The Cook County softball team started the season on the road in Cromwell on Thursday, April 8. After a decisive 19-2 win on Thursday, the Vikings played the next day at home against the Two Harbors Agates. Playing on little rest, Cook County lost to the Agates 2-14. Despite the long bus trip to Cromwell, the Vikings started strong in […]
One Crazy Spring
My transition from winter to spring has been especially crazy this year. It must have something to do with the early spring weather we have had. It is either the good weather, or I have been too busy to notice that it is already time for baseball and softball games! As usual, basketball ended in March and I instantly got […]
Vikings win first two on the diamond
The Cook County baseball team started the season with impressive back-to-back wins over Polar League opponents Cromwell and Two Harbors this past week. On Thursday April 8, the Vikings traveled to Cromwell and tore up the Cardinals 27-1. In the match-up the next day at home against the Agates, the Vikings won in a closely contested 7-6 contest. On the […]
Lives Remembered
Long-time Grand Marais resident Dorothy (Jaenisch) Almlie died peacefully, April 5, 2010, at the Park Plaza Care Center in St. Louis Park, MN. Dorothy was born Oct. 11, 1917 in Johnson, MN, a small town in Big Stone County. Her father, Benjamin Jaenisch, built his first feed mill there, where the family lived until about 1930, when they relocated to […]
No vote, no taxation
In a letter to the editor in your April 3 paper, I read that seasonal property owners support schools. As an owner in Lutsen for over 25 years we should not pay for any tax for the community because the state will not allow us to vote. We have no say in the community; we have to just keep paying. […]
Why is government pushing broadband?
I have had a feeling in my gut about all the glowing stories provided by local proponents regarding broadband so I started researching the possible down sides. My first question is— why is the government so interested in all of us having it? When we are told we should all have access and there are grants (money which the government […]
Industrial Arts program important to community’s future
It has come to my attention that the Grand Marais high school is anticipating cutting the Industrial Arts program. I am very disappointed in the line of thinking for various reasons. Children today need a well-rounded curriculum to compete in this world. With only 25 percent of our students going on to college, I feel we need to enhance the […]
The Bible validates its authorship
In answer to Lou Jenson’s April 10 letter Men, not God make the rules. “Jesus gave some sound advice”—but, according to our atheist friends, He provided no “sound evidence” as to His deity; and “Atheists look for evidence.” Consider the Pharisees. They never questioned the validity of Jesus’ miracles. Even his enemies didn’t question the validity of Jesus miracles. They […]
Charter schools in county remain property tax exempt
Charter schools in Cook County have been exempt from paying property taxes for several years, the result of debate on the state level. A moratorium on taxes for the county’s charter schools was set under former Cook County Assessor Ted Mershon as the state tried to decide the status of charter schools and property taxes. Last week, Eugene Piccolo, executive […]
