County appeals to city for help with community center
The Community Center Committee has been laboring for months to design a new facility that will please the greatest number of people for the least amount of money. They have tried to accommodate the wish lists of a wide variety of individuals and groups throughout the community. The proposed facility would cost $11,000,000, which would still leave money for the […]
Community center discussion draws crowd
Well over 100 people packed the county commissioner’s room at the courthouse in Grand Marais on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 to talk about the proposed new community center. Commissioner and Community Center Steering Committee Chair Sue Hakes, who facilitated the meeting, explained that the committee has tried to include as many suggestions from community members as possible in coming up […]
Semi runs off road south of Schroeder
A semi-trailer driven by Ross Townson, 66, of Maxwell, Ontario left Highway 61 and ended up on its side in the ditch on Wednesday, May 11. The 2007 diesel truck was traveling southbound when it ran off the road south of Schroeder in Lake County. Townson told Minnesota State Patrol that he veered to avoid a deer and ran off […]
Schroeder endorses change in Baraga Cross Memorial
In 1846 Father Baraga, a Slovenian priest, and his Ojibwa guide set off by rowboat from LaPointe, Wisconsin to Grand Portage to help with an outbreak of smallpox. But a terrible storm arose and they were blown pell-mell across the lake until they skittered over a sandbar into the quiet mouth of Cross River. In praise for their safety they […]
Home improvement hazards
This issue of the Cook County News-Herald contains our special Spring Home Improvement supplement. As always, we had a lot of fun putting the special insert together. I’m always surprised by how much I enjoy looking for topics, reading the items submitted by our other writers, perusing the ads of the assorted trades people and writing up my own home […]
Community Center plan is a nightmare
The $11 million community center in Grand Marais is a nightmare. Only a select few from a small place, with disturbed ideas, could demand all people to pay for an ambition that will serve only a local select number for years to come. In a select place, creating a fiscal nightmare that will last a lifetime. This is bad from […]
Cross is just a symbol
Thank you, Rhonda, for your restraint, for withholding a perpetual religious testimonial. As it is, Spiritual Reflections would better reflect this community if it included Buddhist, Jewish, Islamic, Native American and the numerous Freethinkers who live here. The Good Friday Cross Walk demonstrates our love of symbols, rituals, parades, and pageantry. It reminds me of a pilgrimage to Mecca, Mardi […]
Older home needed for energy audit
Don Rutledge, housing energy advisor from Thunder Bay, will be in Cook County on Friday, June 24 to teach a class on home renovations for energy conservation. He would like to do an energy audit on an older home near the Community Center with a basement if possible. Based upon the energy audit done, he would make recommendations to the […]