As an editor, I can understand the rationale that led to a decision to cut some of the words out of a rendition of the Pledge of Allegiance at the U.S. National golf tournament. NBC, the network broadcasting the tournament, had a nice idea, adding the pledge to the golf tournament’s opening ceremony. Someone spent a great deal of time […]
Vintage Airstream sets out from Lutsen on yet another journey
A mind is a terrible thing to waste. So is an old Airstream. A sleek, aerodynamic silver bullet that’s been around the block a few times. A trailer that is believed to have been to Canada and Mexico with Wally Byam, the inventor of the Airstream. A trailer that just took a big cargo ship ride to England where it […]
Library relocated while renovations under way
The Grand Marias Public Library has left its downtown site at 104 Second Avenue West and is settling in to its temporary space at Cook County High School. The library closed for one week and in that time managed to move books, computers, office equipment, and furniture to the former district office and Jane Mianowski Conference Center. Library Director Linda […]
More info needed for new directory featuring nonprofits
A free directory featuring Cook County volunteer and nonprofit groups is coming together, but more information is needed. Leaders of these groups are urged to contact Northern Wilds Media Inc. to participate in the directory and receive a form via e-mail to enter their organization’s information. So far about half of the county’s 100- plus nonprofit organizations have filled out […]
Am I up to the task?
Spiritual reflectionsI have been a priest in the Catholic Church for 45 years this summer, and all of those years, with the exception of a few years as Newman Chaplain at UMD, I have been in parish ministry. I hope in those years I have grown on the job, that my spiritual life has deepened, that I am wiser now than […]
Son’s Rays celebrate 40 years: 1971-2011
To be celebrating 40 years since the inception of the Son’s Rays choir seems impossible to Dode Stoskopf, the director of this group, and it seems impossible to anyone who was in the Rays! No one knew the group that began with six scared seventhgrade girls gathered around the baptismal font in the back of Bethlehem Lutheran Church would be […]
Church Services Schedule
Bay Area Vineyard in Grand MaraisWhere friends become familyCook County Community Center /4-H Building6: 00 p.m., 2nd and 4th SundaysAll welcome. Come as you are. Great worship, coffee and fellowship.Pastors Gerry and Shelley CheneyBETHLEHEM LUTHER AN (ELCA)1st Ave. W. & 5th St., Grand Marais . 387-2227Sunday 9:30 a.m. Worship . 10:30 a.m. Coffee & FellowshipWednesday Service: 6:30 p.m.Rev. Mark DitmansonCORNERS […]
Pavilion and porta-potties at Schroeder Town meeting
With keen eyes and tape measure in hand, Clerk Carol Tveekrem and Cook County Commissioner Bruce Martinson measured the town board meeting room to get a handle on just how big they [the town board] should make a new pavilion for the town’s picnic area. And although the taping went well, Handy Andy’s job was clearly not in jeopardy. The […]
Down Memory Lane
10 Years Ago • July 2, 2001 Most of the items sold on June 21 at Hedstrom Lumber Company’s Two Harbors auction went for less than expected, which was good news for those buying, but less than great news for Hedstrom, who closed the Two Harbors mill in mid-February. Everything from trucks to oil filters, hand tools and larger ticket […]