When was the last time you walked into the kitchen, opened the refrigerator door and just stood there somewhat dazed looking for “something”? You are hungry, but for what? Hmmmm, Greek Yogurt? Nah. Cold bacon, pineapple and black olive pizza? Nah, ah. Left over bean soup? Don’t think so. Maybe peanut butter, jelly and cheese on Davison bread? You close […]
New Beginnings
Sandi Furlow is happy and proud to announce the engagement of her daughter, Cassandra Furlow to Apurva Pangam, son of Narayan and Shamal Pangam. Cassandra was proposed to on her birthday, May 23, in India at the Taj Mahal. Weddings will be held sometime in 2013, with one wedding in the United States as well as a traditional wedding in […]
Harmon Seaver
On June 2, 2012, at home with his family in Oshkosh, this cycle of earthly life ended peacefully for Harmon Seaver. He was born Jan. 8, 1943 in Kenosha, Wis., son of Harmon and Evelyn (Wilson) Seaver. He spent his formative years in Mississippi and South Carolina. His early job as a laborer at the UW-Madison Arboretum promoted his love […]
EDA to seek levy increase for housing program
The Cook County – Grand Marais Economic Development Authority (EDA) spent much of its July 10, 2012 meeting talking about the budget it would be presenting to the county board for approval. However, the EDA had some difficulty developing a budget as it is unsure when it will be hiring a new director and what is ahead for its housing […]
Easements debated for power to the tower in Hovland
The Cook County commissioners’ room was full of people on July 10, 2012 during an extended conversation on how to power a communications tower on state land at the end of Tower Road in Hovland. The State of Minnesota has agreed to pay for power lines to be brought to the tower as it gears up its Allied Radio Matrix […]
Down Memory Lane
10 Years AgoJuly 12, 2002 About 100 firefighters worked Monday and Tuesday to mop up the Greenwood Lake fire that saw as many as 220 firefighters respond to a blaze that five days earlier was thought to be 90 percent contained. The fire, which is believed to have been caused by lightning, was discovered July 2 through aerial detection. At […]
County adopts energy plan
The Cook County Board of Commissioners has joined the City of Grand Marais in adopting an energy plan, but it didn’t come easy for the committee that has been working for months on the project. At the July 10, 2012 county board meeting, George Wilkes of the Cook County Local Energy Project (CCLEP) reminded the board that the energy committee […]
Wolf Ridge celebrates installation of biomass boilers
Cook County residents from Schroeder to Grand Portage turned up at Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center in Finland, Minnesota on June 29 for a day of tours and speeches and a ribbon-cutting ceremony inaugurating a new biomass pellet boiler system. Along with Cook County residents and business and organizational heads from Minnesota to Italy were a couple of prominent public […]
Life lessons from a Model A Ford
Gunflint Trail resident Robert R. Olson thinks he might have been about 10 years old when his dad and his grandpa taught him to drive their family’s treasured Model A Ford pickup. Mastery of the extremely complicated maneuvers involved in keeping the engine running was just one of the many skills Olson acquired as a result of that vehicle. It […]