10 Years Ago ·
Aug. 7, 2000
• LTV Steel Mining Company will begin laying off about 100 workers at the end of August. The layoffs will affect workers at LTV’s Aurora- Hoyt Lakes site, and potentially at its Schroeder site.
The company has also decided to close the mine in July or August 2001.
Union officials of United Steel Workers of America responded by filing a grievance to fight the layoffs and mine closure, saying the plans violate basic labor agreements.
• A legal tug-of-war has emerged between environmental groups and Minnesota Forest Industries Inc. (MFI), of which Hedstrom’s Lumber Company is a member, over what to do with downed trees from the July 4, 1999 storm.
MFI/Hedstrom’s and the Superior Wilderness Action Network (SWAN) have filed opposing appeals with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Under the Forest Service’s Gunflint corridor cleanup plan, about half the wood will be cut and the other half burned. The targeted area does not include the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, where cleanup will be accomplished through controlled burns, and not by logging.
20 Years Ago ·
Aug. 6, 1990
• TheU.S. Forest Service, Friends of the Boundary Waters and The Izak Walton League held a joint press conference in Duluth last week to voice concerns about mercury contamination in northeastern Minnesota fish.
“I don’t know what the danger is in eating fish contaminated with mercury. I don’t know if we are at that level of danger,” Superior National Forest Supervisor Dave Filius said. “I don’t know how far we have to go to get there.”
No new information regarding mercury contamination in fish was released at the conference.
• An all-school reunion celebrating the 50th year of Grand Portage’s log schoolhouse, the only one in Minnesota, highlights Rendezvous Days this year. About 300-400 people are expected to attend.
Featured speaker will be Edna May, the school’s first teacher. There will also be an auction of school memorabilia, including a pointer and the original basketball uniforms.
50 Years Ago ·
Aug. 4, 1960
• Jack Nelson, former high school coach here, now a coach at the University of Michigan, showed movies and gave some highlights on football at Michigan at the July 26 meeting of the Lions Club at Naniboujou.
The brand of football, as portrayed in the pictures, won the praise of the Lions members.
• Children are looking forward to pony rides to be offered at Tomteboda during the Fisherman’s Picnic weekend.
• Postmaster M.D. Quaife reported this week that there has been a slight change in mail departure for Duluth in the afternoons. The mail now leaves at 4:30 p.m. instead of at 5 p.m.
• Bill Drouillard of Grand Portage was in Grand Marais Tuesday having some dental work done. Bill has been plagued with arthritis for some time.
90 Years Ago ·
Aug. 4, 1920
• Mr. and Mrs. Andret and son and Mrs. Spooner returned home Thursday from Minneapolis where they consulted a specialist in regard to little Roger Andret, who was hurt quite badly by a fall down a stairway.
The parents were made very happy when the specialist pronounced that there was no fracture, as it was at first feared might be the case.
• A warning to Minnesota potato growers to be on the lookout for late blight, the most destructive leaf disease of potatoes, is being sent out by A.G. Tolaas, chief potato instructor. Mr. Tolaas says that the blight can be controlled by proper spraying, but it is necessary to begin spraying as soon as the blight appears — or even before, if one wishes to be insured against the disease.
• FOUND — One yearling bull, black with white spot on right hip and small white star in forehead. Owner please call, pay damages and take animal away.
— P.M. Linnell, Mineral Center
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