Saying five years was enough, Cook County/ Grand Marais Joint Economic Development Authority (EDA) Chairman Mike Littfin said it was time to give up the gavel—if he actually had a gavel—and turn his duties over to someone else. Mark Sandbo replaced Littfin at the EDA’s annual organizational meeting on February 14. Littfin was praised by the board and EDA Director […]
Subcommittee hearing set for reimbursement to Minnesota Chippewa
When U.S. Representative Chip Cravaack held a town hall meeting in Grand Portage last fall, one of the things the new congressman did was to ask members of the crowd about their concerns. After taking several questions about the proposed non-ferrous mining on the Iron Range, Grand Portage Tribal Council member John Morrin asked Cravaack about the $20 million that […]
Down Memory Lane
10 Years AgoFeb. 25, 2002 A proposal to rename a Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCAW) lake within Cook County borders after an Ojibwe chief of the Boise Forte Band is gathering momentum. If Brian Klawiter has his way, Bat Lake will one day be called Bashitanequab Lake. Klawiter is with the Heritage Resources Center in Duluth and noticed that the […]
Great River Energy buys refinery that makes fuel out of corn
Great River Energy recently purchased a 51 percent share of Blue Flint Ethanol in Underwood, North Dakota, a plant that refines yellow corn into biofuel. Arrowhead Electric Cooperative Inc., which provides energy to rural Cook County, is a member of Great River Energy. The company previously owned 49 percent of Blue Flint Ethanol. The Blue Flint Ethanol biorefinery produces two […]
Going viral….
I am sure by now many of you have watched the YouTube video of the dad wearing a cowboy hat ceremoniously putting several bullets through his daughter’s laptop. He did this because he was upset that she shared her teenage angst on the Internet. I personally don’t agree with his methods or his madness. Hmmmm…let’s teach my daughter not to […]
12th Annual Inuit Premiere set for March 17
Sivertson Gallery opens its 12th Annual Inuit Premiere in Grand Marais on Saturday, March 17 with worldrenowned Inuit artist David Ruben Piqtoukun. Also at the gallery that day will be throat singers Nina Segalowitz and Lydia Etok, coming from the North West Territories and Nunavik (Arctic Quebec). The annual Inuit Premiere is the only one of its kind in the […]
Children’s totem pole project at GM library March 9
The Grand Marais Public Library invites children and their caretakers to create their own totem pole of clay with Creativity Tank at the library at 10 a.m. March 9. The Creativity Tank Studio, run by artist Staci Taylor, will work with children to tell their life stories in clay totems while learning the theories behind these sculptures. Totem poles are […]
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Cook County AA Meetings Mondays: Open Meeting, 7:00 PM, Grand Marais Senior Center (1st Monday of the month is desserts and coffee at 6:30 PM and speaker at 7:00 PM.) Tuesdays: Big Book Study Group, Open Meeting, 6:00 PM, First Congregational Church in Grand Marais. Wednesdays: At Trinity Lutheran in Hovland at 6:00 p.m. Step meeting. Thursdays: Women’s Meeting, Noon, […]
Vikings beat Wrens, fall to Lions
Brian Larsen At the 12:34 mark Viking David Bergstrom pulled up and drained a 10-foot basket, putting the Vikings up 9-7 over a feisty Wrenshall Wren team. The two teams met in Grand Marais on Friday, February 17, and until that point, the Wrens had been playing the Vikings even. But the next 7 minutes and 4 seconds would tell […]