The old Moosehorn Bed and Breakfast sold last November. I was fortunate enough to be one of the carpenters remodeling it this past winter and it looks great. The old Victorian feel has been replaced with pine walls and hickory floors. John and Rose Schloot are part owners of this resort and you may recognize their names from the Pig […]
Community Calendar
Cook County AA Meetings Mondays: Open Meeting, 7:30 PM, Grand Marais Senior Center (1st Monday of the month is potluck/speaker meetings. Potluck at 6:30 PM and speaker at 7:30). Tuesdays: Big Book Study Group, Open Meeting, 6:00 PM, First Congregational Church in Grand Marais. Wednesdays: 12 Step Study Meeting, 6:30 PM, Arrowhead Electric Co-op building, Lutsen. Thursdays: Women’s Meeting, Noon, […]
West End Calendar
Tofte Town Meeting program Held the 2nd Thursday of each month, 7:00 p.m. at the Tofte Town Hall, 7240 Tofte Park Road. 3/13tfn th ads in th m in newspaper (no Lutsen Township Monthly Meetings Held the third Tuesday of each month at 7 00 p m at the Lutsen Town classified sect on of Hall located at 116 Caribou […]
Smoke blankets Grand Marais as firefighters train
Smoke hung over the city of Grand Marais on Saturday, April 10, 2010 as invaluable live burn training for firefighters took place at a home at 406 First Avenue East from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Theplan of firefighters and instructors was to conduct training while burning the house to the ground. However, Grand Marais Fire Chief Ben Silence, incident […]
School science project causes school evacuation
A science experiment resulted in the evacuation of the Grand Marais campus of School District 166 on Tuesday, April 13. At 2:04 p.m., Cook County Law Enforcement received an automated alarm from the school at 101 West 5th Street reporting a general fire alarm. The alarm—and smoke in the school building’s upper hallway—set evacuation of the school in motion and […]
Moisture content in forest at record low– fire danger high
With low snowfall over the winter and a warm, dry spring, fire danger becoming very high. Superior National Forest District Ranger Dennis Neitzke reported to the Cook County Board of Commissioners Tuesday, April 13, 2010 that moisture content in the largest forest fire fuel – dead wood – is at a record low. It is even lower than the moisture […]
