10 YEARS AGO
APRIL 25, 2003
Grand Marais city councilors said they will consider closing sections of downtown streets for outdoor events this summer. The subject arose as council reviewed an application for the Grand Marais Arts Festival. Much of the discussion involved illegal parking that occurred on the former Standard Station property last year. There were concerns that the vehicles could and would damage monitoring wells on the site.
Calling attention to the need to protect the waters of Lake Superior, a small group of Native American women began a march around the lake Monday, hauling a symbolic copper bucket of lake water as they began their 1,200- mile odyssey in the Bad River Chippewa Indian reservation. The women, members of the Ontario Native Women’s Association, began what they have billed as the “First Annual Woman’s Water Walk” on Odanah because in the culture of the Chippewa, Bad River marks the point at which the great migration of the Anishinaabe people was completed.
20 YEARS AGO
APRIL 26, 1993
A proposed expansion of the privately owned Voyageur Marina at Grand Portage Bay has aroused opposition from the Grand Portage Tribal Council and many individual residents. The expansion project, planned to extend over a 20-year period, would affect an area as large as 11 acres in the bay. Plans include extending an existing dock 200 feet into the bay, straightening up to 700 feet of shoreline, installing four docks with floating fingers attached, and installing a new boat launch ramp and sewage pumpout station. Boat mooring buoys are also proposed. Opposition is focused on potential impacts on the view of the Grand Portage bay, fish and wildlife, water quality, shoreline alteration, cultural and archaeological resources, and public safety on roads and water.
The Grand Marais City Council agreed to donate $500 to support the After Prom party. The funds come from revenue raised by the city’s Municipal Liquor Store. Several other businesses and the county board also made contributions for the all-night party at Harbor Light to follow the May 1 prom.
50 YEARS AGO
APRIL 25, 1963
Ray Hansen of Lutsen is attending Fireman’s Training School in Minneapolis this week.
Mrs. Walter Johnson received a letter recently from her son, Franklin Rabold, who is in France. He was in a parade April 15, in which he was a member of the color guard. He had to wear white gloves, white shoe laces, pistol belt, white scarf and a silver helmet. He expects to be back in the United States in September.
Les Engel says the Veterans Hospital should be located here where “the guys could look out on Lake Superior and get well quick.” Les was a patient for three months and could hardly wait for the day to come home. He arrived home last week and is much better.
The Cook County High SchoolbandreceivedaIrating and the chorus a II rating in the district music contests in Duluth Saturday.
90 YEARS AGO
APRIL 26, 1923
The North Road is open for automobile travel as far north as Road Lake. Three cars have been over the road this week.
Game Warden Green arrived last night on the America with a number of cans of speckle trout fry which were today planted in the creeks near Grand Marais.
Beverly Johnson purchased one of the Bartlet horses Wednesday night. He is now looking for a wagon to go with it.
On Wednesday of last week a 14-year-old boy came up the north shore from Wisconsin. He had run away from home. When he got to Cross River he took a boat and rowed out into Lake Superior till he was out of sight. At night he rowed back to shore and, seeing a light, landed at Carl Nelson’s. The boy was nearly exhausted from hunger and fatigue due to his trip. Mrs. Nelson gave him food and made him comfortable, the sheriff was notified and the boy was brought to Grand Marais. He told a tale of hardship on a Wisconsin farm to which he did not want to return. He has been promised a good home at the Nelsons’ if the Wisconsin authorities will allow him to stay there.
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