Cook County North Shore Hospital Board Member Tom Spence told the Tofte Town Board that now might be the best time to join forces with Schroeder and Lutsen to look at applying for grants and loans that would be used to build a small senior assisted living complex in the West End. “For the last 18 months you have been […]
Down Memory Lane
10 Years Ago · Oc t. 22, 2001 A commercial over-the-road truck carrying a payload labeled “cornstarch” was stopped at the border Oct. 10 by U.S. Customs agents. The officers in Grand Portage seized over 10 million pseudoephedrine tablets from the truck and arrested two individuals. When used properly, the drug is taken as a nasal decongestant. Drug dealers, however, […]
Historical Reflections
Way up north in the county of Cook, near the middle of the 20th Century, a group of 31 young and wonderfully hopeful students graduated from Grand Marais High School. They were the last class to graduate from the “old school.” Future classes graduated from the “new” high school and, later the name of the school was changed to Cook […]
Historical Society requests 1 percent tax funding
On behalf of the Cook County Historical Society, Board Chair Gene Erickson made a formal request to the Cook County board on October 18, 2011 for up to $350,000 from 1 Percent Recreation and Infrastructure Tax revenue. The society would like to build a 1,152-square-foot addition to the historical society museum on Broadway in downtown Grand Marais. The proposed 24’x28’ […]
Investigation of possible trail sabotage under way
A Colvill musher contacted Cook County Law Enforcement on Sunday, October 2, reporting possible sabotage of a trail used for training sled dogs in the Trout Lake area of Grand Marais. Frank Moe told law enforcement that he believed someone had purposely put trees and branches across the trail off the Trout Lake Road. Moe said he was knocked off […]
Grand Marais hunter injured in fall
A Grand Marais man fell and struck his head while hunting on Saturday, October 15, inadvertently setting off a major police and emergency medical response. Tim MacDonell of Grand Marais was discovered by a passing motorist on the roadside approximately three miles north of Hedstrom Lumber on the Gunflint Trail. To make the call for help, the motorist had to […]
Rising with the roosters
I am not sure what is going on lately but I have been waking up at 5:00 a.m. every morning for the past couple of weeks. I don’t really need to be up until 6:00 or 6:30 a.m. so I know it’s not my alarm clock waking me up. It’s like I have an internal rooster crowing at me! The […]
Grand Marais Art Colony among 2011 Touchstone Awards winners
The Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation awarded its 2011 Touchstone Awards at the Duluth Entertainment Center (DECC). Among the recipients was the Grand Marais Art Colony. Grand Marais Art Colony and Second Harvest Northern Lakes Food Bank were honored in the category of “generosity” for their efforts to feed the hungry in 2009, when the need for food spiked with […]
