10 YEARS AGO
JUNE 22, 2007
Allegations of illegal filling of a wetland in Grand Marais near the harbor have been filed with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. The complaint was forwarded to MPCA by Harbor Friends on June 16. The group alleges the city has been filling in wetland areas in the Grand Marais Rec Park adjacent to the old power plant without the required permits. They claim the site has seen considerable activity at least since 1996 when the conservation easement was put in place – most recently in late May.
At the Schroeder Town Board meeting June 12, Fire Chief Phil Bonin reported that some used fire trucks from Minneapolis are for sale for $40,000. “We could never afford a new one like Tofte, but we maybe could go to the $50,000 range,” he said. The board approved adding a check received from Bluefin Bay for $1,000 to the truck fund.
20 YEARS AGO
JUNE 23, 1997
After nearly a year of planning, the Colvill Fire District is a reality. At the June 10 meeting of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, the new fire district was created by unanimous vote. Early this spring, the county donated a parcel of land on the north side of Highway 61, east of the Kadunce River, to the new fire department.
A 13-year-old boy from St. Louis County was fatally injured in an All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) accident on a logging road near Lake Clara, nine miles north of Lutsen, on June 14. The boy was injured when he was thrown off the rear end of the ATV he was riding on, striking his head on a rock. He died the next day in the intensive care center at St. Mary’s Medical Center, Duluth. According to the sheriff ’s report, the ATV was driven by a 16-yearold who was not identified; a 14-year-old was also riding with the victim on the rack behind the driver’s seat.
50 YEARS AGO
JUNE 22, 1967
The Sheriff ’s Office is still investigating the case of a surprise assault last Saturday night on a Minneapolis woman (and summer resident of Good Harbor Hill), who was severely beaten and bruised before her screams for help were heard by neighbors. Shorty before midnight the victim was awakened by loud pounding on her door and pleas for help because of some alleged accident. Dressing hurriedly and responding to the clamor, she opened the door to be greeted by a torrent of blows about the head and body. The attacker finally fled in his car, which was parked nearby.
Taconite Harbor in Schroeder is the only U.S. port on the Great Lakes reporting an increase in ore shipments through May of this year as compared to the same period in 1966. Shipments of pellets through Taconite Harbor from May 1966 to May 1967 totaled 2,211,480 tons.
90 YEARS AGO
JUNE 23, 1927
Lester Vaughn of Chicago narrowly escaped drowning last Sunday afternoon while on a canoe trip at East Bearskin. He left his cabin early Sunday morning for a canoe trip alone down the lake. The wind caught his canoe, turning it, and as Vaughn changed the position of his paddle to the other side of the canoe, it capsized. He was at the widest place in the lake, between Flower and Crocodile portages. But being an excellent swimmer, instead of clinging to his canoe as is the usual custom, Vaughn swam a half-mile to shore and arrived at a cabin about two and a half hours later.
C.J. Johnson purchased a new white truck this week.
Miss Elizabeth Moore takes her diploma in piano from the McPhail School of Music today.
The herring are coming. They are now at Little Marais.
I.C. Jones, immigration patrolman here, surprised his many friends a few days ago by bringing home a bride. She was, before her marriage, Miss Anne Brendon of Rice Lake, Wis.
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