Local businessman Jeff Latz appeared before the Lutsen Town Board on Tuesday November 16 to explain a re-zoning request that he is taking to Cook County Planning & Zoning. Latz said he had recently purchased a six-acre parcel behind Clearview Store, approximately 460 feet from Highway 61, which was identified in the Lutsen Town Center planning process in the 1990s […]
Hospital lab strives for state-of-the-art services
Jennifer Backstrom, head of the Cook County North Shore Hospital lab, intends to offer patients state-of-the-art services, even when that requires that her staff learn entirely new ways of doing things. Such is the case with a new system of evaluating blood samples. The lab has purchased equipment that uses a gel to give precise readouts profiling a patient’s blood […]
Depression can increase during holidays
The holiday season is supposed to be a happy time of year, when friends and family gather for parties and gift exchanges. It is also a hectic time of year, when financial worries can cause stress and busy schedules can cause sleep deprivation. It’s normal to sometimes feel a bit out of sorts. Unfortunately, for some people the season can […]
Healthy Steps Group forms in Cook County
On September 1, 2010 Weight Watchers closed its Grand Marais location. Lee Bergstrom had been the Weight Watcher leader in Grand Marais for almost ten years as well as a lifetime member for about 20 years. Members were very frustrated and were feeling abandoned with the closing of this meeting location that had been around for many years prior to […]
Calhoun reps attend important training
Steven L. Bragg and Dawn Leckenby of Calhoun Companies’ Arrowhead office in Lutsen recently returned from a road trip to Las Vegas after attending another International Business Brokerage Association (IBBA) conference and completing another set of continuing education courses presented by the University of Advanced Education for the Business Intermediary. Bragg has been a member of the IBBA since 1996 […]
Calories in, calories out– no longer a formula for health or fitness
Many of us have heard about the growing rate of obesity in America. What’s to be done about it? Perhaps we need to go on a diet so we can get thinner. Not so, says Kathy Kater, LCSW, Ph.D., Twin Cities therapist who specializes in body image, eating, fitness, and weight issues. Dieting often backfires, and being thinner does not […]
Why Weight?
Those little numbers on the bathroom scale can affect the way we feel about our bodies, ourselves, and our lives. Why do they seem so powerful? What would happen if we shifted the way we approached food, eating, exercise…everything? “Why Weight” is a 12-week program that will move you beyond impossible diets and grueling exercise. It’s a combination of: . […]
Help others warm up this holiday season
The Sawtooth Mountain Clinic and Arrowhead Electric Cooperative Inc. are participating with the Cook County Salvation Army Service Unit to provide warm winter clothing to anyone who needs it this Christmas. Hats, gloves, mittens, scarves, jackets, coats, and winter boots, in new or very good condition, may be dropped off at either the Sawtooth Clinic or the Arrowhead Electric Co-op […]
Register now for 2011 Master Gardener course
Sign-up has begun for HORT 1003 Master Gardener Core Course / Horticulture for the Home Garden. This is a series of University of Minnesota classes beginning in January 2011 on horticultural and environmental topics such as soils, plant pathology, entomology, herbaceous ornamentals, fruits and vegetables, trees and others. Course content is researchbased, taught by university experts and geared toward use […]