10 YEARS AGO
JULY 11, 2008
The Fourth of July weekend on the North Shore was marred by tragedy Friday night when a pedestrian was struck and killed as he was crossing Highway 61 near the Coho Café in Tofte. The driver who struck the 23-year-old Nebraska man was arrested and charged with criminal vehicular homicide after alcohol use was detected.
EDA board members have set a date for a special meeting to decide whether to proceed with development at Sawtooth Cottages. That project has been in limbo since early June when EDA members expressed concerns about the financial feasibility of installing infrastructure in the development. The special meeting is set for July 21.
20 YEARS AGO
JULY 13, 1998
The commissioners room at the courthouse was packed last Tuesday night as a standing-room-only crowd of citizens turned out to hear the official rationale for closing the county landfill. Billed as a meeting to explain why the county commissioners voted to close the facility, the nearly three-hour session ended without a firm sense of what will become of the landfill, the county’s trash or the legal tangle and fines that have befallen the county due to chronic violations of state regulations in the operation of the landfill.
Isle Royale National Park Superintendent Douglas Barnard has announced the award of a $1.8 million contract to Bay Shipbuilding Company of Sturgeon Bay, Wis., for rehabilitation of the M.V. Ranger III, the park’s 648- ton, 165-foot ferry vessel. The award culminates a fiveyear planning process that included an in-park study to determine the most cost efficient way to continue to provide logistical support to Isle Royale.
50 YEARS AGO
JULY 11, 1968
Seven young persons, three over 18 and four juveniles, were arrested in a cabin on Little Devil’s Track River last Friday by Sheriff Emerson Morris and deputies on charges of possessing marijuana. Charges were dismissed on two of the juveniles, but a third was sent to the State Youth Conservation Camp. The over-18 youths will appear at a hearing before Judge Henry Eliasen July 18. They are out on bail.
A grant of $14,776 was approved by the Interior Department in Washington for the boating facility in the Grand Marais harbor. Formerly, a grant of $8,692.20 had been approved by the Upper Great Lake Regional Commission toward the marina facility. The total cost of the project is expected to be roughly $30,000, with government grants supplying 90 percent of the amount. The new facilities will include a 200- foot dock with walkway and lights, launching ramp, sanitary lift pump and related facilities.
The big fish story hereabouts this week is the luck of Ben Larsen, Duluth, who caught three lake trout. He went out on Clearwater Lake at 7 a.m. and caught a 14-pounder; went back out at 8 a.m. and came back with a 16 ½-pounder; and again at 10 o’clock he caught a 30-pounder!
90 YEARS AGO
JULY 12, 1928
Kentucky crops are said to be in danger of devastation of an army of rats. These rodents must be descendants of the one who ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built.
Spencer Ficklin is tearing down his old building.
Miss Lucille Dickey of the No-See-Um Lodge at Lutsen spent Tuesday of this week in Duluth.
Mr. Tibbets has closed his barber shop and is now operating a bus line between here and Gunflint Lake.
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