10 YEARS AGO
FEB. 1, 2008
A week after debating the pros and cons of maintaining a Gunflint Trail transfer station, the county board voted 3-2 Tuesday to put the site up for sale. The move is aimed at ridding the county of both the responsibility and liability of operating the site, and saving an estimated $40,000-$50,000 annually in lost expenses being used to maintain the station.
Mike Ciresi, DFL candidate for the U.S. Senate, was in Cook County Jan. 23 to meet with voters in Grand Portage, Grand Marais and Tofte.
20 YEARS AGO
FEB. 2, 1998
The Cook County Board of Commissioners voted last week to endorse a resolution to take the timber wolf off the Endangered Species List and allow state and local management of the animal. The vote came at the Jan. 27 meeting after a similar resolution from Koochiching County was discussed. Although there was brief disagreement about the extent of the wolf problem in Cook County, the commissioners seemed disinclined to keep the wolf on the endangered list. Protected since 1973 by federal law, timber wolf numbers have grown statewide. Recently a number of attacks on county dogs have been attributed to the predator.
In an ongoing discussion between the city of Grand Marais and Cook County Sheriff Dave Wirt, the latest figures Wirt has tell him it will cost the city $60,558 per deputy per year for him to take over total coverage of the city. Currently the city has its own police department and pays the county a share of the dispatching service and use of the Law Enforcement Center, but that could change if the city disbands its police department.
50 YEARS AGO
FEB. 1, 1968
Herb White has trapped a total of 15 wolves between Daniels and West Bearskin. Since the wolves moved in there is little evidence of deer in that immediate area.
During the year 1967 there were 26 applications for marriage licenses filed in the Clerk of Courts Office. There were 23 marriages recorded during the prior year.
Paul LeGarde and James Hendrickson were in Bemidji Jan. 11 and 12 attending the regular Tribal Executive meeting.
The H.O. Pitzers, who live in McAllen, Texas, claim that Texas can grow the best grapefruit and they were glad that the recent frost threats didn’t materialize. They hope to come home again for a summer visit in Grand Marais, for last year’s visit was cut short because of Mr. Pitzer’s illness.
Den 2 of the Cub Scouts visited the News-Herald print shop Tuesday after school as part of their January study topic, communications. They also visited the Northwestern Bell Telephone building.
90 YEARS AGO
FEB. 2, 1928
It was decided at a meeting of the firemen last Monday night that they would give a dance at the Wigwam next Saturday night, Feb. 4th, the proceeds of which will be laid aside toward a water pipe line to be added to the present fire equipment. The fire department has long felt the need of such a pipe, which will extend from the fire hall upward to the village hall. At intervals along the pipe hydrants will be installed, from which water may be tapped conveniently at a time when a fire occurs.
The deer that was killed by a car near Tofte Sunday was shipped to the game and fish department in St. Paul.
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