Schroeder to honor vets
Cook County Commissioner Bruce Martinson asked the Schroeder Town Board if they would consider placing pictures of active duty service men and women on the walls of the town hall as a way to acknowledge their sacrifice and remember them as they fought for the country. Martinson came before the board on Tuesday, November 8. “This might be a way […]
Despite faculty protests school board votes for superintendent
ISD 166 Superintendent Beth Schwarz will be offered another contract. A lot of input went into the school board’s decision on November 15, 2011, a vote that it was required to make more than six months before a new contract would actually take effect. Former school board member Rod Wannebo spoke up during the public comment period at the beginning […]
County sets priorities for land swap with U.S. Forest Service
What is more important: retaining the ability to keep communication towers in place, gaining the ability to expand fire halls, or obtaining properties that have gravel pits for building county roads and areas suitable for septic disposal? This is a question county commissioners and staff attempted to answer as they prioritized a list of properties the U.S. Forest Service is […]
Forest Service changes BWCA permit lottery
Jim Sanders, forest supervisor for the Superior National Forest, has decided to implement changes to the lottery and reservation system for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW). Local outfitters are “okay” with this change. Forest managers originally planned to eliminate the lottery entirely in 2012 and only run the first-come, first-served system for reserving wilderness permits for all entry […]
Slicing 1 percent pie not easy for county board
The Grand Marais Public Library expansion project is almost complete. The county board has awarded $3.1 million to the Cook County/Grand Marais Economic Development Authority (EDA) for renovations to Superior National at Lutsen Golf Course. The new community center is on ice pending word on whether the City of Grand Marais will contribute financially for its construction and operation. All […]
County Attorney’s Office lands additional attorney
Jane HowardThe County Attorney’s Office is going to get a lot of bang for its buck when it fills a position carved out upon the retirement of Victim/Witness Coordinator Susan Maijala. The county board had agreed to add 15 hours of paralegal work to the half-time grant-funded victim/witness coordinator position and provide the extra funding needed to do so. What they […]
Thanksgiving Eve thoughts
The tap-tap-tapping of a woodpecker hammering at frozen suet wakes me. Outside my window, a blanket of snow covers the ground, but sun shines bright and a sparkly thin sheet of ice glistens on Devil Track Lake. Today I will move the frozen turkey from the freezer to the refrigerator so it can begin its long process of defrosting. I […]
Summer resident Tex Hoy honored by South Dakota Law Review
Attorney Carleton R. “Tex” Hoy, a summertime resident of Devil’s Track Lake, was honored by the South Dakota Law Review, a professional journal, at an annual wine tasting event October 18, 2011 at Shriver’s Square in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The South Dakota Law Review is published by the University of South Dakota School of Law. According to University of […]
