Benefit Dance/ConcertFor Lily’s “Northern Lights” basketball team withEarth, Wind & Todd at Betsy Bowen’s “What’s Upstairs”Thursday, June 27 from 7-9 p.m. 6/22pMinnesota Zoomobile visits libraryMinnesota Zoomobile naturalists and a variety ofanimals will be at the Grand Marais Public Library,10:15 a.m. Tuesday, June 25. You could meet a greathorned owl, ball python, opossum, tarantula, lizards,and bugs from the rainforest. The Zoomobile’s […]
West End Calendar
Tofte Town MeetingHeld the 2nd Thursday of each month, 7:00 p.m. at theTofte Town Hall, 7240 Tofte Park Road. 3/12tfnLutsen Township Monthly MeetingsHeld the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. atthe Lutsen Town Hall located at 116 Caribou Trail. 4/17tfnSchroeder Town MeetingsHeld the second Tuesday of the month at 7:00 p.m. atSchroeder Town Hall, 124 Cramer Rd., Schroeder. […]
Gunflint Trail community celebrates fire hall improvements, new community center
The stars were aligned in perfect unison on Wednesday, June 12 as the Gunflint Trail community gathered to celebrate the grand opening of the Gunflint Trail Volunteer Fire Department (GTVFD) Hall One expansion. This ambitious project covered expansions at all three fire halls in the GTVFD fire district. Hall One at Poplar Lake (mid- Trail) was the site of the […]
Lily Gruber-Schulz competes in AAU basketball league
Summer for some high school kids is often a time to kick back and take time off from their main sport, but for soon-to-be Cook County High School sophomore Lily Gruber-Schulz, summer is a time to hone her basketball skills as she travels across the state to play with her Northern Lights AAU teammates. At 6 feet tall, strong and […]
Minnesota Power Foundation awards New Generation Scholarships
Minnesota Power Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2013 New Generation Scholarships. Scott Rysdahl has received a $1,000 scholarship. Rysdahl is attending Lake Superior Community College. He is enrolled in the information technology specialist program. His mother, Jeanne Rysdahl, lives in Tofte and his father, Dennis Rysdahl, lives in Schroeder. These scholarships provide financial assistance to students […]
Sharpening the saw
In his popular book, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Steven Covey writes about “sharpening the saw.” The phrase comes from a story about a man who is exhausted from trying to cut down a tree with a dull saw and has become convinced he is so far behind that he doesn’t have time to stop and sharpen it. Those […]
Swimming bear on Sag Lake
The bugs are out, the trees are green, and the fish are biting—three telltale signs of June on the Gunflint Trail. My tomato plants are slowly rebounding from the cold start but everything else in the forest is growing fast, including the wildlife. While guiding some friends from Iowa last week, we were fortunate enough to witness a black bear […]
Where are the fish biting?
Buck’s Hardware Hank’s fish report, courtesy of Jon: With the late spring we’ve been having, I keep wondering when the walleyes are gonna go for more depth. I’m still hearing that they’re coming in shallow in the evening. Once again we’re talking 4 to 10 feet deep. Minnows are still going strong but at the store we’re selling more and […]
Irish Creek Road to close for bridge replacement
A section of the Irish Creek Road in Cook County will be closed to allow for bridge replacement over the Irish Creek. The bridge is about 1.5 miles west of the Arrowhead Trail. Bridge replacement is expected to begin on or around June 17 and last two and a half weeks. The new bridge will be a significant upgrade with […]
New segment opens for Gitchi-Gami State Trail
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Gitchi-Gami Trail Association held a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Silver Bay to celebrate the official opening of a new 2.3-mile paved segment of the Gitchi-Gami State Trail on the North Shore of Lake Superior. From the Rukavina Arena in Silver Bay, the new trail segment runs south across Northshore Mining property and […]