10 YEARS AGO
JULY 25, 2008
Trucks loaded with asphalt lined up as Fifth Street finally got paved. Last week the base layer went down, and by the end of the week the final lift is expected to be on. Nearly a year in the doing, the project will be finished.
Gypsy moth treatment started Monday morning, but a little later than was planned due to fog that grounded a fleet of yellow “air tractors” at the county airport. Five blocks are to be treated, totaling a little more than 80,000 acres (125 square miles). The U.S. Forest Service contracts an aerial spraying company out of Ovid, Mich. for these jobs. They have four planes and two tractor-trailers that haul everything needed to do the job.
20 YEARS AGO
JULY 27, 1998
A number of fires have started inside the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, said U.S. Forest Service staff at the Gunflint Ranger District in Grand Marais. The fires are the result of several lightning storms which passed through the area on July 14, but none of them are deemed serious.
An unidentified man and his son were rescued from the Devil’s Kettle grotto on the Brule River on Sunday, July 19. A witness said she had hiked up the first bank on the path and was sitting on a rock above the upper falls, when she noticed a guy under the Devil’s Kettle. “I thought it was strange he was standing there. There is no path over there. I looked away, and when I looked back, all of a sudden, he was in the water, struggling,” she recalled.
50 YEARS AGO
JULY 25, 1968
At a special congregational meeting on June 30 the members of First Congregational Church approved the preliminary plans for their new church building. The plan stresses multi-functional usage of space with special emphasis on small group meetings, Christian education and youth work.
Charlie Boostrom fell from a scaffolding recently while working on a cabin. One broken rib and three cracked ones was the result. Charlie remarked that if he had built his own scaffolding it never would have happened but it was one of the newfangled metal ones that pulled away from the building and collapsed.
90 YEARS AGO
JULY 26, 1928
Theodore Tofte, who was the victim of a baseball accident last Sunday, has recovered without any serious effect resulting. He was struck in the forehead by the ball while batting, immediately losing consciousness.
Struck by a car with a hit-and-run driver, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Drouillard of Chippewa City were injured while walking on the road between here and their home. Efforts are being made to find the driver of the car.
Chas. Olson cut his ankle badly while chopping wood at Gunflint Lake Tuesday.
Joe Zerback has resigned as lookout at the Grand Marais tower and Wm. Martin has been appointed to take the place. The change was made Tuesday. Mr. Zerback will fish.
Mrs. J. Hussey returned Saturday from Stratton, Ontario, where she visited for a week with a cousin she had not seen for 40 years.
Miss Betsy Johnson is now employed at the Arrowhead Café.
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