The Grand Marais City Council approved a $9,500 commercial rehab loan request from the GunFlint Tavern June 12. GunFlint Tavern owner Jeff Gecas attended the meeting along with Housing Administrator Nancy Grabko and Hal Greenwood of the Grand Marais – Cook County Economic Development Authority. City Administrator Mike Roth explained that the loan comes from a commercial rehab revolving loan […]
Gunflint Hills not perfect but ready for business
Gunflint Hills Golf Course is open and people are golfing. The grass needs some help from the sun, however, to warm things up. “We just need some warmth, is what we need,” Manager Mike Kunshier told the Grand Marais Park Board on June 4, 2013. “In 17 days, summer will be here, and we haven’t had spring yet!” Board Chair […]
Grand Marais sewer line inspections on target for summer
Bids for this summer’s Grand Marais sewer cleaning project came in higher than expected, but all three bids were similar, so on June 5, 2013 the Public Utilities Commission board approved the lowest bid— $29,225 from Infratech of Rogers, Minn. The work will include inspection and cleaning of about 7,500 feet of sewer south of Second Street from Broadway to […]
ATV destroyed by fire in Hovland
Cook County Law Enforcement received a call at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, June 11 reporting an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) on fire at 80 Arrowhead Trail in Hovland. Owner of the ATV, Gene Pearson of Hovland, said he was using the machine to grade his driveway with a grader attachment. Pearson told responders he believed he had put the Arctic Cat […]
No injuries in vehicle rollover in Hovland
Cook County Law Enforcement received a call at approximately 11:30 a.m. on June 16, 2013, reporting a one-vehicle rollover just off Highway 61 in Hovland near Judge Magney State park. According to Minnesota State Trooper Leah Carpenter, the driver, Harold Lieberman, 91, of St. Cloud was attempting to turn into Judge Magney State Park. He turned too wide and his […]
DNR to offer state lands at public auction
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will offer for sale more than 20 parcels of state lands at two public auctions to be held July 23-24, including one parcel in Cook County. The majority of the parcels are school trust lands, some of which are lakeshore lots. The Cook County parcel up for auction is 3.5 acres on Loon […]
Down Memory Lane
10 YEARS AGOJUNE 20, 2003 A safe harbor and marina could be built in the Grand Marais harbor, but it would have to comply with the terms of the conservation easement the city gave to the Minnesota Land Trust years ago. In the conservation easement, agreed to after months of talks with the Land Trust, it was specified that the […]
Cook County on its way to gypsy moth quarantine
Gypsy moths have been marching slowly across America since they were brought to the East Coast from Europe more than a century ago, destroying over 300 different kinds of trees in the process, but quarantine along the invasion’s Minnesota front may slow the destruction for areas west of here. Gypsy moths defoliate trees in Europe much like forest tent caterpillars […]