10 Years Ago
June 21, 2002
Bill Hansen surprised some people on June 15 when he came away with the DFL endorsement for the 6A House seat at the party’s Senate District endorsing convention held in Two Harbors. Hansen and three other DFL candidates will now square off against Tom Porter, a Republican, for the seat being vacated by Tom Bakk (DFL-Cook). Bakk chose to run for the Senate seat left empty by Doug Johnson, who has retired.
A 51-year-old Crystal, Minn. man died of an apparent heart attack June 14 while on a camping trip with his three children at Clove Lake.
The Grand Marais Planning &
Zoning Board held discussions that could have some fairly major impacts on the future design of Harbor Park in downtown Grand Marais. The board discussed whether or not the current plan for the park fits into the city’s Comprehensive Plan, and then looked at some proposed solutions to parking problems, which could shrink the park by 4 feet.
20 Years Ago
June 22, 1992
Cook County’s four elected officials – the sheriff, county attorney, county recorder and treasurer/ auditor – have notified the board of commissioners they are appealing a decision to freeze their salaries this year. The commissioners froze their own salaries at the 1991 level before the start of the new year. A few weeks ago, they voted to extend that salary freeze to the other elected officials in the county.
GeoScience of Minneapolis was awarded a contract for consulting and construction services for work to be done late this summer in expanding the Cook County landfill on the Gunflint Trail. The firm submitted the lowest of four quotes for the project, totaling $22,750. The expansion will consist of building additional state-approved space for expanding the landfill.
50 Years Ago
June 21, 1962
The local Coast Guard station is undergoing a $54,000 renovation. C.O. Backlund & Sons has the contract and a considerable amount of work to do. However, the completion date is Oct. 30.
John Larson, who will be 100 years old in January, underwent surgery at Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis on Saturday. He had his gallbladder removed.
It’s hard to say how long that arrowhead has been lying on the portage between Clearwater Lake and Mountain Lake, but it was Mrs. Eliot Davis who walked the portage recently and picked it up. A beauty, too.
Thirty-three members of the
Minnesota Geological Society are making a 10-day circle tour of Lake Superior this week. Their chartered bus broke down at Tofte which delayed the trip somewhat and cancelled a side trip up the Gunflint Trail. The group had been interested in visiting the Paulson Mine and the Magnetic Rock.
90 Years Ago
June 22, 1922
Eighty-five people ate dinner at the Maple Hill school house one day last week when the people gathered to be present at the stump pulling demonstration under the auspices of the state. Demonstrations were also held in other parts of the county.
C.P. Craig, a citizen of Duluth, and his daughter Margaret were in Grand Marais Tuesday night, and yesterday left for Port Arthur where Mr. Craig was to meet some Canadian officials and engineers for a conference in regard to the lakes to ocean deep waterway. Mr. Craig spent the winter in Washington state working on the project. Mr. Craig is enthusiastic abut this deep new waterway and says there is no turning back now. It will surely be built and ocean-going vessels will in a few years be calling at Grand Marais.
The city has been filling up the street by the Princess Theater.
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