10 Years Ago
June 25, 2004
A California man who allegedly tried to smuggle more than $100,000 in cash into Canada at Grand Portage has been indicted by a federal grand jury. He was charged with conspiracy to smuggle bulk cash and smuggling bulk cash.
Soil contaminated with diesel fuel and gasoline was found when Wisconsin Street in front of Fireweed Commons was dug up last week in the city’s streetscape project. The soil was tested and it was found that the material exceeded Minnesota Pollution Control Agency guidelines. The soil was removed, and the rest was returned to the ground. An MPCA spokesman said the recommended method to handle the low-level contamination is to disturb it as little as possible.
Howard Sivertson of Grand Marais was honored (and pleasantly surprised) last week when he was told that he had been selected by the people in the Twin Ports as “Best Artist.” The YATA (Youth Access to the Arts) awards were announced at a gala gathering at the Norshor Theater in Duluth last week, but Sivertson couldn’t attend – he was working at his Canadian studio in Pine Bay, Ontario.
20 Years Ago
June 27, 1994
A blaze outside the planing mill at Hedstrom Lumber Company last Monday was quickly doused before it could do any damage. No cause was known for the fire, which was discovered by an employee who called the firefighters and also put a hose on the blaze.
Work is now fully under way on the Gunflint Trail project from the Trout Lake Road north to Northern Light Lake, a distance of about five miles.
Mallard and blue-winged teal breeding populations increased substantially in Minnesota this spring according to results from the annual waterfowl breeding survey. The mallard breeding population this spring is estimated at 426,000 birds, an increase of 39 percent over last year. Blue-winged teal, which make up about one-third of Minnesota’s breeding ducks, increased 48 percent to 385,000 birds. The population is 46 percent above the 10-year average.
50 Years Ago
June 25, 1964
Three cheers for young Joe McCauley of the Taconite Yanks. He pitched a perfect no-hit game against the Grand Marais Eagles. We are all proud of him. A Whitey Ford in the making!
Flowers have been placed in the planter at the public library, at the Village Triangle at the west entrance of town, at the North Shore Hospital, and in the window boxes at the information booth, courtesy of the Grand Marais Garden Club. Another project, the hanging baskets of flowers in the downtown streets, will be done next week.
The seventh annual issue of the Come-See Review, a Chamber of Commerce information sheet, is now coming off the press at the News-Herald office. Thirty thousand are being printed this year, all in bright new colors and full of information about the entire area. The purpose of the little sheet is to keep the visitor informed of local places and doings, to get him interested and occupied while here.
90 Years Ago
June 26, 1924
There will be a celebration at the mouth of the Brule River on the lake shore July 4th. You are invited to go and take your dinner along in a basket.
George Mayhew, game warden, arrested Swamper Carriboo and Leonce Zimmerman on Tucker Lake last Thursday for trapping beaver.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Lewis of Lutsen were visitors in Grand Marais this week. They live 12 miles from the shore.
Court is in session. It is a time when neighbors who quarrel have their differences adjudicated, and the combats furnish spice to many otherwise monotonous lives. But the real important sequence of the week to those not involved in controversy will soon pass. Because now other interests, such as are brought by the highway – automobiles and tourists – to vie with the formerly all-absorbing numbers on the court calendar, the rank and file are not so prone as in other days to put on their glad rags and suspend all other business. True, the courtroom is fairly well filled, but the attendance no longer includes the whole population – there are now too many of us.
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