10 YEARS AGO
NOV. 21, 2009
A new addition to the Grand Portage Veterans Memorial was installed just days before the Nov. 11 Veterans Day event – a majestic bald eagle sculpture, perched on a globe with its wings stretched in a protective pose. A new sign has also been put up at the site, to explain why the Grand Portage Veterans Memorial is needed – it is “Defending the past – Protecting the future.”
A request to name a stream in Hovland “Otis Creek” has been approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names. The 3.6-mile stream starts in Grand Portage State Forest, 1.2 miles northeast of the point where the Flute Reed River enters Chicago Bay of Lake Superior. The new name honors Otis Anderson (1918-2004), who operated a sawmill there. Friends and relatives successfully petitioned to name the creek on his property after him.
20 YEARS AGO
NOV. 22, 1999
A 48-year-old Duluth truck driver was found dead in his vehicle last week after he pulled off the road for unknown reasons near Cascade State Park. A deputy found the rig parked along Highway 61 just before 6 p.m. Tuesday. An autopsy will be performed.
After three years of talk, meetings and hired consultants, county commissioners officially washed their hands of the ski hill development deal they have pursued with the city of Grand Marais. The reason the commissioners took the action at their Nov. 16 meeting was simply that the city apparently was never officially in the deal. County Attorney Bill Hennessy said the city never approved the terms of a joint resolution, thus retaining control over their portion of the land.
50 YEARS AGO
NOV. 20, 1969
Construction was completed last week on two snowmobilers’ parking lots. One is located where the Esther Lake and Otter Lake roads leave the McFarland Road, and the other just off the McFarland Road near the Hovland dump.
Seventeen hobbyists shared their hobbies and talents at the November meeting of the Grand Marais Women’s Club. Fifty women gathered at Bethlehem Lutheran Church social room for Hobby Night last Wednesday evening. Included were singing and yodeling; cake decorating; rugs hooked with rug yarn; antique bottle collecting; carding wool, weaving wool and yarn wool; colored slide collection; making of colorful scarves; stamp collection; and intricately carved sculptures.
90 YEARS AGO
NOV. 21, 1929
Andy Lindberg of Grand Marais was badly injured last night while coming down from Maple Hill with a load of logs. Archie Johnson and Mr. Lindberg were driving a team of horses when Simor Tofte, driving a Chevrolet truck, came upon them so suddenly in the darkness that he was unable to stop and ran into the wagon. The horses, becoming frightened, bolted and the load was thrown onto Mr. Lindberg, who was picked up unconscious and rushed to town.
Last Monday, 8,000 tons of rock thundered down on the road at Silver Creek Cliff, blocking Trunk Highway No. 1. Hundreds of cars, fully loaded with passengers, must pass this point on the highway daily. It is about time the state took the matter in hand and removed the danger to passing traffic. Remember that this falling rock is not unusual – it has happened before and will, undoubtedly, happen again.
New song hit by the North Shore fishermen: “I Vish Again I Could Fish Again!”
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