On Tuesday, July 15, I appeared before the Cook County Board of Commissioners, as the representative of the 200 families (390+ signatures) who have petitioned to have rumble strips removed from Highway 61 in Cook County. We requested that the board support a letter to our elected representatives in the St. Paul Legislature. In this letter, we asked our elected […]
Squad car damaged, moose killed on Gunflint Trail
A Cook County Sheriff Deputy hit a moose while driving on the Gunflint Trail on Saturday, July 19, 2014, killing the moose and heavily damaging the police squad car. Deputy Dave Gilmore was traveling southbound on the Gunflint Trail at 12:14 a.m. There were several vehicles traveling north at a slow rate of speed, following a moose that wouldn’t leave […]
Cook County escapes major storm damage
Winds from a thunderstorm in the early hours of Tuesday, July 22 caused trees to blow down in a swath through the Superior National Forest, with most of the impact in northern St. Louis County. However, a falling tree injured a 13-year-old girl in Cook County and blown down trees slowed transport to the hospital. Cook County Law Enforcement received […]
Minnesota State Patrol shares motorcycle facts
Sgt. Curtis Mowers of the Minnesota State Patrol shared some interesting facts about motorcycles and their use. Did you know that in Minnesota, over half of motorcycle crashes are single-vehicle crashes? Motorcycle use is at an all-time high and the two primary factors involved when they crash are driver inexperience and speed. Did you know one main reason that motorcyclists […]
Faith in God the person
So. God is immensely more than the conclusion of a logical argument. He is infinitely more than a philosophical principle. And heaven forbid he be reduced to a mere religious practice regardless of the ethereal, spiritual satisfaction such practice might bring. God is a real person, and as a person he can be known. But, we need to say more […]
Busy work for visiting church at Life in Christ Lutheran
In May, the Life in Christ Lutheran Church took a leap of faith and purchased the former Pie Place restaurant property west of Grand Marais for its new home. The congregation, which had been meeting at the Cook County Community Center since the late 1990s, knew that its work was cut out for them. However, they also knew they had […]
Sylvia A. Haavisto,
Sylvia A. Haavisto, 96, of Grand Marais, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, July 16, 2014 in the Cook County North Shore Care Center. She was born August 30, 1917 to Albert and Sophia Helmerson in Grand Marais. Sylvia grew up on Good Harbor Hill in Grand Marais, and attended and graduated from Cook County High School. She was a lifelong […]
Jack “Captain” Colby Halverson
Jack “Captain” Colby Halverson passed away peacefully at the North Shore Care Center with his family at his side on Sunday, July 6, 2014. Jack was born August 23, 1938 on Hungry Jack Lake in Grand Marais to Marjorie and Walter “Jeff” Halverson. Jack attended school in Grand Marais. He married Caroline Joyce Antoniak (Grist) of Grand Marais in April […]