10 YEARS AGO
AUG. 24, 2007
Community volunteers, city council members and former North House Folk School students crafted a unique resource for the city of Grand Marais – hand-crafted timbered benches for downtown. The bench project was launched by the folk school as part of its 10th anniversary celebration. Director Greg Wright said the donation of the benches to the city acknowledges the community’s generous support of North House during its early years.
Schroeder supervisors declined a request to support a joint wastewater management pilot project by Cook County and the Tofte-Schroeder Sanitary Sewer District. The project would build on a septic survey conducted last year to create a countywide information database about septic systems linked to GPS data and property IDs. It is estimated that the county has 4,000 systems; a recent survey found a 40 percent non-compliance rate in the Tofte-Schroeder district.
20 YEARS AGO
AUG. 25, 1997
The 1997 Cook County Fair attracted 63 exhibitors who entered a total of 413 items. This surpassed the 1996 count of 348 exhibits by 55 entrants.
Newly-laid sod at Bear Tree Park on Wisconsin Street, overlooking the harbor, was pulled up and thrown into the fountain, according to the Grand Marais Street Department’s report to police on July 6.
A Grand Marais resident was stung by a bee on July 24 while working with a Department of Natural Resources trail crew at Temperance River State Park. He is allergic to bee sting venom and did not have his bee sting kit with him, so he was taken by ambulance to the North Shore Hospital for treatment.
50 YEARS AGO
AUG. 24, 1967
The Cook County Fair is now open to the general public and large crowds are expected to see the exhibits this year. There are 939 entries, which are well set off by the newly improved buildings.
District Judge Mark Nolan, 65, was killed in Duluth last Friday night about midnight when he was struck by a car as he was crossing a street on foot. Judge Nolan had presided at the Cook County District Court sessions here many times and was the senior judge in the district.
Theresa Girten, 12, of Franklin Grove, Ill., will probably have to stay in the local hospital about two weeks after she was quite badly burned last Wednesday when her father’s car was struck from behind by another vehicle as the former had stopped for a tarring project on Highway 61 east of the “Rock Cut.”
90 YEARS AGO
AUG. 25, 1927
Lloyd Ojard was fatally injured when a large Packard car on the way to Duluth struck and almost instantly killed him last Saturday afternoon. Lloyd was playing on the Knife River bridge at 4:30 in the afternoon when the accident occurred. The occupants of the car picked him up and took him to the Two Harbors hospital, but he was dead before they reached there. Lloyd is the 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Haaken Ojard of Hovland.
The telephone lines were put completely out of order at Toftereadingandmath.the first of the week,net on account of somebody stoning the insulators. This is very serious and must not be repeated.
– A.M. Fenstad
G.A. Peterson of Two Harbors is at Mineral Center repairing the state highway trucks this week.
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