10 YEARS AGO
OCT. 31, 2008
Attorney Richard W. Swanson has announced that attorney Baiers C. Heeren has joined him as a shareholder in Swanson Law Office. Baiers will be joining in all aspects of the practice, which is focused primarily on real estate, estate planning, probate and business matters. Baiers is a Minnesota State Bar Association Board Certified Real Property Law Specialist.
New housing is now available for certain seasonal residents of Cook County – wood duck boxes from the Trinity Lutheran Church in Hovland. The wood duck boxes were built by the men and youth of Trinity Lutheran with materials donated by local businesses. Some of the boxes are being donated to the DNR, and some were given to the volunteer carpenters and other congregation members to hang from trees on their properties.
20 YEARS AGO
NOV. 2, 1998
The county commissioners voted to get legal opinion on a proposal from the Lutsen Tofte Tourism Association that an additional percentage of the lodging tax receipts collected in the West End be freed up for their use. At the present time, only a third of the lodging tax receipts go to the LTTA. The remaining two-thirds goes to pay off the debt on the Superior National golf course in Lutsen.
The 1998 Cook County High School volleyball season came to an unceremonious close on Tuesday, when Two Harbors beat the Vikings in the first round of the post-season in three games.
October rains triggered runs of salmon and trout into North Shore streams. DNR fish traps on the French and Knife rivers have captured an array of species.
50 YEARS AGO
OCT. 31, 1968
Vandals have done approximately $700 in damage to the U.S. Border Patrol radio tower located east of Hedstrom’s lumber mill on the Colvill Road. Ray Dorr, senior patrol inspector, said all guide lights, as well as the flashing beacon on top of the tower were apparently shot out by small caliber rifle fire. A torch was used to attempt to gain entry into a metal building used to house the emergency power supply. When that was unsuccessful, the vandals tried to chop their way in with some type of instrument, ruining the door to the building.
Five members of the Art Madsen family were reported injured when their car left the Gunflint Trail and hit a tree Sunday afternoon in a snowstorm. The car’s front end was damaged, but no glass was broken. The family, huddled cold and uncomfortable in the car, were stuck for a half-hour before a couple from Duluth who had been looking at some land on the Trail came by and picked them up and brought them to the hospital.
90 YEARS AGO
NOV. 1, 1928
Martha Leonard, a freshman, will not attend school any longer because of illness.
Charles Croft’s fish dock went out in the big storm of Tuesday.
LOST – A flash light, between Gilbert Moe’s and Morris’s place. Finder please return to Gilbert Moe, Grand Marais.
Charles Boostrom of Clearwater Lake Lodge was in town yesterday with a party of moose hunters returning from Canada. They had a moose, a deer and a bear as trophies of the chase.
Al Snyder of the Marshall-Wells Company was in town the first of the week.
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