10 YEARS AGO
MARCH 24, 2006
For the second time in as many months, the Cook County commissioners Tuesday took no action on a request from the local ATV club to back a resolution in support of opening the state snowmobile trail to off-road vehicles.
If present population trends continue, ISD 166 could be deeply in the red by the year 2009, School Superintendent Chuck Futterer told the school board at its regular meeting on Monday. Tentative revenue and expenditure projections for fiscal years ’06 and ’09, for example, show that the projected budget deficit of $393,000 for FY 2006 would grow to $1.14 million by FY 2009. Decreasing enrollment and static or decreasing state aid are the culprits, Futterer said.
20 YEARS AGO
MARCH 25, 1996
A Wisconsin aircraft pilot landed his Cessna 172 at the closed Tofte airport Thursday afternoon and suddenly found his propeller plowing snow. Misinformed or underinformed, the pilot took off from Madison to join his family at Lutsen for a skiing vacation. The pilot said his January 1996 map showed the Tofte airport as being open, and his flight instructor told him by radio that it was open and operational. The plane progressed approximately 25 yards on 18-24 inches of snow before its landing gear broke through the snow. Then it stood on its nose and plowed a path about 30 feet long before it flipped over and turned its wheels to the sky. The Tofte airport has been closed since 1993. The plane was a total loss.
50 YEARS AGO
MARCH 24, 1966
The 1966 Lions Trout Derby has been cancelled due to poor ice conditions. It is the first time in the nine years the derby has been held that it had to be cancelled. On one occasion the last hour of fishing was cancelled due to water on the ice.
Heard at Edgewater Inn on Saturday night as some tourists were admiring the beautiful spring seed display in the store: “Up here they grow dill pickles from seeds.”
The acquiring of a building for a historical museum for Cook County moved one step closer to reality this week when the University of Minnesota withdrew its request to purchase the building under consideration. The university had expressed its desire to obtain the old light-keeper’s quarters on Broadway for limnology and water quality research.
90 YEARS AGO
MARCH 25, 1926
Anna Freberg came home Saturday from Duluth, where she had an operation for a mastoid abscess.
Adolph Backlund and Einar Allen left yesterday morning for Kemo Lake. They took two dozen herring with them for bait, and in case the fish don’t bite they will still have fish.
J.K. Edwards of Duluth is here soliciting orders for letter heads, the kind of orders that should be left at the local printing office, the proprietor of which buys his groceries and clothing in town.
John Johns, George Webb and Fred St. Jacques arrived here Sunday from Duluth and left Tuesday for Hollow Rock, where they will put up ice and get ready for fishing.
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