Ever since the North Shore Federal Credit Union (NSFCU) announced in June that it was opening its fourth branch office in Grand Portage inside the Grand Portage Trading Post, community members have been anxiously awaiting the opening. The new branch office was opened at the end of October and last week, on Thursday, November 21, the NSFCU board of directors […]
Cut phone line leads to cell phone and WTIP radio outage
Verizon cell phone service and reception of WTIP radio was disrupted on Monday, November 25 when a phone line was cut near the communication towers overlooking the city of Grand Marais. The outage lasted from about 10:05 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. WTIP radio issued a statement via the Boreal Access Internet provider letting listeners know that the station was unable […]
What of selfishness and greed?
Just a couple of days after Thanksgiving Day and already someone in the house is saying: “That’s mine! You can’t have it!” Let me paint you a picture: “Give me back my bike. Mommy, Johnny won’t get off my bike.” “Mom, I only want to use his bike to go to the store for the milk you wanted me to […]
Richard “Dick” Eckel
Richard “Dick” Eckel, 82, of Grand Marais, died Sunday, November 24, 2013. He was born March 25, 1931 to Thomas J. and Bertha (Sivertson) Eckel in Duluth and was a lifelong resident of Grand Marais. He made his first trip to Isle Royale in a fish box when he was 3 months old and continued spending summers there through his […]
Donald O. Ingram
Donald O. Ingram passed away Saturday, November 23, 2013 at the North Shore Care Center in Grand Marais at the age of 86. He was born May 22, 1927 to Claude and Ada (Norris) Ingram at Big Lake, Minn. Don’s family moved to Grand Marais when he was a young child at age 4, and he was a graduate of […]
Eleanor Matsis
Eleanor Matsis passed away in the Cook County North Shore Care Center on November 19, 2013. She first came up to Cook County in the early 1950s after getting a summer job at Gunflint Lodge as a dishwasher. With her bachelor’s from Smith College and her master’s from Iowa State University, Eleanor was somewhat overqualified for the position. It was, […]
Grand Portage man acquitted on criminal sexual conduct charges
After nearly 11 months in prison, Ricardo Alfredo Lobato Santos, 29, of Brazil, now residing in Grand Portage, has been acquitted. Santos had been charged with criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree and solicitation of a child to engage in sexual conduct. According to the court complaint, the Cook County Sheriff ’s Department received a report on January 15, […]
Guilty plea entered by teen driver in June rollover fatality
The 16-year-old driver of the vehicle involved in a June 13, 2013 rollover on Pike Lake Road that resulted in the death of 14-year-old Dylan Marshall of Grand Marais appeared before Judge Michael Cuzzo in the Cook County courtroom on Tuesday, November 26 to find out if he would be tried as an adult in the matter. The driver, now […]
