10 YEARS AGO
OCT. 10, 2003
Environmental groups filed suit last week in U.S. District Court challenging a federal decision lowering the status of the gray wolf from endangered to threatened in the continental United States. The complaint seeks a judgment declaring that the Department of the Interior and the Fish and Wildlife Service were arbitrary and capricious in issuing the rule and that the rule violated the Endangered Species Act, and seeks an injunction against Fish and Wildlife against implementing the rule.
The Mountain Iron-Buhl Rangers spoiled the Cook County Vikings’ homecoming last Friday by a score of 54-26. Selected as homecoming royalty were Bryan Dean as king, and Andrea Hopperton as queen.
Grand Marais folk artist Lyle Saethre has finished the mural on the south wall of the Beaver House. The large mural includes a beaver dam and wolves, a mama bear and cubs, a moose and lots of other animals as well as trees and ponds, and a long-toothed animal not often (if ever) found above the Mason-Dixon Line.
20 YEARS AGO
OCT. 11, 1993
Fire Thursday morning Oct. 7 burned two cabins to the ground at Cascade Lodge west of Grand Marais. Both were unoccupied and the fire caused no injuries.
Plans are drawn and a financing package is being built for an 18-unit deluxe and luxury motel addition to the East Bay Hotel in downtown Grand Marais. Contingent on financing, the building could be under construction as early as Nov. 1, 1993.
Cook County High School seniors Betsy Hedstrom and Kris Osthus were named homecoming king and queen Oct. 6.
50 YEARS AGO
OCT. 10, 1963
The local hospital had a busy day last Saturday with a car accident, a woods accident and a bandsaw accident on their hands, along with more routine matters. A five-car smash-up on Highway 61 was the biggest incident. It sent two carloads of injured to the hospital, while occupants of the other three cars were taken to Two Harbors. Among them, there were three broken wrists, a dislocated knee cap, lacerations and contusions, a broken nose and a concussion.
A hunting trip nearly ended in tragedy for three Wisconsinites when one of the party apparently went berserk and attempted to strangle one of his companions whom he had known for several years. The three had traveled by auto from Janesville en route to Canada and were nearing Mineral Center when after they stopped the car, the man began talking irrationally and threatened to kill his companions. Before officers could arrive, the man had seized one of his companions by the throat and was banging his head against the pavement. The officers were assisted by a passing U.S. Border Patrol officer, who rendered the berserk man semi-conscious to a degree that he could be handcuffed. He was taken to the hospital and given a sedative. He later pleaded guilty to assault and was fined $50. No medical treatment was needed for the victim.
90 YEARS AGO
OCT. 11, 1923
Aug. J. Johnson is painting the courthouse window frames.
Paul Winters has resigned his position as driver on the mail bus from Duluth to Grand Marais.
The Campbell-Ames Company steam shovel broke through the Kimball Creek bridge Tuesday, delaying traffic for about four hours.
John Jacobsen of Hovland has returned from a trip to Isle Royale where a group was employed in opening up a pit of some prehistoric man. They uncovered a number of relics of the stone age.
The state Highway Department began work today on a railing on the side of the road east of Grand Marais where Fred Bramer’s car turned over Tuesday night.
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