Roseau Times-Region - Serving Roseau County for over 100 Years - The Official Roseau County Newspaper

by Jeff Olsen

Located along County Road 9 on the southern edge of Roseau County is Skime, a location where bootleggers during the Prohibition era made their own homemade whiskey and other remedies not considered kosher by the federal authorities.

Even in the modern era, it was a novelty if a solitary local chap worked for the Roseau County Sheriff's Department.

Now, little Skime has become a pipeline for dispatchers and jailers.

Last Sunday, Galyn Solberg mentioned that he'd just recently learned that Levi Brateng, a local man, has been working at the Roseau County Detention Center for more th...