Mrs. Andrea Peterson, left, teacher at Grand Portage Elementary School, and Mrs. Karen Nelson, curator of the Kerland Collection of children’s books at the University of Minnesota, presented a workshop on children’s literature on Jan. 21, 1974. Here, Mrs. Peterson shows her guest some of the articles and pictures she collected to give additional information to the children in grades 1-3 about Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the “Little House” books. The workshop included a slide show, discussion and old-time articles and photos of the time period focusing on Wilder and her books. Cook County News-Herald archives
10 YEARS AGO
AUG. 15, 2008
The Grand Portage community has announced that an application to open a Charter School on the Grand Portage Reservation has been approved by the Minnesota Department of Education. The new charter school will be called Oshki Ogimaag (translating into “the school of new leaders”) and is a K-6 school of choice sponsored by the Audubon Center of the Northwoods.
Members of the Cook County Highway Department were recognized Tuesday by the county board for their outstanding efforts in restoring the local road network in the wake of the June 6 record rainfall. Each of the workers was presented a “certificate of excellence” during the meeting in appreciation of their “dedication, expertise and long hours they put in” after the 6-inch storm left behind nearly $3 million worth of damages to county roadways, culverts and ditches.
20 YEARS AGO
AUG. 17, 1998
Paul Shaeffer, assistant county attorney for less than a year, has resigned to take a fulltime job closer to where his wife works. Cook County Attorney Bill Hennessy told the county commissioners last week that Shaeffer, the first assistant county attorney hired by Cook County, will leave in September.
The historic Hovland dock came one step closer to resurrection last week when the county commissioners unanimously approved spending $6,800 for an engineering study to assess the cost and method of restoring the structure. As a county-owned property, the Hovland dock has been eyed as a legitimate restoration project ever since East End residents began to lobby for its salvation last year.
50 YEARS AGO
AUG. 15, 1968
A law enforcement communications center has been established for the use of the county sheriff ’s department and the village police department. The dispatch office is located in the Village Municipal Building and has nearly full-time coverage for telephone, radio and teletype communication. Four dispatchers have been employed to operate the system. With the installation of this center, any person may telephone the sheriff or police at almost any hour of the day or night.
Mrs. Gust Johnson was attacked by a wild fisher Tuesday morning. She was just coming out of one of the cabins on Greenwood Lake with an armful of laundry when the animal, about 10 feet away from her, sprang at her. She screamed and brushed it off, but it renewed the attack. The screams brought her husband, who grabbed a shovel and struck the fisher. It fell, but it took another blow to kill it. Mrs. Johnson suffered several scratches, but her skin was not broken.
90 YEARS AGO
AUG. 16, 1928
Whitney Bros. Co. has been given permission to sink a 200-foot scow and the dock for the purpose of building thereon a coal dock. That will expedite the business of handling coal for themselves and perhaps for others. So the world “do move” and Grand Marais will get one little thing after another. And now, an aerial landing field is talked of with assurance.
Wednesday afternoon Mercer’s car took fire in front of Bally’s blacksmith shop, from a shorted wire. It was extinguished almost immediately.
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