Grants through Blandin Foundation’s Minnesota Intelligent Rural Communities initiative to promote the development of broadband applications have resulted in an application for a new 501c3 nonprofit in Cook County called boreal.TV. According to its website, boreal. TV, “Boreal.TV is a collaborative effort to create a public access community video/ TV network in Cook County, Minnesota. Our goal is to use […]
Security assessment for Cook County Courthouse
A contract for a professional assessment of security needs at the Cook County Courthouse was approved by the county board on April 14 at a cost not to exceed $5,000. The work will begin in May. Steve Swenson of the Center for Judicial and Executive Security of St. Paul will evaluate the structure, meet with personnel, review existing policies and […]
Lake Superior – Lutsen Mountain pipeline project still in bonding discussion
The effort to include the Lake Superior-Poplar River Water District and pipeline project in upcoming bonding bills continues to move forward. Judith Erickson, government relations specialist for Lutsen Mountains, said when the Minnesota Legislature returned from its 10-day Easter/Passover break one of the remaining pieces of legislation pending was the 2012 Capitol bonding bill which includes funding in some form […]
Redistricting process under way
Some Cook County residents might be happy about the possibility of being in a new county commissioner district due to population changes over the last decade. Some might not. Working out the details of equalizing the number of constituents in each district as much as possible as required by law has been in the hands of Cook County Auditor-Treasurer Braidy […]
Down Memory Lane
10 YEARS AGOAPRIL 22, 2002 High school baseball fans will not be able to see the Vikings play at home this season. While the original 2002 schedule included eight home games, it was announced last week that all of those games have been rescheduled as away games. Why the change? “The field is unsafe,” said CCHS Athletic Director Lyle Anderson. […]
Forum reflects on the impact of mining in the Lake Superior watershed
What is an acceptable cost to the environment for extracting minerals from the earth to make products such as steel, used in everyday American life? What is an acceptable cost to a region or nation’s economy for not allowing mining in order to eliminate risks to the environment? This was the topic of discussion at a quarterly meeting of the […]
High resolution aerial images of your neighbor — and you—coming soon
A bevy of Cook County employees appeared before the county board on April 10 to discuss their request for highresolution photographs of 775 square miles of Cook County land. The board approved an expenditure of $187,000 for the work on March 27 but was asked at this meeting to authorize the signing of a contract with Pictometry, an aerial photography […]
Just Pin It!
Back in the ’50s getting pinned meant you were going steady with a boy. In my day getting pinned was my brother sitting on my chest until I let him pick the TV show for the evening—between you and me it wasn’t a good thing. Sometimes tears were involved, usually mine, but I got a good kick in every now […]
2012 Ham Run registration now open
It’s time to register for the Gunflint Trail’s Ham Run Half-Marathon and 5k Fun Half-Marathon, which is scheduled for May 6, 2012. Do you still have what it takes to run the Trail less traveled? If you’ve run it before then you know it isn’t an easy race and finishing times pushing 90 minutes demonstrate the amount of stamina it […]