10 YEARS AGO
JUNE 2, 2006
For the first time in more than 35 years, a sitting governor came to Cook County this week, and, if the community’s response was any indication, interest was very high. Gov. Tim Pawlenty flew into the Grand Marais- Cook County Airport shortly after 7 a.m. May 26, had a working breakfast with community leaders, toured the airport and school, broadcast his weekly radio show, and then threw a shovelful of dirt at the business park groundbreaking before flying out at noon to Duluth and then on to the Metrodome to sign the bill authorizing a new Twins ball park.
Four counts of felony first degree criminal damage to property have been filed against four juveniles in conjunction with damages against properties at the Grand Portage Marina. The action came after the foreman of a construction crew discovered severe damage and smashed windows to an excavator located at the marina. A boat was also broken into, as well as the marina office and restrooms. The damage was estimated at $1,500.
20 YEARS AGO
JUNE 3, 1996
The new Thunder Bay Visitor Information Centre was opened May 27 with an official ribboncutting by Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
A new Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) will be installed in the park area west of the breakwall in Grand Marais this summer. One of 850 ASOS units to be installed nationwide, the weather station will be part of the primary weather observing network in the United States. The new system replaces the manually operated base now on the Coast Guard property in Grand Marais, a site that is questionable due to some vagaries of ownership. The new system is about the same height as the old (33 feet), but much less bulky.
50 YEARS AGO
JUNE 2, 1966
Ollor Snevets had the misfortune of breaking his left arm last week while working on logs for cabin construction. He was using a cant hook when his hands slipped and he lost his balance and fell backward. The natural instinct was to try to break his fall by reaching back, and his left arm must have been in a position that put his entire weight on that arm. Both bones were broken.
Seventy acres of wilderness country was blackened and scarred from a forest fire that ran wild northwest of Tofte on the Parent Lake Road Tuesday. It was under control by 8:30 p.m. but mop-up operations continued through the next day.
90 YEARS AGO
JUNE 3, 1926
O.B. Salstrand and Edward Nelson are opening up a resort on Poplar Lake, three miles west of the Hungry Jack Road. They are starting with a dozen boats. They will have boats on Winchell Lake, so that it will not be necessary to portage canoes. Winchell is one of the best fishing lakes for land-locked salmon. Meals will be served at all hours. The place is open for business now.
Two canvas signs 40 feet wide by 6 feet high are to be erected at the east and west entrances to Grand Marais on International highway. Lake Shore Telephone Company donated the poles and cables.
C.O. Johnson went north today to start road work. Frank Kimball went along as cook.
Fred Brouilette is employed at Toftey’s store for the summer.
P.F. Quackenbush of Duluth was fishing at Gunflint Lake Sunday.
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