10 YEARS AGO
MARCH 10, 2006
Swedish master musician and teacher Leif Alpsjo will visit Grand Marais March 16-17, and will conduct a master’s class with middle school students. He will meet with the students at the middle school, and also give a presentation at Great Expectations School.
Wonder what’s going on with all the bumpy roads in Cook County? You’re not alone – everyone seems to be talking about them these days. The road between Grand Marais and the border is so “wavy” in spots that vehicles are forced to slow down to 25 mph. A spokesman for the state Department of Transportation said such problems are occurring statewide and are created because of radical temperature extremes; water expands and freezes in the cracks in the road, forcing that portion to heave, thus creating “tents” or “waves” in the road.
20 YEARS AGO
MARCH 11, 1996
The U.S. Postal Service is planning to relocate the Tofte Main Post Office and is advertising for a site for a new facility, or an existing building with approximately 1,000 square feet. The preferred location is within the town of Tofte.
The Cook County Sheriff ’s Department is investigating the theft of a snowmobile and other suspicious activities possibly involving the same suspects in Tofte between Feb. 19 and 27.
Presidential hopeful Pat Buchanan took the majority of the votes cast by Cook County participants in the Independent Republican caucuses on March 5. Attendance was 42 people countywide.
50 YEARS AGO
MARCH 10, 1966
Robert Riley, the first historian at the Grand Portage National Monument, and his family will leave today to go to his new assignment and advancement to Morristown National Historical Park in New Jersey. The Rileys came here in June 1962.
Twenty inches of snow that fell Friday and more Saturday “marooned” several South Fowl fishermen for several days. In fact, they were unable to get back to Grand Marais until Tuesday morning.
The Maple Hill milk delivery service got an assist from Edward Hedstrom and his snowmobile during the storm. He volunteered to go over the drifts to the various homes to get the orders for the day, and in short order was back to deliver the dairy products.
90 YEARS AGO
MARCH 11, 1926
Elwood Johnson has gone to Minneapolis, where he will do some work in English to better fit him for West Point. He will take an examination next month.
W.J. Forsythe & Co. brought a large snow plow from Duluth the other day and have plowed the road to the Maple Hill camps. Hauling has been resumed.
Herman Anderson was arrested for being intoxicated last Friday. He was to have been committed to jail for 90 days, but got away from the officer while the commitment papers were being made and has not yet been apprehended.
C.O. and Adolph Backlund are trapping. Last week they brought in three wolves, and they have another one to their credit thus far this week.
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