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20 YEARS AGO
JULY 2, 2001
A helicopter used for firefighting suffered some type of mechanical failure June 23 and was landed by the pilot in a boggy area near Greer Lake in the Quetico Provincial Park, north of Basswood Lake in the BWCAW. Neither of the two men in the aircraft was injured. The large whirlibird — a Sikorsky sky crane — sank in the bog, and as of yesterday was still mired in the muck, though lots of effort was being made to free it so that another sky crane could lift it and fly it to Ely.
30 YEARS AGO
JULY 1, 1991
LTV Steel Mining moved two steps closer to reopening its Taconite Harbor power plant last week. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency citizen’s board okayed a previous staff recommendation to approve water quality permits at their monthly meeting. The citizen’s board will review the staff air quality recommendation at its next meeting. If it votes to agree with the staff and denies a petition filed by a coalition of six environmental groups seeking a formal hearing, the 225-megawatt plant would be permitted to start regular operations.
After a considerable amount of wrangling over the size and scope of the proposed community center building, Cook County commissioners voted unanimously to support the project. The first phase of the project has been budgeted at $557,000. Nearly half the amount, $250,000, is expected to come from IRRRB funds. Cook County is scheduled to contribute $160,000; the city will provide $45,000; the University of Minnesota will chip in $15,000; the curling club will give $3,000 plus 2,000 man-hours of labor; and $84,000 is unidentified as of yet, although other groups have also volunteered labor.
60 YEARS AGO
JUNE 29, 1961
It is a beehive of activity on the new relocated Highway 61 between Grand Portage and the Pigeon River these days. In addition to the Canadian crew doing the bridge construction over the Pigeon River, five other crews are busy with their work. The local telephone company is laying the huge cable, the guard rails are being built, rock-crushing, graveling and blacktopping are being done on the highway, and the state highway crews are tree planting in areas bordering the highway.
The lilacs have burst into bloom. The twin flowers, wild lilies-of-the-valley and partridge berry blooms carpet the forest floor. It would appear that the dry spring will eliminate the possibility of a blueberry crop — as a consequence, we may have more bears looking for a tidy tidbit.
100 YEARS AGO
JUNE 30, 1921
Sunday afternoon the local fans were treated to a 10-inning game of baseball between the Grand Marais Tigers and the crew of the Coast Guard boat Cook. The Lindskog brothers were pitcher and catcher, respectively, for the Tigers, and the ball game was closely contested all the way through. The sailor boys are very good ball players, and the local fellows did not come out victors without a lot of effort.
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