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20 YEARS AGO
FEBRUARY 4, 2002
v Governor Jesse Ventura said he was trying to spread the pain of fixing the state’s nearly $2 billion budget shortfall when he proposed his plan recently. However, for small cities like Grand Marais, predictions are that the pain could be quite acute. According to recent figures, Grand Marais (population 1353) would have to swallow $38,799 in state cuts — quite a bit in a small town’s budget. The reduction equals an 11.43 percent cut over 2001.
30 YEARS AGO
FEBRUARY 3, 1992
v A site plan for the proposed Birchwood Apartments on County Road 7, about a block west of the Cook County North Shore Hospital and Convalescent Center, was approved by the Grand Marais City Council last week by a 4-1 vote. About 15 residents of the neighborhood, all of whom oppose the construction of an apartment in the area, attended the council meeting. The six apartment buildings planned for the site will contain a total of 24 units. There will be 16 twobedroom apartments, each with 720 square feet, and eight three-bedroom apartments of 840 square feet. v The Town of Schroeder has formed a “Garbage Committee” to study the garbage pickup situation in Schroeder Township. The committee will be prepared to make a recommendation at the annual town meeting in March. v A building permit for the remodeling/reconstruction of Mike Quaife’s Holiday Station Store here was approved by the city council. Basically, the plan calls for demolition of the existing structure and replacing it with a new building set back farther from the highway. A second row of gas pumps, parallel to those now at the station, will be added.
60 YEARS AGO
FEBRUARY 1, 1962/W
v The new translator systems at Grand Marais and Grand Portage are now operating with clear reception on channels 3 and 6 reported in various points in a fan-shaped area reaching along Lake Superior and even to the South Shore and beyond the Canadian border eastward. The system now owned and operated by KDAL-TV and WDSM-TV maintains two towers, one at Grand Marais and one at Grand Portage. v It is interesting to note that there are now 75 people receiving mail on the Trail. There are more individuals making this their permanent home.
100 YEARS AGO
FEBRUARY 2, 1922
v A perfectly serious attack has lately been made on nursery rhymes in general and “Hey-diddle-diddle, cat and the fiddle” in particular. Apparently, they are too silly for the modern nursery. is a pity the reformers themselves do not try to produce verses that show an equal genius for rhyme and rhythm instead of crusading against nonsense. Imagine a nursery without nursery rhymes or fairy stories. Imagine the world without nonsense! An intolerable prospect!
115 YEARS AGO
JANUARY 24, 1907
From The Grand Marais News, a Republican Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Cook County:
SCHROEDER NEWS
Eli Smith and Louis Godine went out in the woods to try their snowshoes this week. They saw three wolves and heard more. It is needless to say they hurried home. v Last month, William Premble and Thomas Parrent, two trappers, went out to Island Lake, 20 miles from here. The two men returned yesterday with a nice lot of furs, among them being a lynx, five feet long and eleven inches wide. They report the snow as being six feet deep at that place and say the deer and moose are traveling under the snow.
GRAND MARAIS AND VICINITY NEWS
Shingibis is manufacturing snowshoes. v Weather 40 degrees below zero the past week has put ice on the bays. v The remains of the departed Luke Malone were laid to rest in the Catholic cemetery at Chippewa City Sunday. The funeral was held in the church there, the service being read by one of the parishioners in the absence of a priest. On account of the storm, the service was postponed from 10 in the forenoon to 2 p.m. v Tom McCormick has quit the woods and will do a livery business. v The horse stage from the west, due on Saturday night, arrived on Sunday afternoon. Four men came in on the stage to work the drill at Chicago Bay.
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