10 Years Ago
Oct. 8, 2004
The Grand Marais City Council is still working to refine a new noise ordinance so violators can be successfully prosecuted in court. Sheriff ’s Deputy Mark Falk told the council that the ordinance doesn’t spell out sound levels to define exactly when someone is in violation. Therefore, he said, even if the city does purchase a sound level meter, it wouldn’t be of much use with the ordinance as written.
A woman who deeply loved Grand Marais and the North Shore has been extraordinarily generous to the community. Late last month, three organizations received a $75,000 bequest from Margaret Lacey’s estate. Lacey died at the North Shore Care Center March 27. She was 83.
20 Years Ago
Oct. 10, 1994
A large crowd gathered Oct. 2 at the new Grand Portage State Park for the ribboncutting and grand opening ceremonies. Minnesota’s newest state park is the culmination of coordinated work by the Grand Portage Band of Ojibwe, the Department of Natural Resources, and the DNR’s Division of Parks and Recreation.
The Cook County State Bank on Wisconsin Street in Grand Marais held its grand opening Oct. 3.
Doug Gilchrist of the Grand Marais Snowmobile Club and the Trail Development Association presented a request to the Cook County board Sept. 27 for a $50,000 interestfree loan to buy a new snowmobile trail groomer. The commissioners said they would study the request and consider it at their next meeting.
50 Years Ago
Oct. 8, 1964
Regional Director Lemuel A. Garrison has announced that work will be started late this year to reconstruct the two-centuries-old North West Company stockade at Grand Portage National Monument. Located at the southeastern end of the Grand Portage on the shore of Lake Superior’s Grand Portage Bay, the original post was built by the North West Company in the late 1770s.
There was about an inch of snow on the car tops yesterday morning and temperatures dipped to 30 degrees.
Dale Saethre, Art Blomberg and Dwight Smith, county highway workers, saw a mother lynx and five kits cross the McFarland Road as they were driving along. They got out and chased the animals, catching three of the young ones. Saethre has them in a pen and hopes to sell them. One of the animals bit his finger when he tried to feed it.
90 Years Ago
Oct. 9, 1924
J.S. Ligon, leader of predatory animal control, U.S. Department of Agriculture, has arrived in Minnesota to train men employed by the state Game & Fish Department in methods of controlling predatory animals and undesirable species in localities where they are a menace. He will direct his attention first toward the Superior State Game Refuge and its environs in northeast Minnesota.
David Lind, driving on the North Shore Road near Onion River last Thursday, ran into a black bear and narrowly escaped a serious accident. The car was thrown off the road up against a sand bank. The bear got away.
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