Will there be a North Shore Dragon Boat Festival in 2015?
Although it is greatly enjoyed by those who take part and the throngs of people watching from the shore, the future of the North Shore Dragon Boat Festival is uncertain. For 11 years, three of Cook County’s nonprofits–WTIP Community Radio, North Shore Health Care Foundation and North House Folk School–have collaborated leading the event forward. Greg Wright of North House […]
EDA reaches agreement with business park contractor
Since 2006, the Cook County/Grand Marais Economic Development Authority (EDA) has been involved in a dispute over construction work done at the 70-acre Cedar Grove Business Park in Grand Marais. At the Tuesday, December 9, 2014 EDA meeting, Board President Mark Sandbo and Treasurer Scott Harrison announced that a final agreement had finally been reached. The legal wrangling began after […]
Sawtooth Mountain Clinic recognized for quality improvements
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell recently announced that $491,986 in Affordable Care Act funding would be awarded to 16 health centers in Minnesota to recognize health center quality improvement achievements. Sawtooth Mountain Clinic in Grand Marais is one of the facilities being recognized. The clinic will receive $29,699 to invest in ongoing quality improvement activities. Clinic […]
Good attendance at Truth in Taxation meeting
Cook County commissioners held the 2015 Truth in Taxation meeting on Thursday, December 4, 2014 in the commissioner’s room with about 25 people attending. Cook County Auditor- Treasurer Braidy Powers briefly went through a 42-page explanation of mandated and non-mandated expenses, a history of the levy, a county department budget review that highlighted the general fund, the road and bridge […]
Weekly Weather
Date High Low Precipitation From Josiah Avery, Grand Marais Dec. 2 20.8 14.8 0.00 Trace Dec. 3 19.6 6.8 0.00 0.00 Dec. 4 29.0 2.3 0.00 0.00 Dec. 5 35.8 21.5 0.00 0.00 Dec. 6 28.5 16.0 0.00 0.00 Dec. 7 35.8 29.5 Trace 3.00 Dec. 8 34.6 30.6 Trace Trace From Dana Austin, Poplar Lake Dec. 2 16.2 5.2 […]
Praying with strangers
“Are you the only choice?” I explained that there was only one chaplain on call, making me the only choice. She had been brought in for perilous surgery, not great chances that she would live to see another day, to travel home to the people she loved. She told the nurse she wanted a chaplain, but assumed it would be […]