Last week I talked about individual New Year’s Resolutions and the unlikelihood that anyone makes resolutions, let alone keeps them. I was pleasantly surprised to hear from a number of people who not only make some interesting resolutions, they keep them. I shouldn’t have been surprised. Our community is made up of many strong-willed, enthusiastic and caring people. So when […]
Night of the Notable or Notorious
Students and their presentation topicShannon O’Phelan | Maci BookoutTeen pregnancy on MTVSarah Deschampe | Ramona BennettThe Indian Children Welfare ActAbbey Sutton | Maya MurphyTransracial adoptionMegan Lehto | Natasha SkinnerSurrogacyAudrey Summers | Richard DrewPhotojournalism vs. privacyJessica Berg-Collman | Abby HoeschlerLumberjack sportsJoe Borud | Ryan BraunSteroids in baseballThomas Anderson | Derek BoogaardFighting in the NHLJonny Jacobsen | Mike PereiraReducing injuries in the […]
Correction:
In the January 11, 2014 article County board holds 2014 organizational meeting, it was erroneously reported that Commissioner Sue Hakes didn’t receive enough votes to become county board chair for 2014. Commissioner Hakes received a nomination from Commissioner Heidi Doo-Kirk, but there was no second to the motion, so no vote was taken. The News-Herald regrets the error.
Just a bit on edge
Have you ever had an experience where you were kind of nervous, a bit on edge, worried about something you had to do? Maybe it was a job interview; maybe you had to make some kind of presentation at work; perhaps you were going to ask the boss for a raise. Whatever it was, you’re a bit upset. And some […]
PUC discusses plans for biomass heating system
At the first meeting of the New Year, held January 8, 2014, Karl Hansen was reappointed as the chair and Adam Harju as vice chair for the Grand Marais Public Utilities Commission (PUC). In his report to the commission, Grand Marais Water/Waste Water Superintendent Tom Nelson said he had looked at the preliminary plans for the proposed biomass heating system, […]
Down Memory Lane
10 Years AgoJan. 16, 2004 Cook County School Board Chair Jane Mianowski will be recognized statewide for her years of working as a school board member. She will be honored at a state leadership meeting of the Minnesota School Board Association in St. Paul. It is a well-deserved award, said Chuck Futterer, school superintendent, who announced the upcoming award at […]
Grand Marais couple uninjured in near rollover
A Grand Marais couple, Ken Lovaas, 84, and Fern Lovaas, 81, escaped serious injury when their vehicle went into the ditch after another vehicle hit them while attempting to pass near the Hall Road in Lutsen just before 11 a.m. on January 11. According to Minnesota State Patrol, both vehicles were traveling west when Jeremy Kakegamic, 20, of Thunder Bay, […]