With a little bit of fur flying in the commissioners’ room of the courthouse during county board meetings over the last couple of months, the board has decided to look at creating written guidelines for the public comments period of the meeting shortly after the meeting gets started. Opponents of the way the proposed community center project has been approached […]

The official search for missing pilot Michael Arthur Bratlie and his white twin engine Piper PA31 Navajo, a red and blue striped plane, has been discontinued. Bratlie, 67, of Lakeville, Minn., disappeared on Friday evening, June 8, after he didn’t come home from a trip to Duluth. He told family members he was flying from Fleming Field in St. Paul […]

With the planned renovation and expansion of the Cook County Whole Foods Co-op in Grand Marais now taking shape, it has been determined that the beloved mural on the outside north wall has to come down. An architect recently inspected the wall the mural is attached to and determined it couldn’t withstand the re-building and expansion planned for this fall, […]

Arrowhead Electric Cooperative Inc. (AECI) General Manager Jeanne Muntean came under fire at the recent annual meeting and in letters to the editor for expending member dollars before the USDA Rural Utility Service (RUS) had given its stamp of approval on the Arrowhead Electric Cooperative Inc. fiber optic broadband project. Muntean assured concerned cooperative members that the delays in release […]

Cook County Auditor-Treasurer Braidy Powers has written a memo to Cook County department heads with guidelines for preparing their 2013 budgets prior to annual budget hearings that will be held later this summer. While Powers states in the memo that the county is not under levy limits for next year’s budget, he also wrote, “Department heads are directed to budget […]