Grade Six Owen Anderson Rory Bakke Shaunna Blake Sara Carman Kimberlee Dossey Lily Gruber-Schulz Leo Johnson Samuel Kern Sean MacDonell Trace Macquatters Timothy Miller Joseph Rauzi Benjamin Resek Madison Roy Anika Schwarz William Seaton Morgan Weyrens-Welch Grade Seven Daniel Ahrendt Kaylee Cronberg Danielle Hansen Brenna Hay Aubry Lewis Alexander Murray Emma Nalezny Twyla Pedersen Lars Scannell Mikala Schliep Jami Sjogren […]
Locals honored at Head of the Lakes Alpine Celebration
In October, the first Head of the Lakes Alpine Celebration was held at the Spirit Mountain Recreation Center. Recognized at the event were Sue Hansen, George, Patti and Cindy Nelson and Charles Skinner Sr. A committee of 17 ski enthusiasts from the Duluth area coordinated the event which included honoring individuals who made a difference in the alpine industry as […]
Girls’ scholarship available
The Community Foundation is collecting applications for the Charlotte Ulland Scholarship for Girls, an award that was recently established to celebrate the 100th birthday of Charlotte Ulland. Charlotte was born in Beaver Bay in 1909 and still owns and regularly visits her birth home. The award is only open to female students of Two Harbors, William Kelley and Cook County […]
Public sightings of moose needed
Hunters and wildlife watchers are seeing fewer moose in northeastern Minnesota. A scientfic study shows higher than expected mortality of adult moose. Calf production is also lower than it has been in the past. In northwestern Minnesota moose declined from over 4,000 to fewer than 100 in less than 20 years. Could the Arrowhead Region — with over 7,000 moose […]
Minnesota State Forest Recreation Guide now available
People looking for new outdoor adventures can explore the 4 million acres in Minnesota’s 58 state forests for free. Minnesota’s state forests, located across the state, can be visited with no admission fee or vehicle permit. The 2009 Minnesota State Forest Recreation Guide is now available to help plan state forest adventures. It features descriptions of the 58 state forests, […]
Cyber Christmas secrets
I just finished packing for our family’s trip over Thanksgiving. We are very excited about the trip to see Chuck’s family in Indianapolis. We’ve made the trek to Indiana for Thanksgiving several times. It’s a perfect time of year to visit Indiana. We avoid our southern relatives in the hot and muggy spring and summer. That’s the best time for […]
Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving? Family, health, food, friends, a job? Counting our blessings is good, but an attitude of thankfulness/ gratitude can propel us way deeper, providing us with a profound perspective to last long beyond Thanksgiving Day. Reading about thankfulness in the New Testament, I was surprised by how much Paul writes about it. Writing to […]
Historical Reflections
Preserving the wildernessFourteen miles up the Caribou Trail is Tait Lake. The roads around the lake, Cap’s Trail and Billie’s Trail, were named for my aunt and uncle Mathilde “Billie” Petersen and Martin “Cap” Petersen. They once owned the land upon which today’s Tait Lake residents have built their homes. The original Tait Lake Lodge, which Cap and Billie built, was their […]
Down Memory Lane
10 YEARS AGO · NOV. 29, 1999 • Someday in 2000 a 911 call will be taken at the Cook County Sheriff ’s Department and a dispatcher will be able to “see” exactly where that call is coming from. The technology that will make that possible was approved for purchase last week by the county commissioners. But it isn’t cheap. […]