If you have flown, you have heard the flight attendants’ instruction that you must put on your own oxygen mask before helping others. This may seem counter intuitive to parents wanting to ensure their children’s safety first. As summer approaches— very slowly for those of us in northern Minnesota— many find themselves torn between work around the house, job commitments, […]
Historical Reflections
Magnetic Bay railroad bridgeSue Kerfoot of the Gunflint Trail Historical Society and Gunflint Lodge knows a lot about Gunflint Trail history. On March 9, she participated in a storytelling event about Cook County history at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts in Grand Marais. Kerfoot talked about how the 2007 Ham Lake fire exposed the effect of the Sudbury meteor that struck near […]
Down Memory Lane
10 YEARS AGO · MAY 23, 2003 The Grand Marais Harbor Advisory Committee will have to wait another month before finding out if a safe harbor/ marina can be built on the west side of the harbor. Much of the land is controlled by the Minnesota Land Trust, which has specific rules about what type of development is permitted on […]
More details on Down Memory Lane runaway
In the April 27, 2013 Down Memory Lane, there was an interesting tidbit of news from 90 years ago. The Cook County News- Herald published on April 26, 1923 reported: On Wednesday of last week a 14-year-old boy came up the north shore from Wisconsin. He had run away from home. When he got to Cross River he took a […]
U.S. Forest Service and state negotiating BWCAW land exchange
Superior National Forest Realty Specialist Elizabeth Schleif and Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) School Trust Land Administrator Aaron VandeLinde met with the county board May 23, 2013 to discuss the proposed transfer of ownership of 86,000 acres of state-owned school trust lands in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) to the U.S. Forest Service. The Forest Service is […]
Minnesota stormwater manual available in new format
Cities and developers that need to control urban stormwater to prevent pollution of lakes and streams have a new tool available: the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has launched a wiki version of the Minnesota Stormwater Manual. The previous manual – at 850 pages and 25 megabytes online – offered a wealth of information, but was cumbersome to use. Thanks to […]
Panel asks and answers probing questions about nonferrous mining
A panel discussion on nonferrous mining at the University of Minnesota- Duluth (UMD) on April 9, 2013 brought five very different perspectives on projects that PolyMet and Twin Metals are pursuing in Minnesota’s Arrowhead Region. The panelists each made opening comments, and then the meeting was opened for questions. Environmental concerns The first to ask a question was Friends of […]
Boys’ varsity tennis team loses two matches
Scannell qualifies for stateThe Cook County High School boys’ tennis team traveled to Cloquet on Tuesday, May 14, to take on the Cloquet-Esko-Carlton tennis team. This was only the fourth match of the season for the Vikings, but it was their last regular season match before section team competition began the following Thursday. The poor spring weather has wiped out a lot of […]
Bargains, bargains, bargains!
I inherited several traits from my mother, her eyes and her chin but one trait I have only recently realized— her thriftiness. It used to bug me. Tearing paper towels in half because most jobs don’t require a whole paper towel…. Seriously? How about rinsing out baggies and pinning them in the cupboard door to dry…. nope not a big […]
