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20 YEARS AGO
SEPTEMBER 3, 2001
Last week Doug Conboy coached the Silver Bay varsity football team as they met the Cook County Vikings. Tomorrow, Conboy reports to work at Cook County schools as dean of students for the middle and high school. The North Shore native will soon be certified as a principal. Conboy was hired to replace Mark Sandbo, who resigned this summer. After a brief search for a new principal, one that netted an amazing 22 applicants, the school board unanimously hired Conboy.
A recent decision by top management at Arrowhead Electric Cooperative Inc. to fire six employees caught many people off guard, not the least of which were the six who were let go on one day’s notice. When Manager Brad Janorschke told the half-dozen workers that their employment was over, he effectively laid off one-third of the staff. He said the move was made to ensure the financial integrity of the cooperative.
30 YEARS AGO
SEPTEMBER 2, 1991
There seems to be more disagreement than agreement when it comes to marina/harbor development in Grand Marais. Close to 40 persons jam-packed the commissioners’ meeting room at the courthouse last week to discuss the issue. The result was four more people were added to the marina study committee headed by John McClure. The group is seeking funds for a marina feasibility study.
National Park Service rangers are investigating the looting of a grave site at Cemetery Island, Isle Royale. During the last eight days of June 1991, grave robbers dug up and removed the remains of a miner’s child. The unnamed child perished during the first copper mining boom on Isle Royale, during the 1850s. The child had been buried along with other unfortunate miners and family members who died while working or living at the Siskiwit, Ransom and Saginaw mines.
60 YEARS AGO
AUGUST 31, 1961
Considerable interest has been generated throughout the county in the hearing next Thursday on the proposed cancellation of one bus run from Two Harbors to Grand Marais. The cancellation would leave the county with but one bus run. Not only would this work a hardship on passenger service, people maintain, but they would also lose a valuable quick package service from Duluth or the Twin Cities. The Grand Marais Village Council has stated its opposition to the proposed trip cancellation, as has the Two Harbors City Council.
Cook County schools will open September 5 with a professional staff of 50 teachers and administrators. Enrollment this year is expected to exceed 1,000 for the first time since the taconite construction period.
Will Schroederites has requested that people please dump their garbage over the edge of the cliff into the drop-off. Instead of depositing it here and there about the parking lot, where it is a menace to tires and an eyesore to all, as well as an expense to the county for clean-up detail. 2021 note: The Pincushion Overlook area used to be a dump. If you hike to the cliff area, you can still see the garbage and trash that was pushed over the edge.
90 YEARS AGO
JULY 9, 1931
CAR AND GAS TAXES
Minnesota motorists in 1930 paid less in taxes per car than motorists in any other state except North Dakota, according to C.M. Babcock, commissioner of highways. The average car registration tax in Minnesota was high at $15.09 compared to the all-states average of $13.41, but the average Minnesota gas tax was low at $14.13 compared to the all-states average of $18.65. For the country, in 1930, Oregon had the highest average auto tax at $38.15 and California had the lowest average auto tax at $4.83.
100 YEARS AGO
SEPTEMBER 8, 1921
There will be a meeting of the patrons of the school tomorrow night at 7:30. This meeting was first called for last Friday evening, but the short notice given did not permit the parents to know about it in time. Superintendent Divers would like to meet as many of the parents as possible.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hayes returned last Saturday from Tennessee, where they have been for the past year.
Cecil Brownell of Schroeder was the first to finish the full course at the Schroeder school and thereby has won a scholarship to the Tofte high school. After finishing the Tofte high school he intends to finish the course in the Grand Marais high school.
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