The Cook County Community Fund is a community resource dedicated to building a permanent endowment to support nonprofits in the Cook County. Founded in 2003, its creators felt a community fund was the best way to invest in our community’s future, today. Since inception, the Cook County Community Fund has worked with seven nonprofits to create long-term endowments under our […]
Grand Marais/Gunflint Trail great place to bike
I just had a great three day weekend in the Grand Marais/Gunflint Trail region. My son is working this summer up at Tuscarora Outfitters, and I wanted to visit him. Over the three days I biked 130 miles, did one short hike and a canoe trip. I have an animated musical slide show via this url: photopeach.com/album/ acr462 The visit […]
Federal response is over-reaction
Thursday afternoon, June 9, we were accosted by two armed federal officials. I was on my property cutting firewood with my wife when I heard a vehicle in our driveway. I stepped out of the woods to investigate and found a U.S. Forest Service SUV rushing up to meet me. An officer in SWAT-like gear (full gun belt, aviator glasses […]
Light bulbs and broadband at Arrowhead Electric annual meeting
For its 58th annual meeting on Saturday, June 11, Arrowhead Electric Cooperative, Inc. took over a portion of the School District 166 campus. Members gathered for pancakes and sausage served by the Cook County girls’ fast pitch softball team and after the hearty breakfast wandered the halls to the Arrowhead Center for the Arts for the business meeting. In between, […]
A joyful anniversary celebration at St. John’s Catholic Church
Members of St. John’s Catholic Church have been busily preparing for an amazing event—the celebration of four landmark events in the Cook County parish. Past and present members are invited to join St. John’s on Saturday, June 25, 2011 as it celebrates a 30th, 50th, a 75th and a 100th anniversary. Father Seamus Walsh has researched and created a wonderful […]
Green leaves and bugs
Neuroscientist Oliver Sacks writes about a man who appeared to be in a coma for decades. Then his doctors figured out that he was not brain dead but cold—in a kind of hibernating state. They treated him and he came back to life— memory intact, able to talk and move—almost as if he’d been asleep for the winter like one […]
Lives Remembered
Carolyn E. Engebretson, 73, of Rochert, Minnesota, died Thursday, June 9, 2011 at her home under the care of her sons and friends with help from Hospice of the Red River Valley. Carolyn was born on July 11, 1937, the daughter of Henry and Mabel (Berglund) Lindskog in Duluth, Minnesota. She was raised in Grand Marais. Carolyn attended Maple Hill […]
Historical Reflections
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