10 YEARS AGO
MARCH 28, 2009
West End residents in the vicinity of the Honeymoon Trail have appealed to the Cook County commissioners for the second time to have a flashing white strobe light removed from a 230-foot-tall tower in the area. The tower is used for the county’s Emergency Management System and other agencies including the Forest Service. Last August, a petition signed by 27 landowners had been brought to the county board, but no decision on altering the tower was made. After hearing a number of comments from the public, the county board said it would consider a change back to the less-intrusive red lights that had been on the tower after receiving recommendations from the county’s communications committee.
Long-time county court administrator Larry Saur will end his 36-year career in the court system when he retires on April 3.
20 YEARS AGO
MARCH 29, 1999
A draft of the new management plan for Temperance River State Park near Tofte calls for hunting to be allowed in most parts of the park north of Highway 61. The plan sets new statutory boundaries for the park to include three separate units: Cross River Wayside, Temperance River State Park and Carlton Peak. The new boundary also contains about 2,000 acres of the Superior National Forest.
“We are out of the garbage business,” said county board chairman Walt Mianowski after the unanimous vote March 23 to decline to build a transfer station. The vote came after Solid Waste Officer Tim Nelson put two options before the board: build a transfer station and subsidize it to the tune of $100,000 a year, or let the haulers contract with another county to haul waste to Duluth.
50 YEARS AGO
MARCH 27, 1969
The killing of deer on the North Shore highways continues at a high rate, game authorities reported this week. Game Warden Earl Nelms predicts that over 100 deer will have been killed this month alone unless there is a sharp decrease the remainder of the month. Over 80 have been killed up to Monday.
Leo Hussey writes of an incident that happened to him in Chicago that shook him up some. He was on a bus going down Larrabee Street when some 15 or 16 high school girls hurled a barrage of bricks, shattering all the windows on the west side of the bus! The driver had had trouble with these girls before, when they refused to pay their fares. Although a number of people sitting on the side that got hit were injured—even though the glass is “shatter-proof”—Mr. Hussey was on the other side of the bus and was not hurt.
90 YEARS AGO
MARCH 28, 1929
Shortly after midnight last Thursday the fire bell and siren aroused the entire populace of the village to witness one of the most destructive fires ever seen in Grand Marais. The fire started at the Nyland barber shop from an unknown origin and before the people were able to reach the scene, the building was completely ablaze and beyond control. The flames then spread backward and were soon eating their way into the bakery on one side, and the Peoples Supply Company building on the other. All firefighting equipment was put to use against the onrush of flames, but the efforts proved futile. In all, four business houses were destroyed.
Two cars were featured in a head-on collision at Cascade last Sunday afternoon. One driver was badly injured about the forehead and one ear; the other was not injured but his car was badly wrecked.
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