Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board (IRRRB) Commissioner Tony Sertich announced on August 3, 2011 that applications are being accepted for the new IRRRB Local Business Loan Guaranty program. The program provides an IRRRBbased financial guarantee to local banks which make loans to existing businesses within the agency’s service area. The program provides an IRRRB loan guaranty of up to […]
Pagami Creek fire fading
The last official daily update on the Pagami Creek fire was October 22. However, the fire, which was detected on August 18, 2011, continues to smolder and it is being carefully monitored by air. Kurt Schierenbeck, with the U.S. Forest Service Gunflint Ranger District, said there are still a “handful” of people on the ground, collecting all the hose and […]
Icy roads cause two-car crash, rollover
Ice on the road caused a number of vehicle accidents on Saturday, October 29—two in the exact same spot on the Gunflint Trail. The first accident was reported when Philip Christopher Larson, 26, Stillman Valley, Illinois, called Cook County Law Enforcement at 7:04 a.m., requesting the phone number for a tow truck because he had rolled his 1994 GMC Sonoma. […]
Thompson released from NERC
Kevin Robert Thompson, 53, was released from Northeast Regional Corrections Center (NERCC), on November 4, 2011 and will remain on home monitoring for one year as part of his original sentencing. On July 7, 2010, Thompson was sentenced to two years at NERC, earning early release after successfully completing sex offender treatment. In May 2009, Thompson was arrested for allegedly […]
ISD 166 looks at needs of Native American students
The school board was met with an interested and engaged audience at its October meeting, held in Grand Portage, attended by residents from as far away as the end of the Gunflint Trail and as near as the Grand Portage neighborhood. Grand Portage residents discussed several issues with the school board that they thought were pertinent to their kids. With […]
New Beginnings
Lori and Mark Sundman of Rogers, along with Steve (Lori) Fuhrman of Coon Rapids, announce the upcoming wedding of their daughter, Jamie Fuhrman, to Dan Hedburg, son of Dave and Deb Hedburg of Otsego. Jamie is the granddaughter of Ruthie and the late Wesley Backlund, formerly of Grand Marais. Jamie and Dan both graduated from Rogers High School in 2007. […]
Thomas V. Byholm,
51, of Grand Marais died Monday, October 31, 2011 at his home. He was born June 1, 1960 to Virgil and Mary Jane (Noskowiak) Byholm in Grand Marais. Tom graduated from Glidden High School, Glidden, WI in 1978. In 1979 he enlisted in the US Army, leaving the service in 1987. He has worked as an automotive technician since 1999 […]
Olga Erickson,
99, of Grand Marais, passed away peacefully Friday, October 29, 2011 in the Cook County North Shore Care Center. Olga, the daughter of the late Ole and Anna Allen, grew up in Grand Marais, received a teaching certificate from Mankato State College and taught in the Tofte School. For years she was the chief operator of the Bell Telephone switchboard, […]