10 YEARS AGO
JULY 25, 2009
Grand Portage State Park will only be open on weekends until mid-August while work continues on site preparation for a new 5,800-square-foot visitor center. For the next two or three weeks, construction workers will be pile driving within 20 feet of the trail to High Falls. Workers will also be operating forklifts, cement trucks, and other large equipment along the trail and in the parking lot. Ground was broken on the project June 15; the DNR expects the new visitor center to open in June 2010.
A Grand Portage woman was taken to the Cook County North Shore Hospital July 17 after her vehicle veered off Highway 61 and crashed near the Rock Cut. The accident was reported at 4:14 p.m. by a driver who saw the vehicle behind his leave the road.
20 YEARS AGO
JULY 26, 1999
A 48-year-old man drowned after rescuing his daughter from the lower falls in the Temperance River last Saturday. According to the sheriff, a 911 call came in around 5 p.m. A young girl, wearing a life jacket, slipped in the current and went under water at the foot of the lower falls. Minutes later, another 911 call came with the message that the girl was safe, but that the man who rescued her was in trouble.
The Cook County- Grand Marais Economic Development Authority decided July 21 to accept a proposal by Gordon Awsumb for development of the Old Ski Hill property. The proposal would eventually build 62 dwellings over a five-year period on one-acre plots on the lower third of the property.
50 YEARS AGO
JULY 24, 1969
The body of a 20-year-old Ohio man who fell into the narrow gorge about a quarter-mile north of Highway 61 into the Temperance River on Sunday still has not been recovered. His companions said the victim attempted to jump across the stream – the two rocky banks are a mere 4-5 feet apart – when he slipped and went into the water. Sheriff Emerson Morris said wire nets have been strung across the flat shallow area of the river just below the high-walled gorge to catch the body if it floats down; it seems to be the only way to recover the body.
Forty-eight girls are attending the Mink Lake Camp. They come from all parts of the state. Next week a group of boys will be registered. There have been two canoe trips that started from Mink Lake this year.
90 YEARS AGO
JULY 25, 1929
Latest fire reports tonight say that Camp 3 in the vicinity of Homer Lake is besieged by fire and that the flames are again spreading in the Brule area. About 375 men are still patrolling the fire between Brule and Cascade lakes, according to the U.S. Forestry office.
The News-Herald office is being re-decorated. The walls are being painted a light buff and the woodwork a nut brown. The outer office will be finished on Monday.
The tourist park has accommodated 618 overnight cars and 108 lunch cars so far this year, records show. This means that the registration is 59 overnight cars short but 68 lunch cars ahead of last year. Tuesday night there were 48 cars in the park – a banner night for this season.
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