A few weeks ago, my wife Sharon and I had our four kids write out a Christmas list. Making a list usually helps the relatives and the grandparents the most, especially those out of town. Their lists included many of the typical toys you might find any young kids listing: Legos, Transformers, games, football cards, etc. We try to be […]
Girls’ basketball tips off season at midnight
TheCook County girls’ basketball team wasted no time in tipping off the 2009- 2010 season. On Monday, November 16 at midnight, the Vikings started their own “Midnight Madness” practice. Head Coach T.J. Super and 17 girls started the season late Sunday night by moving some furniture in the gym, cooking up pizza and supplying some chips, and watching the movie […]
New Arrivals
David and Sarah Bly, along with big brother Josiah, welcome Jeremiah Daniel Bly. Jeremiah was born October 23, 2009. He weighed 7 pounds 12 ounces and was 20 inches long.
Lives Remembered
Sharon Ann (Bushman) Vogel passed away November 10, 2009 in Grand Marais after struggling with cancer. She was born June 7, 1937 in Cloquet, Minnesota; she lived in Grand Portage growing up, returning again in 1981. As a young woman she moved to Tucson, Arizona with her family. There she met, fell in love with and married Robert J. Vogel […]
Veteran appreciated band program
I would like to sincerely thank Cook County Band Director Bill Tormondsen and the band for the wonderful program they put on for veterans and the community last Wednesday morning. I would also like to thank Gwen Carman and ISD 166 and all the students and community members who attended. As a veteran I really enjoyed and appreciated the event […]
Thanksgiving thoughts
I am thankful for my shelter. Four years ago my mom didn’t like the hallways in our house, so we got a new house. While our house was getting built, we had to live in a trailer house, but we were still on the same property. It was fun, and also weird because we had to use a portable potty, […]
Poetic ponderings
Passing through town the other day I could see smoke heading for the bay Down by the hospital I did stop and stare For smoke encased the complex of our medical care Off to drive bus my mind was thinking Something seemed to be rotten and stinking After my run I stopped by to enter The hallowed halls of our […]
Vikings stadium should not be funded by taxpayers
Last week Minnesota House of Representatives Speaker Anderson-Kelliher announced that she will appoint a “Purple Ribbon” panel to study the possibility of funding a new billion dollar Vikings stadium with 75% of the funding coming from taxpayers. As the possibility of short-term borrowing looms and the forecast of the largest budget shortfall in state history on the horizon, the Speaker […]
CORRECTION:
In the November 14, 2009 article Northwoods Food Project studies poultry needs, an incorrect web site was given. The correct address is: www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx? sm=x7vKpngziHEAgXRSkSTRWw_3d_3d
West End library volunteer needed
The Grand Marais Public Library needs a West End volunteer who can deliver books from the book drop at the Grand Marais State Bank in Tofte to the library in Grand Marais once a week. The bank has been very nice about letting West End residents return their library books to the book drop instead of bringing them all the […]