10 Years Ago
March 3, 2006
ISD 166 agreed to accept $200,000 for the Birch Grove Community Center and 6.5 acres surrounding it or $360,000 for the community center and an approximately 35-acre parcel at its regular school board meeting Monday night. The deal, which has taken months of negotiations, must be ratified at the Tofte Township annual meeting March 14, and it does not include the $30,000 the school district will deduct from the sale price to upgrade the septic system.
The Whole Foods Co-op has purchased the Good Harbor Hill Bread Company, which has been producing artisan breads for the community in the Fireweed Building in Grand Marais. The bakery will stay at its present location until an addition is built at the co-op to house it and an expanded deli kitchen. The addition is expected to be completed by the end of summer.
20 Years Ago
March 4, 1996
Steve and Becky Fernlund of Grand Marais are the new owners and publishers of the Cook County News-Herald. They purchased the newspaper from Jack and Patti Becklund, who owned and published it since 1989. The Fernlunds are the eighth owners of the paper in its 105 years of existence. The News-Herald is the oldest commercial enterprise in Cook County.
Karen Blackburn took over Feb. 20 as executive director of the Cook County Economic Development Authority. No stranger to Cook County, she has spent many summers working at Sawbill Canoe Outfitters. Blackburn said that her past economic development experience was the same kind of job she now has with the EDA, just in the private sector instead of a public agency.
50 Years Ago
March 3, 1966
Big Bay is frozen over and it’s a beautiful sheet of clear ice. The kids are having a “ball.” Last Sunday everyone was on the ice, both big and small. Many a tumble, but much laughter. John Koss outdoes them all. He puts on his skates and goes out to his nets. He and his son Kenneth are putting up ice today.
Skiers’ clothes left to dry too close to the heating unit are thought to have started the fire in one of the units at Fenstad’s Motel last Saturday evening. The room was badly damaged.
Mrs. Leroy Garner’s Camp Fire Girls visited the News-Herald building after school yesterday to see this week’s issue of the paper being printed.
90 Years Ago
March 4, 1926
Gilford Nelson had his foot hurt the first of the week when a log rolled on it.
Richard Berg had a large cake of ice fall on his foot yesterday, incapacitating him for work temporarily.
Two St. Paul police patrolmen were shot and killed by unidentified gunmen. The patrolmen were shot down while engaged in a citywide hunt for two bandit gangs which terrorized the residence district of the city and held up and robbed seven stores and homes in three hours. Leaping from an automobile as the two officers lay mortally wounded in the street, a gunman walked from one to the other, fired five shots into their heads, and jumped back into his car and fled.
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