10 YEARS AGO · MAY 23, 2003
The Grand Marais Harbor Advisory Committee will have to wait another month before finding out if a safe harbor/ marina can be built on the west side of the harbor. Much of the land is controlled by the Minnesota Land Trust, which has specific rules about what type of development is permitted on the land.
Sarah Hamilton, owner of Trail Center Poplar Lake Lodge on the Gunflint Trail, won the Joel Labovitz Gazelle Enterprise Award this week in Duluth. Hamilton won out over 12 other business owners in northern Minnesota. “Sarah worked alongside her sister as a waitress in the restaurant and both were unable to make a living. They found a silent partner and purchased the resort in 1995. They made changes suggested by their customers, and bought out the silent partner two years later,” according to the announcement of the prize by the University of Minnesota’s Center for Economic Development. The Gazelle Enterprise Award is presented annually to a business owner who has a “principal responsibility for the creation and operation of a business which has demonstrated high growth in revenues and number of employees, profitability and impact on a community or region.”
20 YEARS AGO · MAY 24, 1993
The county board bowed to the persistence of Sheriff John Lyght by authorizing the sheriff to advertise for another permanent full-time deputy. Discussion of Lyght’s repeated request had continued for months, with commissioners searching for ways to reassign or reschedule current staff in the department, and Lyght arguing the need for more manpower because of increased seasonal and transient population along with the resort and motel building that is going on in the county.
The county board has selected TSP Architects and Engineers to provide a study of county administrative building needs, both renovation of the present courthouse and construction of a new building to meet present and future needs. The study of building needs is step 1 toward a full-scale renovation of the historic courthouse, with a plan for a new administrative office building. As long ago as 1983 the county board attempted to undertake such a project, but funding was not available. But now, the need has become crucial.
50 YEARS AGO · MAY 23, 1963
Duluth air base officials have been investigating the mysterious firing of a shell that penetrated Mrs. Florence Woutila’s house at Hovland Monday afternoon. So far there has been no explanation who fired the projectile. Mrs. Woutila found a 3-inch-long shell, ¾ inches in diameter lying on the floor beside the chair which sustained a shattered upholstery. She called Sheriff Emerson Morris who found that the bullet had entered the house about ceiling high. It had made a very small hole where it entered and was hard to find. Mrs. Woutila realized that a thing of this sort had to be investigated, but she added that she didn’t wish to get anyone into trouble as a result.
Miss Judy Anderson resigned her position as teller at the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Fort William and is now employed in the same position at the Northwestern Bank of Commerce in Duluth.
The Lloyd Warns and Harley Rindahls were on a camping trip at the end of the Gunflint Trail last weekend. It was cold and, “No fish.”
Leo Hovland, with a party of 15 fishermen, hit the jackpot with a catch of about 100 fish. A limit of walleyes was caught in Saganaga; limits of trout, northerns, bass and even whitefish in Rose Lake.
90 YEARS AGO · MAY 24, 1923
A week ago last Friday night the Colvill schoolhouse near Lief ’s was burned. The fire was discovered at midnight. The origin of the fire is unknown.
The county trucks started graveling the village streets Monday.
Fred Johnson received a number of Aridor glass candy jars recently which are absolutely sanitary. Drop in and see how the Brazil nuts grow.
John Willman is doctoring one of Olson Bros. sick horses.
George Drake of Colvill was in town Wednesday on his way to the road camp on the north road.
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