10 Years Ago
Jan. 13, 2006
For the first time in more than 40 years, locally caught Lake Superior trout could be available in supermarkets and restaurants next summer, if a proposal by the Department of Natural Resources gets the nod. Over the past year, the DNR Fisheries office in Duluth has been working with a committee of citizens and stakeholders to draft a 10-year plan for managing the Lake Superior fisheries in Minnesota, and that plan includes opening the door to commercial fishermen.
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is offering a $500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the party responsible for killing a federally-protected Canada lynx near Twig, about 10 miles northwest of Duluth.
20 Years Ago
Jan. 15, 1996
Stung by criticism from irate constituents at their Jan. 10 meeting, the Grand Marais City Council deferred a second reading of a change to a city ordinance dealing with snowmobile use within the city limits. The change, proposed at the Jan. 2 meeting, would have prohibited any snowmobile use in alleys.
At their Jan. 9 meeting the Cook County Economic Development Authority (EDA) got preliminary cost estimates for platting and developing the business park property above County Road 7 in Grand Marais. For the first phase of development, a gravel road plus water and sanitary sewer access would be approximately $202,800. County Commissioner Jim Hall, who sits on the EDA board, said the work would likely not begin before 1998.
50 Years Ago
Jan. 13, 1966
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Larsen of Wedgewood Motel and their three children drove to Florida for the Christmas holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Skoog took their son David to Superior Sunday where he was met by a friend from Ashland. The Skoogs said they found miserable driving conditions in the snowstorm.
A 65-year-old Forest Lake man died Thursday evening when a piece of meat became lodged in his trachea, and before he could be helped he had choked to death. He was having his evening meal downtown when the accident happened. The ambulance was called and the man rushed to the hospital where doctors removed the meat, but he had already expired.
90 Years Ago
Jan. 14, 1926
Thursday of last week one of the trucks of the North Shore Fish & Freight Company caught on fire in the rear. The freight was considerably damaged.
A. Hoyt was injured Thursday night when he fell off a load of hay. One of the wheels ran over his head and two bones in the side of his head and face were broken and his eyes pushed out of socket and seriously injured. Mr. Hoyt is at present in Grand Marais for surgical treatment.
Chas. Purdy of Duluth, who lived in Grand Marais about 10 years ago with his parents, was in town a couple days this week buying fish.
D.O. Staples went to Duluth Saturday, returning Monday on the bus with his 6-year-old daughter from a Duluth hospital where she has been for the past six weeks.
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