It’s not exactly the Wild, Wild West, but the township of Schroeder will be gunning for common tansy this summer. To date, common tansy, a 3- to 5-foot-tall perennial herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, has been uncommonly tough for the township gardeners to uproot. But no more. Schroeder is bringing a big gun— maybe not Marshal Dillon— but a big […]

A dozen people attended the meeting of the Poplar River Management Board at Caribou Highlands in Lutsen on May 16, 2014. The group was formed in 2005 in response to the river being included on the Impaired Rivers List as developed by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency in 2004. The inclusion on the list was made because of overly high […]

Gov. Mark Dayton has signed into law bonding bills that provide financing for two Cook County projects, according to Judy Erickson of Conservation Strategies Inc., the Cook County Chamber of Commerce representative in St. Paul. “This is good news for Cook County,” Erickson said. “It was the final step in the legislative process put into play by the chamber last […]

Agreements between several governmental agencies, the Minnesota Forest Industries and the Timber Producers Association (TPA) have resulted in new rules that will help keep gypsy moth numbers down while allowing loggers, truckers and sawmills to operate without as many constraints as first proposed. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) also postponed the gypsy moth quarantine start from March 31 to […]

Cook County Law Enforcement received a call reporting a vehicle rollover in Lutsen at 7:32 p.m. on Thursday, May 15. The car, a 2006 Cadillac SRX wagon, went off the road at the intersection of Caribou Point Road and Peninsula Point Trail, rolled approximately two times and hit a telephone pole. The driver, Megan Lehto, 18, of Lutsen, told sheriff […]