10 Years Ago | May 21, 2001
The county board voted to purchase a portable scale system that will be used to enforce weight limits on trucks and other oversized vehicles. Highway Engineer Chuck Schmit explained that the Highway Department frequently receives complaints about overweight vehicles traveling county roads, especially when spring weight restrictions are put in place. However, neither the Sheriff ’s Department nor the Highway Department has the means to weigh the trucks and enforce the law. The four-scale system will cost $8,060.
Moose hunting will resume in northeastern Minnesota this fall for the first time since 1999. The 2000 northeast Minnesota moose hunt was canceled as an efficiency measure during a time of budget and staff shortages. The northwest Minnesota moose hunt has been closed since 1997 because of low populations.
20 Years Ago | May 20, 1991
Forest Service personnel from the Gunflint District picked a hot Monday afternoon to plant white pine seedlings beneath the towering Gunflint Pines. The 500 seedlings, picked for their special blister rust resistance, will help the natural regeneration taking place.
Continuing the 22-year tradition of the North Shore Art Fair, the first annual Grand Marais Arts Festival will be held July 13 and 14.
Two Duluth men have been arraigned in Lake County on multiple charges of taking more than their limit of rainbow trout and transporting dressed fish. The men were arrested in Lake County following an extensive surveillance by the DNR on April 20 and 21. The men were observed working Rosebush Creek, Cutface Creek and Kadunce Creek in Cook County. When arrested, the men were in possession of nine wild rainbows ranging in size from 21 inches to 29 inches. The limit is one rainbow each over 16 inches.
50 Years Ago | May 18, 1961
Luckily for two fishermen that Leonard Sobanja and George Appel heard their cries for help after their boat had “swamped” while fishing at the Fowls last Saturday. One of the men in the water had a life jacket and the other couldn’t swim. Their names were not learned. Sobanja and Appel had only a canoe, so the best they could do was to tow the men ashore. The two rescuers caught their limit of walleyes despite the interruption.
By a total decisive vote of 707 to 336, the voters of Cook County defeated a proposed $775,000 bond issue for School District 166 Tuesday. The funds were aimed to enlarge the local high school building, already becoming cramped, and to build a new elementary school at Tofte. The present school at Tofte was built around 1914.
Mr. and Mrs. Parke D. Robinson enjoyed a two-month vacation in Florida. They rented a trailer and think that is the ideal way to vacation there. One thing that amused them at this park were the many parakeets in a variety of colors that flew at will from feeder to feeder.
90 Years Ago | May 19, 1921
Through the efforts of Arthur Mitchell a company has taken hold of the properties in the northern part of the county. An Illinois corporation has purchased the Port Arthur furnace which was built to smelt the ore from the Antikoken Range, and have 50 men working near the Paulson mine. There is a considerable amount of merchantable ore available for immediate shipment as soon as mined, the iron being at or near the earth’s surface. The old Port Arthur & Gun Flint Railroad is being repaired and extended to the base of the operations to be used in development of the properties. Mr. Mitchell is anxious to have the Gun Flint Road to Grand Marais finished so that supplies and equipment can be hauled north from Grand Marais, and expressed a desire to have it finished this summer. Practical mining men are agreed that this project will be successful.
Ten thousand people, says a statistician, were killed in the United States by motor vehicles in 1918. Unless something is done to counteract this growing danger of the times, fatalities will become appalling. The speed-driven motor vehicle is a peril in the public streets which is increasingly hard to avoid, since the tendency of drivers is to put all the responsibility for accident on the pedestrian, and leave no margin for safety of the latter.
A number of the high school girls went on a hike up to the Bluff Sunday and gathered many flowers.
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