10 Years Ago ·
Dec. 20, 1999 • At its regular meeting Dec. 8, the Grand Marais City Council unanimously appointed Edward Bolstad to fill the seat left vacant when Alan Christensen resigned from the council on Oct. 27. Christensen had served since February 1999, and had been appointed to fill the seat resigned by councilor Scott Puch. Puch had resigned the position the previous month. • The county commissioners voted to hold a public meeting during tomorrow’s meeting to force the resignations of two of the four county appointees to the Grand Marais/Cook County Economic Development Authority (EDA). The two appointees did not submit their resignations from the EDA when asked after two alleged violations of the Minnesota Open Meeting Law were reported.
The other two appointees did submit their resignations when asked. • Thehistoric Hovland Dock will more likely be restored than rebuilt, a local group working to restore the structure told the county board.
Rebuilding the dock, which was overlaid with concrete decades ago, would be prohibitively expensive. The committee met in November and reviewed the results of an engineering report which focused on recasting the dock in cement.
However, in order to preserve the authenticity of the dock, the committee opted for restoration to the original 1920s state.
It is hoped that the boat ramp and warehouse might be restored using materials salvaged from the old hotel on the shore.
20 Years Ago ·
Dec. 18, 1989 • Construction on the new Lutsen fire hall located at the base of the Caribou Trail is expected to be completed this winter.
The building will have three stalls to house an attack truck, a pump truck and a tank truck. There is also a meeting room that will be used for training of firemen, First Responders and Lutsen Town Board meetings. • A card created by Grand Marais resident Juanita Anderson is being sold by the Salvation Army for the 1989 Christmas season. Proceeds will raise money for shelters for the homeless, food for the hungry and to bring holiday assistance to needy children, families and homebound elderly. • A Grand Marais woman was accidentally involved in a drug bust while visiting Arizona.
While shopping in a mall, the woman became trapped between police and the druggers during the shoot-out that occurred, and was detained at police headquarters for a couple of hours afterward until things were cleared up.
Fortunately, she was not hurt.
50 Years Ago ·
Dec. 17, 1959 • Themystery of a Grand Marais High School class ring is cleared up.
The Esko High School sent a ring to Principal Leonard Sobanja, asking him to find its owner. It had a class date of 1929 and the initials G.L. inscribed. Upon checking high school records, he found there was a Goldie Lundquist in that class to correspond with the initials.
Sobanja contacted the Gordon Lundquists, who sent the ring to Mrs. Lyle Ellis in Black Duck, Minn.
Sobanja does not know whether the ring was in Esko all that time, or whether it was lost there recently. • A training camp for the Junior Alpine skiers of the Central United States Ski Association has been arranged by Howard Joynes, chairman of the Junior Alpine division in Minnesota and northern Wisconsin. The training period will be from Saturday of this week to next Wednesday.
Bill Owen, former Olympics great from Canada, will be the head coach. He will be assisted by Lyden MacIntosh, another noted ski figure. • Thefairly good snowfall has made it possible to open Sawtooth for skiing this weekend.
The manager has announced that there will be free skiing Saturday and Sunday. The former “free weekend” did not materialize when it rained and thawed.
90 Years Ago ·
Dec. 17, 1919 • Frozen noses is not such an unusual sight these days. • The press of the state, principally the country publisher, is facing a crisis in a growing scarcity of print paper, not to mention a skyward leap in the price of everything used in his profession.
The latter he can partially overcome by an increase in the price of what he has to sell (for example, an advance in subscription to $2 a year), but he is truly up against it in the matter of a paper shortage.
The situation is so serious that the temporary suspension of publication faces some publishers, and quite a number are contemplating a reduction in the size of their papers. • Thezoology class dissected the squid and river mussel last week. • Thata meteor of tremendous size plunged into Lake Michigan causing earth tremors felt in a dozen southern Michigan cities and sending a pillar of flame hundreds of feet into the air, which was visible for a radius of more than 50 miles, was the theory generally accepted in explanation of the earth shocks which at first were believed to have been caused by a terrific explosion at some industrial plant.
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