Up the Gunflint for the summer or just a weekend canoe trip? Consider joining the folks at Wilderness Canoe Base for summer chapel services on scenic Fishhook and Dominion Islands of Seagull Lake. Services will be Sundays, June 17 through August 12 beginning at 10 a.m. The canoe base asks attendees to please arrive at 12477 Gunflint Trail no later […]
Fundraising and feasibility on steering committee agenda
At 8 a.m. on Wednesday, June 6, 2012, members of the Cook County Community Steering Committee returned to the Jane Mianowski conference room at Cook County High School where they had gathered the night before for a public input meeting. At the morning meeting, the committee talked about ways to address citizen concerns heard the night before. Fundraising premature? County […]
County establishes Lake Superior-Poplar River Water District
At the Tuesday, June 12 county board meeting, commissioners passed a resolution establishing a Lake Superior-Poplar River Water District recently authorized by state statute in a bonding bill. The legislation authorizes a statefunded grant for construction of a pipeline from Lake Superior to Lutsen Mountains that can be used by property owners along that route. The legislation requires appointment of […]
Down Memory Lane
10 Years Ago · June 14, 2002 A Canadian woman hit the jackpot at Grand Portage casino last Sunday, winning $2,781,236.26 on a $1 “Megabucks” wide-area progressive slot machine. (Or, in Canadian money, $4.3 million.) Joe Morris, slot technician at the casino, was the first on the scene after Barbara Harju rang up her win. He said she was “surprisingly […]
Preserving the history of Mineral Center
Years ago, about six miles up the Mineral Center Road in Grand Portage, there was a thriving community called Mineral Center. There were numerous homes, a store, a garage, a church and a cemetery. The town came to life in the early 1900s, according to Glen Roberts, a descendant of the Linnell family that once lived in Mineral Center. In […]
Schroeder town board discusses Highway 61 improvements with officials from MnDOT
Todd Campbell and Rob Ege from the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) came before the Schroeder town board on June 12 to discuss short-term and long-term maintenance problems for the portion of Highway 61 that runs through Schroeder. Short-term problems include three areas that flood when there is a lot of rain or quick snowmelt. One of those areas is […]
Arrowhead Electric raises concerns over local energy plan proposal
The Cook County Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Plan, developed through a partnership of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, the Grand Marais City Council, and the Cook County Local Energy Project (CCLEP), is complete – almost. On June 12, two weeks after the plan was adopted by the city council, George Wilkes, Virginia Danfelt, Don Grant, and Gary Atwood […]
Rural Minnesota battling metro area for state parks and trails funding
“We got whacked.” That’s what Minnesota Rural Counties Caucus (MRCC) Administrator Dan Larson says of greater Minnesota’s share of the Minnesota Parks and Trails Fund. But he’s fighting for the 80 counties outside of the seven-county Twin Cities metro area, and he achieved remarkable success during this spring’s legislative session. He has also recognized Cook County Commissioner Fritz Sobanja for […]
Amateur Radio Club honors W0BBN
Rick Johnson is a local amateur radio operator and an active member of the Boundary Waters Amateur Radio Club (BWARC). Earlier this spring he received an email from a friend telling him that an interesting old QSL Card was being auctioned on e-Bay. A Grand Marais resident, the late Dr. Wallace “Doc” Smith, had originated the card. Johnson quickly bid […]