10 Years Ago ·
May 29, 2000
• There was little hope in the immediate wake of the May 24 announcement that LTV Steel Mining Company’s Hoyt Lakes taconite plant will fade into Minnesota history within a year.
Hoyt Lakes has been the only supplier of pellets to the LTV taconite facility on Lake Superior in Schroeder. As of now, all that is known is that the power plant will continue to operate, but the majority of the taconite-related jobs at the facility will be lost within a year.
• Responding to state and national calls to cut through the red tape and begin the prescribed burning in the wilderness blowdown this coming fall, the supervisor for the Superior National Forest said he still supports the plan in progress.
“While I appreciate the support, I look at the whole 477,000 acres of the blowdown and not just the Boundary Waters,” Jim Sanders told the News-Herald
last week. “We need to back up and say ‘Where are the areas of highest risk?’ and that is the Gunflint Trail and the Fernberg area in St. Louis County. We need to get that substantially started and moving so that when we begin burning within the Boundary Waters the risk is lowered.”
20 Years Ago ·
May 28, 1990
• Strollers along the Grand Marais harbor soon will be able to stop for a break at one of six teak benches along the harbor walk near Highway 61 and on the way to Coast Guard Point.
Officials explained that teak is more expensive than other woods, but its hard surface is resistant to the pocket knives of vandals. The benches will also be bolted in place so they cannot be moved.
City workers will install the benches next week. • “Boulder Park,” located at the peninsula entry to the Coast Guard station, became a reality during a dedication ceremony May 19. The mini-park was celebrated by the Woodlands Committee, whose members said the effort took more than a year of “planning, meeting, cajoling and some begging.”
• TheGrand Marais Coast Guard station reopened yesterday as a three-man detachment launched its new 25-foot patrol boat and moved into quarters at the station.
The Coast Guard will man the station full-time during the boating season and will rotate threeman crews every two or three weeks.
Thecrew will be on ready alert from Thursday through Monday of each week and on 30-minute response Tuesday and Wednesday.
50 Years Ago ·
May 26, 1960
• Village Marshal John M. Blackwell warns that 90-minute parking limits are now in force and that he will proceed to enforce the parking ordinance regarding same.
• Norman Howard has taken on the distributorship of the latest in baby feeders.
In appearance the “Infafeeder” has the look of a cake decorator. However, the hole end of the feeder is supplied with a nipple from which the baby sucks the food. No more spoon-feeding — the baby operates on his own!
It has many advantages over the old system and feeds such foods as cereals and strained foods. Theinventors said they got the idea from a ballpoint pen.
• Judge C.R. Magney, who vacationed in New Zealand last winter, has returned to his summer home here.
• Karen Holte is finishing her second year as kindergarten teacher at Buhl, Minn., and will teach in the Oakland, Calif. public schools next fall.
90 Years Ago ·
May 26, 1920
• A large number of Canadians took advantage of the holiday last Monday, that being Victoria Day over there, for a motor trip over the North Shore road. The hotels here were taxed to the limit Sunday and Monday, most of them visitors from the other side.
• We hear via the grapevine wireless that a government officer made a big haul of Canadian booze on the reservation last week, and have kept our eye peeled for something in the daily papers, but have seen nothing so far.
• TheCramer house burned Friday night. It was being fixed up by some Two Harbors party to take care of the summer business.
It is not known how the fire started.
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