10 Years Ago ·
Aug. 21, 2000
• High School Principal Mark Sandbo revealed last week that as many as five Cook County students received failing grades on last year’s Basic Standards Math Test when, in fact, they had passed.
Students throughout the state begin taking Basic Standards tests in grade 8 in both reading and math. Without a passing grade in each, students will not graduate.
The false-fail problem in the math test hit virtually every school district in the state. It happened when the testing company changed some of the questions on the test without changing the corresponding answers. That error cost many deserving seniors in the class of 2000 their diplomas.
Sandbo said there were 27 local students affected, but only five went from fail to pass.
• A new Lake Superior “safe harbor” and public launch are nearly completed at Taconite Harbor. Projected completion of construction is October.
The public access is located just west of the landing docks at LTV Mining’s Taconite Harbor facility. The$3.4 million project is a joint effortof the DNR and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The site was provided by LTV via a long-term lease.
20 Years Ago ·
Aug. 20, 1990
• TheGrand Marais Chamber of Commerce is looking for new Christmas lights for the city. The city’s old lights are in disrepair.
The Chamber is considering lighting the downtown and along Highway 61. The lighted area would extend from Lund’s Cabins to IGA on the highway, and would include Wisconsin, Broadway, First and Second downtown.
Thenew lights would total $33,000 and be purchased in phases. The Chamber plans to launch a fundraising drive.
• A 13-year-old Duluth boy suffered injuries when he was struck while crossing Highway 61 by the Grand Marais Tourist Park at 11:20 a.m. Aug. 4.
The following day, a 19-year-old Duluth woman was struck while bicycling on the highway near the park’s entrance. She received a cut on the head and injured her left wrist.
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50 Years Ago ·
Aug. 18, 1960
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• Construction work has begun on Reserve Mining Company’s program to expand its taconite processing facilities. The project, announced last April, will cost about $120 million and create 800 to 900 new year-round jobs at Babbitt and Silver Bay.
• TheGrand Marais “high” for the week ending Y u new pap r
has greed to par Aug. 6 was an even 77, which was the lowest high
ticiaei te2 anywhere in the state that week It was the only
x2torn
reading that reached down into the 70s at all! Displa A Net
• Horseback riding is gaining interest on the these ads in he ma
Trail with the Gunflint Trail stables reporting news s ction of y
riders using their services from Bearskin to End of the Trail. newspaper not the
yo r newspaper) At It is an added attraction for the youngsters and for
a windy day.
90 Years Ago ·
Aug. 25, 1920 ic ct n Ho
• A large gasoline boat with no name or other tcpate in te 2 ma el up to each
newspaper Ads may distinctive marks entered the harbor this morning
DipyANt k for gas. Theonly occupant of the boat, who gave
a un need to b dec ease
his name as Olson, said he was from Port Ar hur slightly in size to fi
hesea sinthemain and was on his way home from Duluth.
yo r colu
Theboat looked as though it was built for speed
p p ( ot h
Please do not bill fo — it was equipped with a powerful four-cylinder
motor.
sii i
, r • Thestereopticon lecture given by Miss
yu pf MNA at 800
Crouse at the Congregational church l st 2979. Thank
ic sectio we e , Sunday evening was so well received that she has
the d cisi n is u ti consented to give another next Tuesday.
m y ac Thiswill be of Japan and 70 colored slides will be
w pe d shown of Japanese scenes and costumes, among
ne d to dec eased them a wedding scene which is particularly
sl g interesting.
Miss Crouse will be dressed in Japanese costume
and will sing a few Japanese songs, which will add
Psd tillr greatly to the interest of the lecture.
q laa • L.U. Spehr and Peter Spehr of St. Paul
MNA a 80 2 9 returned Tuesday from a week’s outing in the
2 Thank you northern part of the county. They said they were
roughing it, and their clothes looked it upon their return. They must have taken the roughest places they could find.
L.U. Spehr is city editor of the St. Paul Pioneer
Press.
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