Awards and accolades keep piling up for Grand Marais. In addition to being voted “Coolest Small Town in America” in 2015, on April 28 Grand Marais was proclaimed winner of the “Best Midwestern Small Town” in a contest sponsored by 10 Best Readers’ Choice, a division of the travel arm of USA TODAY. Grand Marais competed against 19 small Midwestern […]
Cook County YMCA childcare facility fined
The Minnesota Department of Human Services (MDHS) cited a childcare program run by Cook County Community YMCA for neglect of a child. Based on findings presented to MDHS by Cook County Public Health & Human Services, the MDHS commissioner ordered the YMCA to pay a $1,000 fine and placed the YMCA license to practice family childcare on conditional status for […]
Minnesota Supreme Court refuses to hear Lake View Natural Dairy case
The Minnesota Supreme Court decided on April 26 against hearing the Lake View Natural Dairy’s (LVND) constitutional rights arguments versus the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA), thus leaving a significant question mark for the dairy. But rather than an end, this might be a new beginning for the Berglunds, said their attorney Zenas Baer. Baer has been the Berglunds’ legal […]
City okays contracts for public works facility
With work expected to start this month on the $5 million public works facility, Grand Marais city councilors were presented low bids from McGough Construction Co. LLC, the company who is in charge of building the project. Bids were awarded at the council’s April 12 meeting. Holden Electric Co. Inc. submitted a winning bid of $217,225 for electrical work. Range […]
The heart of the matter
When it comes to Superior National Forest, as well as school trust lands, the focus of recent columns, the blunt, unambiguous, question to be asked is: “For whom are these lands managed?” The answer to this question gets to the heart of the matter. As repeated, ad nauseam, in the recent three-part series on school trust lands, the trust manager’s […]
Bullying is not acceptable
As a resident of District 1 I was shocked to read Mr. Vannet’s response to Commissioner Doo-Kirk’s comment about being bullied: “Do you ever think that those remarks may be justified?” Since when is bullying justifiable? I believe that anyone seeking public office should not see intimidation and bullying as a value. I wonder how he would treat those of […]
Is the price right?
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” Submitted by Lloyd GeillingerSchroeder
Public should leave wildlife alone
One: More News-Herald readers should follow Robert Brandt’s example and express themselves when a topic moves them. Two: I applaud and commend Brandt for his humane concern for our wildlife. Three: Most appreciated was his view that neither authorization nor qualification (a piece of paper as he put it) was needed when individuals act for wild animals. To make his […]
All is not butter that comes from the COW (Committee of the Whole)
The adage, you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear comes to mind when pondering Cook County’s new logo and creation of yet another county department, adding Public Information to the existing Emergency Management function. We do not quarrel with the Emergency Management function or have a problem with Ms. Marasco, but adding the spin doctor aspect […]