Tofte accepts IRRRB funds for senior housing project
Persistence, perseverance and patience have been rewarded. After several years of dogged planning it looks like housing for seniors may finally be built in Tofte. Dick Grabko and Gary Lamppa of Community Connections came before the Tofte town board on February 13, 2014 and informed the supervisors that the Iron Range Resources Rehabilitation Board (IRRRB) had awarded the township a […]
Library director Linda Chappell announces retirement
For the first time in 23 years, Grand Marais city officials are looking for a new library director. City councilors accepted, with regrets, longtime director Linda Chappell’s letter of resignation at their Feb. 12 meeting. Chappell has served as director of the Grand Marais Public Library since 1991, when she replaced Mary Alice Harvey. Chappell recalled that she worked at […]
Arrowhead Cooperative preparing for broadband rollout and solar power
The process to bring high speed Internet to Cook County has been long and hard, but the first subscribers will be hooked up this spring. True North broadband services from Arrowhead Cooperative will be available to some Schroeder residents beginning in April, said Joe Buttweiler, Arrowhead Cooperative’s acting general manager. Arrowhead’s technicians will start connecting homes and businesses in the […]
Forget the weatherman
It is amazing how advanced our weatherpredicting technology has become. As a child of the ’60s, I remember weathermen standing in front of a large plexi-glass map of the United States, drawing arrows to demonstrate the cold fronts swirling across Minnesota from the Canadian plains. I remember the meteorologists tacking up big snowflakes or raindrops on the map to show […]
Wind energy is available from local power providers
In response to Vince Ekroot’s letter to the editor in the February 1 issue of the Cook County News Herald inquiring about wind power as a source of electricity in Cook County. Unfortunately the North Shore terrain does not lend itself well to windmill electricity production in the way that southwest Minnesota or areas of many other states do. There […]
Older students should be allowed open campus at lunchtime
Remember how it was a big deal to get to a certain age because it meant you could do different things? Like stay up an extra hour at night when your younger siblings had to go to bed? There are so many examples of the benefits of getting older and doors getting opened because of it. One of those benefits […]
Shop around for best propane prices
In reference to the recent Cook County News-Herald article quoting Lori Swanson, our state attorney general, I wish to offer a little insight into propane prices. Every summer we call around to find out what price the area providers of propane are offering us for the coming fall and winter. One propane dealer began to charge us an exorbitant rent […]