10 Years Ago ·
July 31, 2000
• TheCook County Historical Society and the Hovland Community Club are co-sponsoring the restoration of the old warehouse and dock at Hovland.
Thedock and warehouse are the only ones left on Lake Superior, and are a reminder of the days when boats were the only means of contact with the outside world.
• Three local residents appeared before the Grand Marais Public Utilities Commission on July 19 to speak against a proposed donation to the Greening Earth Society. A representative of the organization asked for a donation at the July 11 meeting after showing a half-hour-long video.
Thegist of the video was that global warming is unproved and carbon dioxide in the air is good, not bad. TheGreening Earth Society produced the video.
A vote is expected at the next PUC meeting.
20 Years Ago ·
July 30, 1990
• If a city proposal comes to pass, everyone from the west end of Croftville on the east to Allen’s Hilltop Cabins on the west would be living in the city of Grand Marais.
The annexation proposal, suggested by a committee named to study the question, would add nearly five square miles to the city boundaries. Grand Marais currently encompasses an area of less than two miles.
The last annexation to the city occurred in 1902 and 1903.
• Legal counsel for radio station owner Tim Martz of Fairfield, Conn., informed Susan Swift, the attorney retained by Cook County to handle the case, that Martz has decided to sell his property north of Hovland and has given up the conditional use permit issued by the county.
Martz had intended to construct a radio tower on a hilltop near Esther Lake. The tower was opposed by a group of residents and cabin owners, who won an injunction against construction. Martz had already lost an appeal.
50 Years Ago ·
July 28, 1960
• A good-sized doe was free to roam again last Monday, but it might have been quite another story.
Children saw it swimming out in Lake Superior and alerted Mr. Lawrence Larsen, who took his fishing boat and went out after it. He headed it back to shore. By that time, Croftville summer residents and visitors had gathered along the beach and the deer was frightened.
Guided again to an unpopulated beach, the deer came to shore and took off for the woods. TheLarsens took movies of the incident.
• Theblueberries have not proven to be the crop that was anticipated. The continuous warm, sunny days without rain have dried up a large share of the crop.
• A special incentive this year in the baking department at the Cook County Fair will be the special Best of Show yeast baking award of $10 to a 4-H girl and a like amount to an adult baker.
90 Years Ago ·
July 28, 1920
• TheMidway Service Station has installed a Delco-Light electric plant for lighting their garage, and will also furnish light to the post office.
• V.N. Johnson is now busy moving his tire shop into his new building. Some new machinery is being installed and when completed Verne will have as complete and classy a shop as will be found anywhere.
• Mr. Dan Dougherty, special U.S. agent for the enforcement of the prohibition law, was in the county this week on official business.
• John Rindahl arrived on the stage Monday evening from the state of Washington to visit his brother, Peter Rindahl, of Maple Hill. He has not been here for 18 years.
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