10 Years Ago ·
Nov. 27, 2000
• Lyle Anderson has coached football in Cook County since 1976, but the Nov. 10 loss to Browerville marked the end of his coaching career. After 25 seasons with the Vikes, Anderson has decided to hang up the whistle and close the playbook on a career that saw incredible coaching successes in recent years, including three state championships, eight section championships, and six conference championships.
• Thecommunity members doing the strategic long-range planning for the school district are off to a good start, according to Superintendent Dale Tormondsen. He told school board members last week that a population study showed the schoolage family population is in steep decline throughout rural Minnesota.
“We are no different,” Tormondsen said, adding that there is a trend in Cook County toward more retired people moving in than families with schoolage children. Since the school funding is based on how many students attend school, fewer students bodes ill for the financial health of any district.
20 Years Ago ·
Nov. 26, 1990
• Years of infighting, frustration, miscommunication and muddled bureaucracy will come to a head this week when the Grand Marais City Council discusses whether the city’s park board should be disbanded.
A source of controversy since developers began to eye the city’s harborside campground with interest, the park board has come under fire from the city council for the way it has managed the city’s recreation programs.
Disbanding the park board would require a unanimous vote of the council under state statutes.
• TheCook County board voted to transfer $34,500 of county money and make monthly payments of $2,875 into a financial assurance fund for landfill closure in order to come into compliance with Minnesota Pollution Control Agency regulations.
Recently the county was cited by the agency for not making the payments, which will amount to over $1 million during the projected life of the landfill.
50 Years Ago ·
Nov. 24, 1960
• With but three days to go of the deer hunting season, officers were keeping their fingers crossed, since no accident here had been reported up to that time.
Thenit happened!
Word came back from the woods that a Minneapolis man, 63, had been killed in a hunting accident some 20 miles north of Grand Marais. Early indications were that the hunter slipped as he attempted to load his gun. The gun stock apparently hit the ground, setting off the charge which hit the victim under the lower lip.
No inquest was necessary.
• In a very unofficialrocking chair survey it was noted that many more deer went down the highway this season than last. Some vehicles had as many as three and four deer tied on.
One fact was very evident. Many hunters who were returning home without deer had Christmas trees. The thought was, evidently, if you can’t cut down a deer, at least cut down a tree!
• Coach Lee Thomas of the Vikings gave a brief talk on his expectations for the season, before the Lions Club at the East Bay Tuesday night. He was generally optimistic, and seemingly impatient to get into action.
Theteam this year will be decked in new warm-up jackets and knee socks.
90 Years Ago ·
Nov. 24, 1920
• Thecarcasses of fivebull moose were seized by Game Warden Clark back of Chicago Bay last week. It is believed they were shot with the intention of selling them to hunters who did not like to return home empty-handed.
Just what disposition will be made of them we do not know, but it is expected they will be hauled out of the woods and sold at public auction.
• A company is being organized for the purpose of purchasing and operating an electric lighting plant in the village of Grand Marais.
The stock in the company will all be sold locally. The articles of incorporation have been forwarded to the office of the Secretary of State.
• Thesecond annual dinner of the American Legion has been postponed until New Year’s Eve. Be ready for a large dance at the Happy Hour Hall after the dinner.
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