10 Years Ago
Sept. 2, 2005
Two carnival workers broke into the heating plant at the high school Aug. 26 and made off with two electrical starters for boilers worth approximately $500. The pair were apparently unaware that their theft was being recorded by at least one surveillance camera which had been recently installed by ISD 166. When the break-in was reported Friday morning, it was relatively easy for law enforcement to find the duo, given the fact that one man was heavily tattooed and both were working the fair rides a half-block away from the crime scene. The two were arrested and are awaiting arraignment in Lake County.
If the City of Grand Marais and the Department of Natural Resources develop a safe harbor/marina plan, the DNR could begin working on it as early as 2008. But, said a DNR official, “we aren’t trying to take a particular design and shove it down anybody’s throats. We’re hopeful to come to a reasonable consensus by 2008.”
20 Years Ago
Sept. 4, 1995
The Grand Marais City Council passed a motion Aug. 30 to maintain the city’s police department separate from the county sheriff ’s department. City police staff, city councilors and citizens whose opinions were asked voiced concerns about possible reduced patrol coverage in the city if the departments merged.
The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved a zoning ordinance amendment that creates a Light Business Development Area zone district. The amendment requires a minimum lot area of two acres if it has individual sewage treatment systems, none if on public sewer and water.
50 Years Ago
Sept. 2, 1965
On Sept. 6, historical plaques commemorating the Grand Portage will be unveiled at two locations on the Pigeon River. It is noteworthy that one of them will be located at Grand Portage National Monument in Minnesota, the first Ontario government plaque to be erected in the United States. The other will be located in Middle Falls Park, Ontario, about a mile west of Highway 61.
An 18-year-old Minneapolis boy was spotted cutting trees at the Flour Lake campground and was taken before Judge Norris Hystad. He was fined $10 for his thoughtless actions. This should serve as a warning to other campers who become “ax-happy” and want to start felling live trees in the campgrounds. However, this boy’s fine was not as hard on him as the lecture he received from the judge!
90 Years Ago
Sept. 3, 1925
After valiantly battling against death since she was shot 11 weeks ago by a crazed lover, Miss Evelyn Amyotte, aged 20, of Grand Marais, died Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock at St. Mary’s Hospital. The body was brought to Grand Marais last night on the steamer America and the funeral service was held this morning at 9 o’clock in the Catholic church. Miss Amyotte was shot through the breast by John Lampert, aged 25, brakeman, in a tenement house at 704 W. Second St. on June 15. Lampert then shot himself, dying instantly.
Congressman “Bill” Carrs and wife of Proctor spent the night in Grand Marais and left this morning for Port Arthur and Fort William. They will stop on the way back. Mr. Carrs says he will work for a life-saving station to be established at Grand Marais. He said it has been voted but the money has not been appropriated.
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