In the evening and very slowly is the best way to water a garden, and that’s what I’m doing. Rustling leaves in the nearby woods catch my attention. Too small a noise to be that of a deer, the sounds must be something little. I turn from the spray of water I am directing at my potato patch in time […]
Layne Kennedy wins award for Lake Superior storm photo
Layne Kennedy has been around the world photographing everything from pink dolphins in the Amazon to Inuit hunters traveling by dogsled in Greenland. His images have appeared in Smithsonian, National Geographic Traveler, Sports Illustrated, Newsweek, dOutside, Forbes, New York Times, The Washington Post, Backpacker, and more. He has contributed to numerous books and has published six of his own. In […]
Library Friends annual book sale set for Aug. 2 – 4
The annual book sale sponsored by Library Friends of Cook County will be held Thursday, Aug. 2 through Saturday, Aug. 4 at the Community Center. Thursday night is for Library Friends members only between 5 and 7 p.m. Memberships will be sold at the center one hour prior to the sale on Thursday afternoon. The hours on Friday are 8 […]
Jazz and comedy in July
The Grand Marais Playhouse is excited to announce a very special event at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts on Saturday, July 21. The skyBLUEtrio and theORANGEgirl, with guest Al Anderson, will perform A Century of Jazz, a concert presentation of the different jazz genres of the last century. This includes early jazz, swing jazz, jazz standards derived from musicals, […]
Meet magician Star Michaelina at GM library
Inspiration and Magic!The Grand Marais Public Library invites you to be inspired and amazed by magician Star Michaelina at 1 p.m. Friday, July 27. Star Michaelina presents The Magic of Dreaming Big, an interactive, comedy magic show for children of all ages. This funfilled show features books that help everyone learn what can be accomplished by following your dreams. Iron Range native […]
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Cook County AA MeetingsMondays: Open Meeting, 7:00 PM, Grand Marais SeniorCenter (1st Monday of the month is desserts and coffee at6:30 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 P.M.Step meeting.Thursdays: Women’s Meeting, Noon, First CongregationalChurch in Grand Marais; Big Book Study […]
A Woodland Garden theme of 2012 flower show
Members of the Grand Marais Garden Club Flower Show Committee are completing preparations for the annual flower show on Friday, July 20, from noon to 5 p.m. at the Cook County Community Center at 317 W. 5th St. The theme this year is A Woodland Garden. Many beautiful arrangements of locally grown flowers will be displayed. The master gardeners will […]
Superior Women and their labors at West End Garden Show
“Give her of the fruit of herhands, and let her works praiseher in the gates.”Proverbs 31: 31 The West End Garden Club will hold its 77th annual Flower Show Saturday, July 21 at the Schroeder Town Hall from 1 -5 p.m. Tis year’s theme Superior Women will honor women who directed and continue to direct their energies for good in […]
Churchill featured at July 19 lecture
Cook County Higher Education will feature Dr. Karen Halbersleben, who will present Winston Churchill: the Man and the Myth at the July Guest Lecture Series event on Thursday, July 19, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the North Shore Campus in Grand Marais. “We shall never surrender.” “Their finest hour…”. The words and the leadership of Winston Churchill continue to […]
Not so muddy Tofte Trek 2012
For 33 years people have come from far and wide on the 4th of July to run or walk the Tofte Trek 10K through the woods, up hill and down, through grass and mud. The trek, begun by Jan Horak of Tofte, follows hiking and snowmobile trails and is usually so muddy that tennis shoes are sometimes sucked into the […]