We often hear conversations that people have on how government does or does not work whether on a local, state or national level. However, I don’t hear much conversation about what it is like to volunteer to work in government, in particular the National Park system or other agencies such as Fish and Wildlife. For the last five years I […]
EPA acting as judge and jury
In the early 1970s the Supreme Court ruled the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to be unconstitutional in the Mack/Printz decision. We wonder why then do we still have the EPA making its own laws and enforcing all its regulations as if it were judge, jury, and executioner, and acting as if it owned our states and counties. The easy answer […]
Buried by technology
I received a great email from someone recently, apologizing for taking so long to get back to me with an answer to a question I had asked. She stated that the email “got buried” in her inbox. I can so relate to this! We get hundreds of emails every day at the News- Herald. The majority of them are junk […]
Broadband and solar updates at Arrowhead Annual Meeting
A quorum of members once again turned out for the Arrowhead Electric Cooperative, Inc. annual meeting at Cook County High School on Saturday, June 6. The meeting started with pancakes and coffee for members in the school cafeteria and finished in the Arrowhead Center for the Arts auditorium with questions and answers. The meeting was called to order by Arrowhead […]
We are the Resurrection Story
One of the lesser known 20th century Christian saints was a man named Clarence Jordan. Clarence was born in 1912 in the heart of Georgia. As a child he learned the familiar song “Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so …” But the words, “red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his […]
Herbert Milton Hedstrom
Herbert Milton Hedstrom died Thursday, June 4, 2015, at the North Shore Hospital in Grand Marais after a short illness. Born April 23, 1917 to Andrew and Alma (Berglund) Hedstrom, the 10th of 13 children, Herbert grew up with his siblings on Maple Hill, attending school there and in Grand Marais. After graduating from high school in 1936, he went […]
Down Memory Lane
10 Years AgoJune 10, 2005 Lonnie Dupre and Eric Larsen were airlifted off the Arctic Ocean by a helicopter on June 3, ending the first attempt to cross the ocean during the summer. The Grand Marais men, who had fought deep snow, impassable pressure ridges, polar bears and grueling conditions were disappointed nevertheless. Students in the fourth grades at Sawtooth […]
Old-fashioned bartering at Lutsen Town Meeting
Some old-fashioned bartering took place at the Lutsen Town Meeting on Tuesday, May 19 in response to a request from Lutsen contractor Mike Rose, who asked to trade some landscaping work— moving rocks to serve as protective barriers around the town hall parking lot—for the LaFrance fire truck. Clerk Amity Goettl said the township could make the trade, as long […]