Before leaving the area upon completion of Highway 61 roadwork, KGM Construction patched some potholes along the Sawbill Trail at the request of the Cook County Highway Department. The holes were transformed into mounds, however, but the road is better than it was before, Maintenance Supervisor Russell Klegstad reported to the county board Tuesday, July 13, 2010. He does not […]
Food Shelf seeks volunteers
The Food Shelf is in need of some volunteers to distribute food to clients during the open hours of 3 to 5 p.m. every Monday. The Food Shelf is located in the lower level of the First Congregational Church (3rd Avenue and 2nd Street). Everyone is busy in the summer months, but hunger does not take a vacation; please consider […]
Support growing for Dick Joynes memorial flag in Harbor Park
An idea has been simmering at Blue Water Café—what Gene Erickson termed “the headquarters of Grand Marais”—that would honor a deeply loved community member and invite opportunities for others to be honored as well. Erickson and Park Johnson asked the Grand Marais Park Board Tuesday, July 6, 2010 to consider allowing the Blue Water coffee club to erect a high-quality […]
UM-Crookston cost-benefit analysis of EDA nearly complete
In June, two good-natured representatives of the University of Minnesota’s Economic Development Department attended the Cook County – Grand Marais Economic Development Authority (EDA) meeting. The duo, Kenneth Johnson and Chris Roberts of the U. of M. Crookston campus, chuckled at the agenda item that said they were to give a presentation. “We are not hear to talk to you,” […]
Local property owner sentenced in Peeping Tom case
Sex offender treatment was the order of the day for Lee Sorenson, a 54-year-old Twin Cities man with property in Cook County who pled guilty to peeping into the windows of a Cook County family a year ago. Under a plea agreement, Sorenson’s conviction was reduced from a gross misdemeanor to a misdemeanor. In court on July 7, 2010, Cook […]
Canadian with illegal drug accidentally crosses into U.S.
Benoit Morin, 29, of Drummondville, Quebec might be more careful about his directions next time he travels the Trans Canada Highway. On June 29, 2010, he and a female friend unknowingly went the wrong way off the Trans Canada Highway and ended up crossing the U.S.-Canadian border at Pigeon River. That wouldn’t have been so bad had he not been […]
Teamwork rescues injured woman in BWCAW
A 23-year-old nurse’s canoe trip into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) was cut short when a fall resulted in a broken ankle—and a wellorchestrated rescue effort on Thursday, July 8. The woman and her party were four portages away from the wilderness entry point on Sawbill Lake in Tofte, on the 180-rod portage out of Cherokee Lake when […]
A small talk with Ray Nagy
The Cook County Historical Society will host a “small talk” with Ray Nagy at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 24 at the Historical Society Museum on Broadway Avenue in Grand Marais. Nagy was in the US Coast Guard and on a rescue mission during the fateful storm in November 1958 when commercial fishermen Hammer and Aakvik were lost at sea. Nagy […]