10 YEARS AGO
JANUARY 23, 2010
Blanca, a dog belonging to Deb Benedict and Jim Raml on the Gunflint Trail, loved to ride along with Jim on a snowmobile as they groomed the Banadad Trail for yurt-to-yurt skiing.
On Tuesday morning, January 26, 2010, a major communication outage occurred in northeastern Minnesota. It may have been caused by a fiber optic cable that was melted when steaming heat was used to clear ice from a road in downtown Duluth. Internet service, cell phone service, and long distance phone service were disrupted in St. Louis, Lake, and Cook Counties. Local ham radio operators helped relay messages that needed to be sent outside the county. The outage lasted from mid-morning to about 10 p.m., when Cook County was once again connected to the world.
Janet Roesner’s eight-month-old cat named Mouse Trap climbed to the top of a 20 foot power pole and had to be rescued by Arrowhead Electric Cooperative linemen Jerry Paine and John Twiest on Wednesday, February 16, 2010.
20 YEARS AGO
MARCH 27, 2000
Cook County Head Football Coach Lyle Anderson accepted the Minnesota Football Coaches Association “Coach of the Year” award March 17. Anderson and his staff have led the Cook County Vikings to three consecutive Class A football championships. Monday, March 13 was an historic day for Cook County High School sports. On that afternoon, under the tutelage of head Coach Sue Nelson, the first CCHS girls’ softball practice got under way. According to Nelson, 39 girls from grades 7 through 12 are involved in the fledgling program, a number she calls “really exciting.”
60 YEARS AGO
MARCH 24, 1960
A savage northwest wind, part of a wide area storm, hit Grand Marais and other North Shore points with destructive power Monday afternoon and night. The U.S. Coast Guard clocked the winds’ velocity at 52 to 54 mph with gusts from 55 to 65 mph. One aluminum window was torn from the Coast Guard house, another from the station. Insurance companies reported that several claims had come in as a result of the storm.
Last Thursday, 27 representatives of various county governmental units who have an interest and responsibility in the welfare of the youth, met in the high school library to discuss juvenile smoking. Interest in the problem has been growing throughout the county until some definite step was mandatory.
100 YEARS AGO
MARCH 24, 1920
The Republican county convention which was held at the courthouse last Wednesday sent six delegates to the state convention, uninstructed.
A number of the high school girls went for a car ride Sunday afternoon and enjoyed it very much except that they had to walk home over a very wet road as one of the car’s wheels came off.
With the evident approach of spring, many of our fishermen are fixing up their nets, all ready for a big haul this summer.
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