10 Years Ago · June 28, 1999 • According to local translator maintenance technician Duane Ege, KBJR is back, but not at full power. TheNBC affiliate from Duluth was knocked off the air after a plague of problems including a recent fire and the Easter ice storm.
The station has been unable to reach the outer regions of its broadcast area, including Cook County, since that ice storm damaged its broadcast tower.
KBJR recently announced it would be back in Cook County, and it is. The problem is that it is only broadcasting at about 10 percent power, and reception is quite poor. • Estimated market values on properties on Gull Lake and Seagull River will be frozen at 1998 values pending an analysis of the effect on those values of a recent court decision.
The decision to freeze the land values came after two Gull Lake residents complained that their loss of free motor access to Saganaga Lake (a wilderness lake) caused their property to be worth less.
20 Years Ago · June 26, 1989 • Two nonfatal cases of carbon monoxide poisoning in a Grand Marais residence on June 7 were linked to blasting for the construction project on Eighth Avenue West.
Carbon monoxide is a byproduct of blasting which cannot be smelled. The gases entered a broken sewer line and were emitted into the home through an unusual set of circumstances. The home’s sewer lines were not properly vented and a pump was attached to the sanitary sewer system, draining the taps. Water in the taps would have prevented the gas from entering the house.
Both the venting and the sump pump installations were in violation of the state Plumbing Code. • Sixth grade students from the Grand Portage school recently assisted National Park Service employees in planting shrubs within Grand Portage National Monument.
Shoreline stabilization, needed to protect important historic grounds, had left several shoreline areas and creek banks without vegetative cover.
Thestudents pitched in when an order of 350 plants arrived from a Minnesota nursery.
50 Years Ago · June 25, 1959 • A four-unit motel is being erected at the Ellis Smith place, Schroeder, and that together with their three cabins and the Smith’s Eat Shop, make a convenient stopping place for tourists at Schroeder.
The motel units are arriving in two sections, come ready built and already furnished, complete to the smallest detail. Mr. Smith had the area sodded before the first unit arrived.
An interesting sidelight of Smith’s Eat Shop is that 62,250 orders were filled at their place last year. • Col. and Mrs. Julian D. Graham of Lincoln, Neb., have been visiting in Grand Marais and vicinity this week renewing old friendships made when Col. Graham was commander of the Poplar Lake Camp on the Gunflint Trail 25 years ago. • A large gangling moose came out second best in a car-moose collision on Highway 61 east of Grand Marais early Monday morning.
The moose died from multiple injuries after it had been carried about 150 feet by the impact of the station wagon owned by a Two Harbors man, who was on his way to work on the Grand Portage-High Falls Road. Themoose was dead by the time a game warden arrived; a derrick was necessary to load the moose for removal. The meat, in this case, could not be salvaged.
Usually disposed of at a local store, the meat is sold to customers who like moose steaks. After word went out that a moose had been struck, the store was flooded with calls from moose-hungry housewives, but this time they were disappointed.
90 Years Ago · June 25, 1919 • Word has been received here that a large number of people from Kansas will be touring into Grand Marais during the months of July and August. • George Taylor, photographer from Bemidji, is in Grand Marais this week taking orders for pictures. • K.E. Luger, fire patrolman, is here from St. Paul on business. • George Brisson came home from Duluth Saturday, bringing a new International truck.
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