10 Years Ago ·
April 17, 2000
• County rescue personnel were kept busy last week, responding to four vehicle accidents in a two-day period. Three of the accidents occurred on Tuesday, April 11. • Eight youths have pled guilty and been sentenced in connection with an underage drinking party in Lutsen last month.
The party-goers, all 18 or 19 years of age, appeared in Cook County court on April 5. They each received a 10-day jail term and fines of $135.
However, Judge Kenneth Sandvik stayed the jail terms for six months on the condition that the fines are paid. • Renovations are underway at the building that houses the Schroeder post office and the local Historical Society. Made possible through a $45,000 IRRRB low-interest loan through the township’s Storefront Loan Program, the make-over will create more usable space in the building for both occupants.
The construction may necessitate the temporary relocation of the post office later this year.
20 Years Ago ·
April 16, 1990
• TheGrand Portage Band is undertaking major room renovations at Grand Portage Lodge and adding 83 video casino games in order to provide jobs and attract more tourists to the facility. A large grand opening is planned for sometime in May.
The new gaming facility will add 24 jobs, most of which will be filled locally. Revenue derived from the gaming will be used for economic development. • Grand Marais police were searching Thursday morning for clues that would lead them to the crowbar-wielding burglars who pried open the safe at Hedstrom Lumber Company’s retail yard. They said the burglars’ methods were uncommon, and while the burglars made quite a mess while opening the safe, there was no sign of forced entry to the premises. • CCHS students walked out in protest last Wednesday after the school board voted Tuesday to adopt a new four-period schedule for next school year.
Most of those students were sophomores, juniors and seniors, although some were junior high students, too.
The new schedule has 90-minute class periods instead of the current 50-minute classes. Full-year classes will be taught in a semester. The schedule is similar to that used in Ontario, where it has been successful.
Thestudents said they walked out to get the attention of school officials because there has been little communication between administrators and students regarding the schedule, and no informational assemblies were held.
50 Years Ago ·
April 14, 1960
• Space difficulties still continue to beset the local school authorities here.
The Cook County High School, for instance, has had to make provision for expected increased attendance next year, The enrollment now is about 366, but next year this will be 400 or more.
In face of this, the board last week voted to rent the old Lutheran church building here at $100 a month for the next 12 months as a temporary measure. • Jim Cartier was badly shaken up last Wednesday from a fall on the ice of a driveway in town while delivering his dairy products. Earl Krause, telephone company employee, found him, picked him up and placed him in his truck. He then brought Mrs. Cartier to the scene of the accident, and she brought Jim home.
Jim was home for three days recuperating, and felt lucky that he didn’t have any broken bones. • Mabel’s Café was closed last week for a thorough clean-up job. The dining room is so clean it looks like a new paint job, the kitchen sparkles from new paint, and the walls are a dazzling white with apple blossom pink ceiling.
90 Years Ago ·
April 14, 1920
• Mr. Peterson, a potato buyer from Virginia, is in town making arrangements to handle the potatoes he has been buying in this locality. He is paying $2.50 a bushel delivered on the shore. • W.C. Smith has started work on his new restaurant building just east of the Paine Hotel. He will use the old restaurant building as it is, but will move the building formerly used as a barber shop to the rear of the lot and put up a new building where that now stands.
He expects to have everything in shape to handle the tourist trade when it starts. • Thetrout season is here! The confirmed fisherman is now doomed to impatiently suffer until the speckled beauties begin to strike. Then— and only then — comes relief.
The local streams now are filled to overflow with water, and there is considerable snow and ice along the banks. Local fishermen do not hope to be able to catch many trout until May, for the reason that the streams will all be high and roily for over a month yet.
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