Chris Norman’s letter on affordable housing and decent-paying jobs accents the flaws in the Cook County – Grand Marais Economic Development Authority (EDA), the city council, and the county board. With a bankrupt business park the powers at hand refused to consider selling two lots to support affordable housing and local jobs. This forced tax dollars to pay bond payments. […]
Friendly greetings welcome
This holiday season seems to have caught everyone unprepared. Maybe it’s because November 2013 was a month of five Saturdays, which meant Thanksgiving—celebrated on the last Thursday of November since 1941—fell on November 28. It was almost December before we celebrated our day of Thanksgiving. And although stores across the country start putting out Christmas decorations even before Halloween, I […]
Light up a Life makes cold, dark night brighter
Schools were closed and many events were cancelled on December 5, 2013, however the “Light up a Life” event at North Shore Hospital on Thursday evening, sponsored by Care Partners of Cook County, was held as planned. About 20 people braved the frigid weather to see the lighting of the tree in the hospital atrium with its multitude of twinkling […]
Correction:
In last week’s announcement of Cook County Schools students named to the first quarter Honor Roll, 9th grader Melanie Smith was inadvertently left off the list. The Cook County News-Herald apologizes for the error.
Seeing God in the Dark
“But what are winters like?” city people often ask me about living in Cook County. “Well, it’s usually not colder than the Cities,” I answer. “And snow up here is a treat rather than a pain. “But the darkness…. it can be really something…” I think back to my first winter here, when I traveled in mid-December to Philadelphia. It […]
Kristi K. Downing,
Kristi K. Downing, age 77, of Grand Marais passed away peacefully on December 5, 2013 in Rochester after a brief but brutal recurrence of cancer. Kristi was a beloved free spirit who was an artist in the kitchen and in clay. She nourished and nurtured others with her incomparable hospitality and unconditional love. She was a teacher and a healer […]
Margaret Annette Hughes
Margaret Annette Hughes died Dec. 6, 2013 in Silver Bay, where she resided at Carefree Living. She was born Feb. 23, 1924 in Minneapolis to Peter Franciscus Goodhard and Margretha Martens Goodhard. In 1979 Margaret and her husband Bill moved to their acreage on Pike Lake near Grand Marais. Margaret will be remembered for her love of cross country skiing, […]