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 PM Step meeting. Thursdays: Women’s Meeting, Noon, […]
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Tofte Town MeetingHeld the 2nd Thursday of each month, 7:00 p.m. at the TofteTown Hall, 7240 Tofte Park Road. 3/12tfnLutsen Township Monthly MeetingsHeld the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. at theLutsen Town Hall located at 116 Caribou Trail. 4/17tfnSchroeder Town MeetingsHeld the second Tuesday of the month at 7:00 p.m. Meetingsare held at Schroeder Town Hall, 124 […]
Community Ed schedules June birding classes
Birds of the North Woods will be presented by Molly Hoffman next month. This class, for beginners to experienced birders, will focus on bird identification using bird song as well as visual sighting. This is a three-day class. Friday will be classroom time with a short presentation on bird song followed by discussion on binoculars, field guides, other birding aids, […]
Mini Relay for Life
Molly Seitsema, Middle School Student Council Member If you have known somebody who has survived cancer, someone who is fighting cancer or who has died of cancer we have a good event for you. You can go to the Mini Relay for Life; we are collecting donations for the American Cancer Society. It is May 18, 12:30 p.m. – 3:00 […]
Mark your calendar for fabulous fishcakes for Birch Grove
A wonderful tradition continues on Tuesday, June 12 at Satellite’s Restaurant in Schroeder. A family-friendly dinner of Marion’s Famous Fishcakes will be served to benefit the Birch Grove Foundation. Call to reserve your seating: on the half hour from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. – 8 p.m. Don’t miss these award-winning fishcakes and fixings. The cost is […]
Community Ed sponsors summer art for kids
Cook County Community Ed will sponsor a summer art program for kids ages 7-12 beginning June 12. Children’s Summer Therapeutic Arts Program with Suzabelle Janicek is a therapeutic art process that will be experienced by each child individually as well as with partners or in groups. Group process will increase socialization, communication skills and trust. Time will be spent each […]
Cool and rainy for fifth annual Ham Run participants
The temperature was in the upper 40s with light rain falling near the end of the fifth annual Ham Run at the end of the Gunflint Trail on Sunday, May 6, 2012. Half marathon participants followed a winding, hilly course from Gunflint Pines Resort & Campground to Tip of the Trail Campground. For runners, these weather conditions were not too […]
Vikings open outdoor track season in Two Harbors
Spring sports are always a challenge in Northeast Minnesota. You might have sun and 70 degrees in March and snow in late April, like this season. Rain showers are frequent. Spring break interrupts practice just when you are getting into shape, and lots of other academic and extracurricular activities pull kids in many directions. But that is all OK, that […]
Early spring is hard on spruce
I don’t recall ever hugging a tree in my life, but it would be a sad day to have all of the spruce die. Traditionally now is the time when our forest begins to “green-up,” but many places are turning red. The premature change of season this year might be causing some of the spruce trees to die, or at […]