Since this issue hits mailboxes the day after April Fool’s Day, I thought I should write a silly column. And there is not much sillier than the “stuff” we scatter throughout the Cook County News-Herald that the reader never sees. Or that the reader hopefully never sees. The “stuff” is temporary placeholders that we use while laying out the paper. […]
2010 lodging tax revenue higher than previous year
The Grand Marais Area Tourism Association saw more revenue from lodging taxes in 2010 than it had seen in any of the previous five years. The $196,118 that wasgeneratedwasa6percentincrease over the previous year’s revenue. The Gunflint Trail Tourism Association saw an increase of 5.7 percent over the previous year, with an income of $94,573. The greatest amount it received between […]
Upward trend in fuel costs and business at hospital
The high cost of heating is showing up on Cook County North Shore Hospital books, but offsetting that cost was an increase in business in several departments over the first two months of 2011. Hospital Controller Yvonne Gennrich told the board that while expenses remain about the same, revenue fluctuates, and revenue is what makes a difference with the bottom […]
Cook County offers more information on prescription discounts
Cook County has launched a discount card program to help consumers cope with the high price of prescriptions. The county is making free prescription drug discount cards available under a program sponsored by the National Association of Counties (NACo) that offers average savings of 24 percent off the retail price of commonly prescribed drugs. The cards may be used by […]
New Beginnings
Jim Nocita and Lorie Nocita, both of Omaha, Neb., and Dean and Marietta Berneking of Grand Marais are pleased to announce the engagement of their children, Mandie and Trevor. Mandie went to high school in Omaha and went on to receive a bachelor of fine arts degree in graphic design at Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph, Mo., where […]
What can I do? Nothing!
There’s an interesting Website that I’ve logged onto a few times called The Global Rich List. One simply types in how much your annual income is and it calculates out how your income compares to all of the other people living around the world. I was curious, and so I keyed in our family’s income. I learned that I am […]
Joshua Kaleb Jorgenson,
Joshua Kaleb Jorgenson, beloved son, brother, uncle and friend, passed away on March 26, 2011 due to complications from Addison’s Disease. Josh was born February 18, 1982. Josh grew up in Grand Marais and graduated from Cook County High School in 2000. When not playing video games, he worked for his parents at the Java Moose. Josh’s true kindness and […]
Gladys Augusta Rindahl,
Gladys Augusta Rindahl, 86, passed away peacefully March 23, 2011 in the North Shore Care Center in Grand Marais. Gladys was born in Milbank, S.D. to Victor and Hilda Anderson on Sept. 27, 1924. She shared the same birthday with her mother, Hilda, and daughter Deb Berry. The Anderson family moved to their farm in Maple Hill Township, which also […]