The Arrowhead Library System (ALS) and the North Country Library Cooperative (NCLC), both of Mountain Iron, have announced plans to merge the two agencies. The Arrowhead Library System was established in 1966 and is one of 12 regional public library systems that cover all 87 counties in Minnesota. ALS provides coordination, support, and technology for 29 public libraries in the […]
High school scheduling dependent on class size
Next year’s junior class may be losing some students this year, Superintendent Beth Schwarz told the ISD 166 school board at a February school board meeting. If the class size approaches 30, they may need to reconsider the proposed class schedule. The changes in the sophomore class will be largely due to family situation, she said, but currently, 130 average […]
Down Memory Lane
10 YEARS AGOAPRIL 15, 2002 The county gave a green light to the Cook County North Shore Hospital directors’ request to use $2.3 million in the hospital depreciation fund for remodeling part of the upper level of the hospital and completing the lower level. The commissioners also told the directors that a future request for a formal lease of the […]
Lutsen cabin owner sentenced for child sexual abuse
A Deep Haven, Minnesota man with a link to Cook County’s North Shore was charged in January 2010 with sexually abusing a 15-yearold boy. William Allan Jacobs, 68, a former captain of the Minneapolis Park Police, owns a cabin on Cascade Beach Road in Lutsen. More than two years after being charged, Williams was finally sentenced Monday, April 9, to […]
Single car accident damages retaining wall in Grand Marais
Residents in the area of Third Avenue West in Grand Marais were awakened by a “screech and crash” at 3:00 a.m. on Monday, April 10. Cook County Law Enforcement received calls reporting that a white car had crashed into the embankment at the intersection of Third Avenue West and First Street. Sheriff deputies responded and found that the driver, Brian […]
Next big Poplar River sediment project under way this spring
The largest of four Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant projects intended to reduce sediment in the Poplar River—the Ullr Tightline Project—is going to start this spring. Edwin E. Thoreson Inc. is under contract to complete the project. It will involve installing a 130,000-gallon collection basin, 1,050 feet of pipe, a 10,000- gallon concrete energy dissipater, and riprap and re-vegetating the […]
Comments invited for 2 new radio towers
The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) Office of Electronic Communications has applied for a special-use permit to construct two new radio towers and replace two existing towers for the operation and maintenance of the Allied Radio Matrix for Emergency Response (ARMER) system on national forest system lands. One of the new towers is proposed to be constructed near a former […]
Everything but the kitchen sink
The messy pile before me is enormous and took all morning to sort. A myriad of summer clothing sprawls across my bed. T-shirts, denim shorts and flip-flops… What to bring on vacation? How many longsleeved T’s? Will I really wear shorts? Within half an hour, I’m exhausted from gnashing my teeth and pulling my hair. After the invention of Space […]
Sign up now for Dragon Boat Festival
Summer 2012 is on the horizon and the early registration deadline for the North Shore Dragon Boat Festival has been extended to May 1. Thirteen teams are already signed up and expanded opportunities for individual and family paddlers are available. Now’s the time to gather friends and extended family, coworkers, exercise buddies and church groups to make plans for July […]