10 YEARS AGO
JUNE 27, 2008
Ground-breaking for North House Folk School’s new milling shop classroom building culminated the 2008 Wooden Boat Show. The new building will add a woodworking classroom to campus. The timeline for construction focuses on the building being ready for programs by spring 2009.
Following a discussion and recap of the year-long process to establish a gravel mine near Thompson Lake, the county board voted 3-1 Tuesday to grant a conditional use permit. The application was submitted last July by Bill Sjoberg for the 20-acre parcel. The site will be accessed off the Devil Track Road and used from May through November. It is estimated 50,000 cubic yards will be mined in two phases over three to five years.
20 YEARS AGO
JUNE 29, 1998
A 55-acre tract of land on a hill overlooking Lake Superior in Tofte will soon see a development with 22 lots dotted among three cul-de-sacs, reminiscent of suburban neighborhoods. Named the Johannes Tote Homestead, the final plat for the subdivision was approved by the Cook County board of commissioners at their June 23 meeting.
A 2½-day trial involving the proposed state snowmobile trail to run from Grand Marais to the Grand Portage reservation border, concluded this week. Plaintiffs sought to prove that the volume of snowmobile traffic on the trail would significantly impair quietude, solitude, the Grand Portage National Monument, habitat for plants and animals, and encroach on protected forests and areas of scientific study. The defendants, the state of Minnesota DNR, disputed those claims. It is now up to the judge to make a decision, due in early September.
50 YEARS AGO
JUNE 27, 1968
A new class has been added to the summer band program. In conjunction to the majorette class, Head Majorette Linda Hedstrom will teach a beginners’ class in baton twirling.
Transporting pulpwood in rafts across Lake Superior from Minnesota to Wisconsin by Consolidated Papers began Saturday, June 22. Ten rafts are scheduled to be towed by the company’s tugboat John Roen III this season.
The long-awaited church pews for Zoar Lutheran Church arrived and were installed by a group of volunteer workers Monday evening. Ever since the church was built in 1963, plans were made to have new pews.
Steve Jacobsen of Los Angeles is here this summer, working at the Standard Station. He is staying at Ray Critchley’s.
90 YEARS AGO
JUNE 28, 1928
Clark H. Carhart, a resident of Cook County for 20 years and sheriff for several terms, has been appointed as prohibition enforcement officer for the U.S. government from Virginia, Minnesota and sent to Chicago. His genial manner and knowledge of psychology may enable him to keep on the good side of the gunmen, who are in the habit of shooting people in a rather promiscuous fashion. Mr. Carhart passed the examination which 90 percent failed to pass, and thus was appointed.
While loading pulpwood Saturday morning Ed Whitney, of Whitney Brothers, was badly hurt by the breaking of the chain which held together a bundle of logs, and the logs rolling against him, breaking a leg and inflicting other injuries. He was hurried to a Duluth hospital.
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