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20 YEARS AGO
MAY 31, 2002
The Gunflint Trail Association, made up of 23 lodges and outfitters, has leased space in the former Almost Home Appliance and Sales building, and will establish a visitor information center in the space. Java Moose coffee shop will occupy half of the building, which will be open seven days a week.
v Spring has finally arrived and although we got off to a slow start, tree planting is under way throughout the county.
The Grand Marais area DNR Forestry staff had 130 acres of planting to do in Cook County this spring. Approximately 93,000 conifers were planted on three different sites. The predominant species are red pine, white pine, and white spruce.
30 YEARS AGO
JUNE 1, 1992
v Eleven members of Cook County boys’ and girls’ track teams qualified in sub-regional action to advance to regional competition in 15 different events. The regional meet took place last Saturday. Top finishers will qualify for state competition next weekend. v At Okontoe, the wind blew a tree across the electric line which in turn started a fire. Word went out to the neighbors, and pumps, hoses and volunteers arrived in short order. By the time those farthest away arrived with the equipment, the tree had been cut free of the severed line and the fire extinguished.
60 YEARS AGO
MAY 31, 1962
v B.F. Borgel, works manager of Erie Mining Company, is slated to give the main address for commencement exercises at the Grand Marais High School tomorrow night. Forty-four seniors will wear the traditional caps and gowns and will receive their diplomas. v Mike Denham shot a lynx in the Tofte area recently, and officials told him it was the first one to be turned in from that area, although about half a dozen have been turned in from around the county during the month. Mike’s lynx weighed about 50 pounds. The county pays a bounty on lynx. v Seawall Motel, owned by Mr. and Mrs. A.A. Gilchrist for the past 16 years (originally the Hans Toftey property) was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Vern Linnell. The Linnells took possession last week. The sale includes the large house facing the harbor on Highway 61 and all the motel units.
75 YEARS AGO
MAY 29, 1947
v The Grand Marais High School Class of 1947 has 23 members that will graduate tonight. The Valedictory address will be given by Joanne Ingram. v Church notices in the newspaper were from the First Baptist Church in Grand Marais, the United Protestant Church in Grand Marais, the Lutheran Churches (Bethlehem in Grand Marais, Evangelical with Divine Worship at Lutsen Resort, and Zoar in Tofte), and there were Catholic masses at Saint John the Baptist Church in Grand Marais, and Church of the Holy Rosary in Grand Portage. v FROM CRAWFORDSVILLE, ARKANSAS: The School Board decided they needed to build housing for teachers and constructed a seven-unit apartment building across the street from the school. In recent years, the Board had received “no housing – no job” responses to offers of employment. Other teachers had resigned because they couldn’t find a place to live. The School Board rejected barracks and boarding house type buildings “because congeniality does not seem to exist where a large group of adults is forced to live together.”
100 YEARS AGO
JUNE 1, 1922
v Grand Marais joined the rest of the United States in observing Memorial Day on Tuesday. The parade of school children formed at the schoolhouse and marched to the courthouse, preceded by automobiles carrying veterans of three wars. The little girls carried flowers which were placed at the foot of a cross, emblematic of the graves of the fallen heroes. It was all very impressive. 2022 NOTE: The veterans were from these three wars: the American Civil War (1861-1865), the Spanish American War (1898), and World War I (1914-1918). v Al Arneson and E.L. Ogilvie of Duluth will build summer cottages and a hotel at Cascade, having bought 20 acres there from F.D. McMillan of Minneapolis. v P.J. Bayle, the district forest ranger here, has acquired some new firefighting equipment in the form of tree sprayers. Bayle said he got the idea at the state fair last year when the sprayers were used to protect trees on exhibit from the heat. The men are very enthusiastic about the new equipment. “One sprayer full of water does as much good as 20 pails,” said one firefighter. “They make you feel like a real fireman.”
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