10 YEARS AGO
JUNE 27, 2009
The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved a request from Sheriff Mark Falk on June 23 to outfit Sheriff ’s Department vehicles with computers. The computers will allow officers to access information from the state directly without having to go through dispatchers. They will also be able to write a report at the scene of a call instead of waiting until they return to the office. The funds are in the department’s budget.
World’s Best Donuts celebrated its 40th anniversary with music, games and free donuts on June 13. The small donut shop started by Marieta Altrichter and her daughters has grown to a family business and North Shore landmark.
20 YEARS AGO
JUNE 28, 1999
KBJR is back on the local translator tower in Grand Marais, but not at full power. The NBC affiliate from Duluth was knocked off the air after a plague of problems including a recent fire and the Easter ice storm. The station has been unable to reach the outer regions of its broadcast area, including Cook County, since that ice storm damaged its broadcast tower. Currently it is only available in Cook County at about 10 percent power, and reception is quite poor.
Estimated market values on properties on Gull Lake and Seagull River will be frozen at 1998 values pending an analysis of the effect on those values of a recent court decision. The decision to freeze the land values came after two Gull Lake residents complained that their loss of free motor access to Saganaga Lake (a wilderness lake) caused their property to be worth less.
50 YEARS AGO
JUNE 26, 1969
Eighty thousand Tip of the Arrowhead folders are being distributed. The Cook County Civic Council has released them through sports shows, travel bureaus, and other outlets.
Richard S. Tousley, 37, has been named superintendent of Grand Portage National Monument. The assignment will mark a return to Minnesota for Tousley, an Illinois native who was a forestry student at the University of Minnesota in the early 1950s. Tousley succeeds William Bromberg, who was transferred to Virgin Islands National Park as superintendent.
Elizabeth Johnson of Grand Marais has been presented her stewardess wings with Northwest Orient Airlines after completing five weeks of specialized training at the airline’s center at the Minneapolis International Airport.
90 YEARS AGO
JUNE 27, 1929
Accommodations for tourists, so far as fishing and outof doors recreation is concerned, have been extended to Sea Gull Lake at the end of the Gunflint Trail. Jim Dunn, who is well acquainted in the North Woods, now operates an establishment at a place five miles down the lake from the road. He has named the place “Windigo Point,” which means, in Chippewa language, “haunted point.”
Mr. and Mrs. George Nelson motored to Duluth yesterday and attended the circus.
The front porch of the J.J. Hussey residence is being remodeled.
Charles Quick almost completely demolished his Ford car last Sunday when he drove into the ditch west of town. He escaped without injury.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Foote Jr., who are well-known in Cook County, were severelyMinnesotainjured in an airplane crashCraftin andthe TwinFlea Cities a few days ago.Open Entire
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