10 Years Ago · July 23, 2001
It was a gracious “no,” but it was a “no.” In a 4-1 vote the members of the school district board voted not to sponsor a charter school at Birch Grove. The turn-down was sweetened somewhat by words directing the superintendent to establish a committee to identify guiding principles for staffing of outlying schools.
The Cook County/Grand Marais Economic Development Authority (EDA) held a special meeting July 17 to discuss the interview process for the 11 applicants for the EDA director’s job. The board eliminated five of the 11 applicants due to the fact that the applicants did not meet the EDA’s minimum requirements for the position. It was decided that the remaining six applicants would be given interviews for the director position.
20 Years Ago · July 22, 1991
Six days after the deadly fire at Windigo Lodge, fire marshals and investigators continued to pore through rubble and interview witnesses for facts about a blaze whose origins are still unknown. Information is slow in coming. As of the News-Herald deadline, the Hennepin County coroner’s office had still not released an official list of the seven victims, though several are known. According to Deputy Dave Wirt, who is investigating the tragedy for the Cook County Sheriff ’s Department, a total of 15 people were in the lodge when the fire began sometime before 4 a.m. on July 12.
In the county’s first-ever ballot by mail, a proposal to raise promotional funds for the Gunflint Trail by charging lodge guests a 2 percent tax has failed to win approval. The vote was 96 yea, 116 no. The turnout was 73 percent of eligible voters.
An air quality permit that will allow LTV Steel Mining Company to operate its three-boiler 225-megawatt steam generating plant at Taconite Harbor, near Schroeder, was approved by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Board July 17. The board also voted to deny a request by a coalition of six environmental groups for a contested case hearing on LTV’s air quality permit. Such a hearing, if granted, could have delayed issuance of the permit for another six months.
50 Years Ago · July 20, 1961
The Atom Construction Company of Grand Marais has announced a groundbreaking for the construction of a new bowling alley, to be located about one mile west of downtown on Highway 61. To be named “Bowla-Vista,” this new recreational and entertainment facility will have the “Gold Crown Line” of pinsetters, ball-returns, lanes and equipment from the Brunswick Corporation.
Six people, all out-of-county residents, have been fined a total of over $650 for violation of the 1958 boat safety law, according to the man in charge of the local U.S. Coast Guard, whose duty it is to check boats and equipment. The violations were for improper numbering, and inadequate and unapproved life-saving devices.
Andrew L. Johnson, who is employed at Lind’s Chevrolet, fractured his kneecap again and was in the local hospital for a time.
90 Years Ago · July 28, 1921
The American Legion ball team of Grand Marais crossed bats with the Lutsen team Sunday, in Chas. A. Nelson’s hay meadow. The Grand Marais boys were the victors, the score being 18-2. A heavy shower interrupted the game, but when the mists had rolled away the game was finished. A collection was taken to pay for lost balls and other paraphernalia.
Stephen J. Napieralski of Chicago was in Grand Marais last week. He is president of one of the mining companies at Gunflint and has arranged to have about 50 or 60 men of Polish extraction visit here in a body next month. Among them will be the minister of finance of Poland.
Teachers’ examinations are being held at the school house during this week.
Two men and a woman were taken from their homes in Birmingham, Alabama, by masked men, placed in an automobile, taken 10 miles into the country, and flogged.
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