The Cook County North Shore Hospital & Care Center board continues to pursue the possibility of remodeling and upgrading the facility. On August 22, 2013, Administrator Kimber Wraalstad told the board about a study that showed that finances had improved for critical access hospitals after undergoing facility upgrades. Revenue outpaced interest and depreciation, the number of staff per patient decreased, […]
Advice from a very wise woman
My friend Ev Fuller died a few years ago, but she left some great things behind when she went. She left her husband Al, three grown children, several grandchildren, a dog named Charlie, and a book that she had written. Ev’s life wasn’t easy. When I started spending time with her, she was on oxygen and breathing was difficult. That […]
Historical Reflections
A history of docks in Cook CountyThis dock down by the Coast Guard Station in Grand Marais was once busy with commercial fishing activity. At a storytelling event highlighting Cook County history on March 9, 2013 at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts, former Cook County commissioner Chet Lindskog said that at one point, 109 commercial fishermen worked the North Shore. Billy Blackwell, who organized the […]
Cook County Community Fund offers the chance for a lasting legacy
One might say Grand Marais is in Howard Hedstrom’s blood. It all dates back to the late 1800s when Howard’s grandfather homesteaded in the area and later started a small sawmill business in 1914. Today, Hedstrom Lumber is part of the region’s rich history. Likewise, Hedstrom is doing his part as well to create a lasting legacy in the area. […]
Down Memory Lane
10 YEARS AGOAUG. 29, 2003 Due to the dry docking of the gas barge Greenstone, Isle Royale National Park supplies of gas for boaters are low. The Greenstone was put into dry dock after a recent inspection found it was not in compliance with federal law, the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, forbidding gas hauling by single-hulled vessels. That act […]
Isle Royale rescue choreographed by Forest Service and Park Service
The Cook County ambulance was paged to the Devil Track Lake boat landing at about 6 p.m. on Thursday, August 15 to meet a U.S. Forest Service de Havilland Beaver landing with a young man who suffered an apparent broken ankle on Isle Royale. The medical transport went remarkably smoothly, especially considering the number of agencies involved. The 19-year-old male […]
Forest Service battling fires on west side of Superior National
Fire season 2013 has begun. At press time, a fire six miles west of the Cook – Lake county border and three miles south of the U.S. – Canadian border in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness had grown from 15 acres on August 27 to 100 acres on August 28. U.S. Forest Service spokesperson Becca Manlove, Information Officer for […]
“Courthouse protestor” comes under scrutiny of county attorney
One of the people persistently calling for the resignation of County Attorney Tim Scannell made a police report last week, wanting to go on record about what he felt was harassment by the county attorney. The county attorney said his interaction with Gary Nesgoda of Grand Marais was not harassment, but simply a case of follow-up on an unfinished criminal […]
Cronberg graduates from Civil Air Patrol cadet encampment
Camp Ripley Military Reservation hosted a number of Civil Air Patrol Cadets June 23 – June 30, 2013. Kaylee Cronberg, 16, of Grand Marais, was among the 105 cadets from statewide Civil Air Patrol Squadrons who graduated from this year’s Minnesota Wing Encampment on June 30, 2013. Cronberg is a member of the Duluth Composite Squadron, 15th Cadet Training Group, […]