Only two weeks remain to enter the Minnesota Cup — a statewide entrepreneurial competition — and anyone with a business idea is encouraged to enter. Now through midnight on Friday, May 21, entries may be submitted at www.minnesotacup. org for a chance to claim a piece of the $130,000 available in prize money across six award divisions: High Tech, BioSciences, […]
Guilty pleas offered in Thompson case
Having negotiated plea agreements in a criminal sexual conduct, kidnapping, false imprisonment, assault, and terroristic threats case, Susan Ann Thompson, 40, and Kevin Robert Thompson, 52, of Grand Marais entered guilty pleas before Judge Kenneth Sandvik on Tuesday, May 11, 2010. Susan Ann Thompson, 40, appeared first, represented by attorney Christopher Stocke who said that his client had filed a […]
Grand Portage armed robbery trial date set
A trial date has been set for Edwin Olaf Vick, 74, of Shakopee, MN. Vick was arrested in the Twin Cities on October 5, 2009 and charged with probable cause related to the armed robbery of the Grand Portage Trading Post. Vick is scheduled to appear before a jury at the Cook County courthouse on July 27, 2010. The robbery […]
Window peeping guilty plea entered
A jury trial was set for a 54-year-old man from Apple Valley, MN charged with interference with privacy; 5th degree assault, inflicting or attempting bodily harm; and trespassing after he was caught peeping into the window of a home on the Croftville Road in Grand Marais. However, the charges were lessened on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 when the defendant, Lee […]
Lutsen cabin owner faces child sexual abuse charges
A Deep Haven, Minnesota man with a link to Cook County’s North Shore was charged in January 2010 with sexually abusing a 15-yearold boy. William Allan Jacobs, 66, a former captain of the Minneapolis Park Police, owns a cabin on Cascade Beach Road in Lutsen. As Jacobs awaits his 2×2 & 2×4 ads to October 25 trial 17 other young […]
Robert Bly encourages, challenges, enchants
“All the sailors on deck have been blind for many years. … All the sailors on deck have been blind for many years.” Such were the words of poet Robert Bly May 5, 2010 at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts. He read and recited poems he has written over the course of his life, repeating many of his phrases, […]
Quetico— Near to Nature’s Heart
In his book Quetico—Near to Nature’s Heart Jon Nelson’s love and knowledge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) sister park is demonstrated to be vast. Note, Nelson is an avid storyteller and fills the book with witty, sometimes whimsical stories of people and legends and tales of animals and birds. But he is also a scientist, and at […]
Grand Marais Lioness Club welcomes three new members
The Grand Marais Lioness Club is happy to welcome three new club members—Gwen Lenz, Suzy Eklin, and Chris McClure. Gwen Lenz has lived in Grand Marais for 14 years. She and her husband moved here from the south side of Chicago. Gwen is actively involved in many local community organizations. She is a member of the Library Friends and the […]
Stellar performance earns Excellent and Superior honors for Viking Band
The Cook County High School Band had another outstanding performance at the State Music Competition in Virginia on April 30. Juggling a track meet and a playhouse performance that were all scheduled the same day as the competition, the band nonetheless outdid itself, lending their talents to the pieces Into the Raging River by Steven Reineke and Rumble on the […]
