Zoning concern—growing number of property owners living in their RVs
Will the county board be sympathetic to property owners who are using their RVs as though they were cabins? The question came up at the county board meeting on March 22 when an Interim Use Permit was considered regarding an RV trailer on a 1.75-acre parcel on Greenwood Lake. If approved by the county board, this would be the first […]
Community center planning—
what’s in and what’s out?Plans for the new community center are moving forward, ORB Management President Tom Wacholz told the county board on March 22. The Community Center Steering Committee will soon be deciding where the facility will be located, the amenities it will house, the components of its mechanical and electrical systems, and what the building will look like. Wacholz said the committee […]
School deliberates administrative cuts
As enrollment continues to decline at ISD 166, Superintendent Beth Schwarz continues to look for ways to cut the budget while continuing to offer a wide variety of classes and keep things running smoothly. On March 14, the school board held a work session at which they discussed numerous scenarios for cutting administrative staff/student support costs by at least $100,000 […]
Forest Service open house on “Lima Green”
The U.S. Forest Service Gunflint District is developing a proposal for vegetation management activities dubbed the “Lima Green Project.” This project area includes a portion of the Gunflint Trail approximately seven miles in length between Swamper Lake and the South Brule River crossing. District personnel have been meeting with Gunflint Trail Scenic Byway Committee members and discussing ways vegetation management […]
Koch brothers tag team takes on unions
A recent radio poll asked who the next Republican presidential candidate might be. Pawlenty? Bachman? Palin? Let’s call a spade a spade and put the Koch brothers in. They’re the ones behind all this hullabaloo anyway. Last summer a New Yorker article about the Koch brothers kept me awake for nights. Koch Industries, the multi-billion dollar oil conglomerate, funds their […]
Union members are friends and neighbors
In response to the Gitche Gitche Gumee cartoon in the March 19 issue: My father was a union member, and he was no thug. A significant portion of the readership of the Herald are public employees and union members, and they are not thugs. In fact, although Carson may consider union members thugs, most of us consider teachers and other […]
Protecting collared black bears is imperative
How disturbing it has been to see many articles written regarding Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Tom Landwehr’s refusal to make it illegal to shoot a radio-collared bear. The research being done on all collared bears is imperative to their survival and the research work being conducted by Dr. Lynn Rogers is unprecedented. He has opened the eyes of […]
Arrowhead Electric board members pay themselves well
I’ve heard that the cells which form moose antlers grow faster than any known tissue. There is one other thing in Cook County that rivals that growth rate…the financial compensation for Arrowhead Electric Cooperative board members. While many compensation packages in both the private and public sectors have held the line or actually decreased in these hard financial times, the […]
