10 Years Ago
Sept. 24, 2004
Taxpayers in Cook County will pay less school taxes next year, Superintendent Chuck Futterer told the school board Sept. 20. “We anticipate the local tax levy will be reduced approximately nine percent,” Futterer said, adding that the figures won’t be finalized until December.
Line superintendent Mike Taylor reported to the city’s PUC that crews have replaced several transformers this year in order to meet a Sept. 30 deadline from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. MPCA identified 14 transformers that were likely to contain PCBs, and the PUC received $11,000 in August for these transformers. The Grand Marais PUC is required to test all transformers for PCBs.
20 Years Ago
Sept. 26, 1994
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers tugs and rock barges moved into port last week to start a three-week project reinforcing the breakwall with more rocks.
Test results on water samples from seven residential wells in the immediate vicinity of the old ash pile at Taconite Harbor showed five of them have elevated levels of boron.
Dorie and Steve Carlson have had raccoons in their corn. Much caterwauling was heard outside, and peeled and eaten corn husks were found in the corn patch the following mornings. Also on Maple Hill, Dorothy Krotz heard the mountain lion near her house recently, adding to the ever-growing list of people who have encountered the animal.
50 Years Ago
Sept. 24, 1964
Kemo Lake is temporarily closed to fishing as the conservation department has poisoned the perch in the lake. It will be restocked.
Clark Kennedy, a businessman running for the 61st state Senate seat, has proposed that the headquarters of Isle Royale National Park be transferred from Houghton, Michigan to Grand Portage. “Now that the new route of U.S. Highway 61 goes through Grand Portage, I’m sure our federal government can service Isle Royale more efficiently and economically from the Minnesota side,” he said.
It was this past week that someone shot a large bull moose on the Clearwater Road and left it to die, and a summer home owner on Gunflint Lake, trolling recently for trout, snagged a set line 1,000 feet long containing hooks that were spaced about a foot apart. Perhaps it was thought these actions would be approved and included under the current program of multiple use!
90 Years Ago
Sept. 25, 1924
The wind storm Monday night blew down a sign at the Service Garage, breaking two plate glass windows valued at $125.
O.B. Soderling, foreman of construction at the school house, cut his finger on the rip saw Tuesday. First aid was administered. The patient is still on duty, nevertheless it was a bad cut.
P.J. Bayle and his crew are building a new telephone line into Devil Fish Lake. They are also cutting trails.
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