Fire hall expansion tops full agenda at Lutsen Annual Meeting
The big ticket item discussed at the March 13, 2012 Lutsen Township Annual Meeting was the expansion/ renovation of the fire hall and town hall building at the base of the Caribou Trail. Citizens learned that construction bids were much higher than the amount approved at the August 16 town meeting. However, the 40-plus citizens at the meeting gave a […]
Tofte holds annual meeting
Since its regular monthly meeting had just been held on Thursday, March 8, there was little new discussion at the To.fte annual meeting on March 13 at the Birch Grove Community Center. See page A7 for more Tofte news. Election results were announced with no surprise. Township Supervisor Paul James received 14 votes to retain his spot on the board […]
Planning commission approves rezoning requests, denies PUD proposal
The Grand Marais Planning Commission approved two requests for zoning map amendments at its March 7 meeting but denied a third request that called for rezoning, preliminary plat approval and a conditional use permit. David Parsons and Tom Hansen appeared before the commission first, along with their attorney, Richard Swanson. They asked that the C/I (Commercial/Industrial) zoning district be extended […]
Record voter turnout at Schroeder Township elections
Twenty-five people attended the March 13, 2012 Schroeder Township annual meeting, but even more exciting than that was the fact that a record number of people turned out to vote for township offices. The races for township supervisor and clerk weren’t exactly hotly contested, since only one person ran for each open position. Winning all of the 36 votes that […]
Commissioner Hall might not be affected by redistricting
After getting population demographics back from the 2010 U.S. Census, Cook County is ready to look at the possibility of redistricting some of its county commissioner districts. On March 14, 2012, county Auditor-Treasurer Braidy Powers told the News-Herald that Commissioner Jan Hall may not have to run to keep her position as was recently speculated. “There was a change in […]
Rainbows and fairy houses
We normally don’t see rainbows in March in northeastern Minnesota. In fact, it is more likely that we’ll see snow through March than rain. I remember many, many Easters in April that had enough snow to allow decorating snow banks with leftover Easter Egg dye. I don’t think that is going to happen this year. We’re used to seeing Northern […]
Uffda – enough politics!
This political thing is getting real sickening. How long do we have to put up with it? Now one guy says he eats grits and says “y’all.” Here is my idea: Come to northern Minnesota. From here in Cook County you can see Canada, Wisconsin, and Michigan and we will teach whomever shows up to speak “uh,” “eh” and “uffda.” […]
Rush not the only misogynist
Wouldn’t better questions surrounding conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh’s misogynistic statements about a Georgetown law student (terrible and without excuse) and the highly publicized public outcry for getting his radio show sponsors to revoke their advertising from his program be: 1. Why does it take a situation from a conservative talk show host to get people and major media outlets […]