SEPTEMBER 15

20 years ago (2005)

The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe came to the rescue of the local United Way yesterday, donating $9,000 to help defray the cost of trucking 75 tons of donated clothes to Hurricane Katrina victims in Mississippi. The clothing was originally gathered for 3,000 evacuees expected at Camp Ripley, but they went elsewhere.

30 years ago (1995)

When Dave Ralph found an odd object in the woods near County Road 48, he looked it over then kicked it. What the Baxter man didn’t know is that it was an old military mortar round, and potentially explosive. Ralph, who was scouting for deer hunting sites, was lucky it was a dud.

40 years ago (1985)

When is a bomb a bomb, and when is it just a briefcase? That was the question county lawmen asked when a “very nervous” man dro

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