Study indicating biomass heat looking promising
Obtaining enough biomass from the forests of Cook County would be a cinch if a biomass heating plant were built for the bulk of the public and commercial buildings in Grand Marais. This was the word at an update on a study funded by the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources for Cook County and Ely held July 10, 2012 at […]
Keeping costs contained on community center
Plans for the Cook County Family YMCA, as the new community center is currently being called, continue to move along. At the July 24 meeting of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, consultant Wade Cole of ORB Management reported that last year’s expenditures totaled just under $500,000, leaving about $9 million for the rest of the project, which includes the […]
County commissioners to start contributing toward health insurance
The last of this year’s county employee salary negotiations has been completed. When Commissioner Sue Hakes brought her recommendations to the county board on Tuesday, July 24, the commissioners spent some time discussing whether they should start contributing toward their health insurance premiums and in what amount. Commissioner Hakes recommended that the county’s half dozen non-union hourly employees receive an […]
Duluth woman rescued from Temperance River
Just one day after being paged to Temperance River for a missing person, emergency responders were paged for a river rescue once again—this time responders knew a person was in distress in the water. Cook County Law Enforcement received a call from a cell phone with poor reception at 3:37 p.m. on Saturday, July 21 reporting “someone stuck in the […]
Lost man spends night on Temperance River
A Shakopee, MN man on a solitary inner tube trip down the Temperance River got more adventure than he hoped for when he ended up spending the night in the woods on Thursday, July 19. Gregory Allen Elsner, 50, of Shakopee set off from a campground on Temperance River on a small raft at about 2 p.m., thinking he would […]
Watching the parade go by
Included in this issue of the Cook County News-Herald is our fabulous Fisherman’s Picnic insert, a 24-page collection of all things Fisherman’s. We have a lot of fun putting this special edition together—gathering information, confirming scheduled events and writing about what’s new and what’s old in this decades-old festival. We hope you enjoy the information we’ve gathered about the music […]
May Joynes’ legacy continue
This corner of our world is a much better place for having had Howard Joynes in it all these 94 years. Had he done nothing else for anyone, his store alone has made lives fuller and richer for his thoughtful mix of well chosen supplies for making everyday lives more comfortable in so many ways. Yet in public and personal […]
Dust relief is much appreciated
The county highway department applied calcium chloride to our road, Birch Drive, last evening. It provided immediate, glorious relief from choking dust, made worse this summer by heavy trucks and machinery going to and from building sites. I wish to thank the highway department for applying the dust relief and the county board for providing the funding. The county board […]