10 Years Ago ·
June 19, 2000
• According to a significant number of parties involved in both the promotion of and opposition to the North Shore State Trail, there will not be an extension of the trail from Grand Marais to either the border with Grand Portage Reservation or Canada.
Lack of money and lack of easement over private lands appears to have done in the 10-year effort. Thetrail was to have been the last link in a multiple use throughway from Duluth to Ontario.
Themain sticking point was location. Thetrail would have cut a 33-foot swath through relatively unsettled forests in Colvill and Hovland.
• Schroeder Township supervisors approved a change in ambulance service policy last week that will allow residents living in a formerly undesignated area near the county line to be picked up by an ambulance crew from neighboring Lake County.
Currently, all residents of the township are automatically connected to the Cook County dispatch center when they call 911, and an ambulance is sent from Grand Marais — a practice some argue costs precious time because the ambulance station in Silver Bay is closer.
20 Years Ago ·
June 18, 1990
• TheCook County Board voted last week to reduce the speed limit on the Croftville Road from 30 mph to 20 mph in response to complaints about speeding.
• A public meeting was held at the Birch Grove Center on June 8 to discuss the proposed “Snoopy” flights — military training flights over Lake Superior which would come inland over a long stretch of the North Shore, particularly the communities in the West End.
Approximately 30-40 residents were on hand to meet with representatives of the Air National Guard and learn specifics about the proposed flights. The two main areas of concern are a plan to increase the number of flights above 4,500 feet (training flights over the lake would take place at 500-foot levels up to within five miles of the shore, pulling up to the required 4,500-foot levels as the planes come in over land); and the existing low-level corridor which runs inland along the shore and where flights are currently allowed at the 500-foot level (Lutsen Mountains is in the path of this corridor).
50 Years Ago ·
June 16, 1960
• U.S. Border Patrol officials had an unusually busy weekend apprehending aliens who had unlawfully crossed the border at Pigeon River. In this they had the cooperation of other law enforcement agencies here.
On Saturday night they were tipped off that a man had waded the Pigeon River and was somewhere in the area. They finally caught him wet to the waist, at a road block at Mineral Center. He was a German seaman who had jumped ship at Port Arthur, Canada, and was trying to get into this country. He will probably be deported.
The following evening three young Hungarians, who had been employed in Canada the last three years and were probably trying to make their way to Colorado or some other inland area, were apprehended after officials spent two sleepless nights waiting for them. They had been tipped off, and believed the three had waded the river and made their way through the woods, keeping off the roads and beaches until they arrived in Hovland, tuckered, insect-bitten and footsore. They were captured in a cabin after the owner spotted them and called authorities.
• A truck driver hauling fruit to Canada evidently fell asleep and crashed into a telephone pole east of Grand Marais, near Jack Scott’s, early Sunday.
Theman was not injured. Thephone crews, however, had another job in restoring service.
90 Years Ago ·
June 16, 1920
• TheAmerican Legion members are planning a celebration for Independence Day. There will be stunts of all kinds and a good time is promised.
• Thenew church society of Mineral Center announces that a box supper will be given June 19. A big fat supper is guaranteed in each box.
Proceeds to be used toward the construction of the new church.
• Thebrook trout season is in full swing and many of the local sportsmen report a good catch. Even the game warden has the fever and was seen with a brand new pole and basket.
• Theprimary election is just a few days off, and outside of the contest in the first commissioner district there is nothing of local interest.
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