The residents at North Shore Care Center are getting into the spirit of the season with holiday crafts, decorating, and more baking. Ethel Johnson will make homemade lefse on December 8 and Friday Bake Days will be busier than usual as residents prepare for the annual Christmas Eve party with families, Santa, and Mrs. Claus. Spirits will be lifted with […]

“We love to have kids around,” Bev Green said while discussing recent improvements and new programs at the Grand Marais Senior Center. “In fact, we feel like this is more of a community center than a senior center.” Most people know about the center’s lunch program and its meals on wheels for seniors who are home bound. And all of […]

With about 30 published novels under her belt, Susan May Warren of Colvill could afford to rest on her laurels – except that they keep stacking up all around her, and she can’t seem to sit still long enough to rest on them. This year Warren, who writes Christian fiction, won two major awards from the American Christian Fiction Writers, […]

Both feeder watchers and walking/ driving birders are needed for the 2010 Audubon Christmas Bird Count (CBC). Thecount will be held Saturday, Dec. 18 for the Grand Marais count, which consists of a 7.5-mile radius circle from a point three miles south of the middle of Devil Track Lake. The count circle covers Highway 61 to Lindskog Road and north, […]

You can receive great discounts all year round with local businesses who support youth programs by offering anyone purchasing a $15 KIDS PLUS saver card a discount at their store. It’s a great gift for a parent, spouse or grandparent. Due to the generosity of these businesses, it more than pays for itself during the year. You may purchase cards […]

Thatis the motto of the Knowledge Bowl program and both the Cook County Middle School and Junior Varsity Knowledge Bowl teams appear to live by that motto. Both teams fared well in the challenging and thought-provoking competitions at the Northeast Service Cooperative in Mountain Iron, MN. Middle School finishes 4th Entering the final tournament, the Middle School team, after three […]

The Cook County/Silver Bay Girls Alpine Ski team begins to defend its 2010 Section 7 Championship title with the first meet of the 2010/11 season at Lutsen Mountains on December 10. Can the Viking girls repeat their daunting task? Well, the entire championship team from last year returns and expectations are high. Returning are seniors: team Captain Molly Rider, Ali […]

Caleb White, youth worker at the Evangelical Free Church and Jamie Ryan, youth worker for Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Grand Marais, took 20 high school students to the Twin Cities in August. One of their mission projects was to work at the packing site of Feed My Starving Children (FMSC). These youths came back to Grand Marais excited and began […]

Although most people know Frank Lehto as the Grand Marais postmaster, he has also worn a variety of hats over the years—when he retired from the military this November, he had worn the uniform of four branches of the military. Lehto, an Esko, MN native, began his military career when he joined the Navy right out of high school. He […]