Community gathers to honor our veterans
Drum song, band music and chorale voices were raised in songs of honor for our nation’s veterans on Wednesday, November 11 as Cook County community members gathered in Grand Portage and Grand Marais. Young and old give thanks for veterans Grand Portage American Legion Post 2009 was decorated for Veterans Day with lovely red, white and blue paintings created by […]
Grand Marais Park board adopts rate changes for 2016
Rates in the Grand Marais Recreational Park campground will go up in 2016, but the board opted to keep the increases somewhat moderate. Grand Marais Parks Manager Dave Tersteeg presented several options for 2016 rate increases for the park board to consider at the November 4 meeting. At the board’s October meeting there was agreement among board members to maximize […]
County shaves money from EDA request
Citing the current strong Cook County/ Grand Marais Economic Development Authority (EDA) board and exciting potential it possesses to solve some of the county’s problems like making housing affordable for its often low-paid workforce, Commissioner Jan Sivertson made a motion to give the EDA $267,915 for 2016 at the board’s November 10 meeting. Last year the EDA received $223,000 from […]
No vote is sad reflection on voters
A sad reflection on those voters in School District 166 who voted no, that the children here don’t deserve their financial support. Diane HinikerColvill
Making your “Yes” vote count
While there may be disappointment in the defeat of last week’s School District 166 operating levy referendum, there does not need to be discouragement. We shouldn’t accept that 48 percent of the voters don’t count, or that the 1,039 people who supported the levy can’t make a difference in the quality of education in Cook County. Those of us who […]
School administration was over-reaching with levy referendum
The failed school referendum was likely the result of the ISD166 administration and board overreaching for funds ($1,276 per student, nearly 3 times the previous levy) in a year where double digit property tax increases were proposed by both the county board and the Grand Marais city council. Another concern was the prospect that the State of Minnesota will increase […]
Cedar Grove Business Park is just empty lots
Reading the [Grand Mayor Jay Arrowsmith DeCoux] Mayors blog concerning the city buying the Tomteboda more represents an exercise in creative writing rather than the reality the rest of us live in. Cedar Grove [Business Park] is a failed business. If not for property tax dollars bailing it out, it would have gone back to the bank long ago. In […]
Working at lowering the levy
I hope that the Cook County commissioners don’t feel that I am picking on them. The county board seems to have been the topic of more than a few Unorganized Territory columns in the last few months. It’s just that the county board is the focus of a lot of activity recently. There has been a lot of scrutiny of […]
