This summer, local blood bank Memorial Blood Centers is facing a serious challenge in maintaining an adequate supply of O negative, A negative, and B negative blood types to meet the needs of our hospital partners in Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin. Every two seconds, someone needs blood. Please donate if you are: . In good health . Free of antibiotics […]
New health care plan available for employers
Northern Minnesota employers just got another health care company to consider when deciding who to purchase healthcare insurance from. Wilderness Health and PreferredOne recently partnered to create Wilderness Health ACO, offering a lower-priced employer health care plan to the area. Wilderness Health is a collaborative of independent providers working together to improve health care in northern Minnesota. It is headquartered […]
City council grants two conditional use permits
Two conditional use permits (CUPs) were approved at the Grand Marais City Council’s July 12 meeting. Following the recommendation of the planning commission the request by Linda, Russell, and James Petersen to rent their residential property located at 21 W. 3rd St. to “3-8 unrelated persons on a monthly basis or longer,” was green-lighted by council. Previously the Petersens had […]
North Shore Storm getting ready for the cross country season
Pincushion Mountain was a busy place last Wednesday, July 19, as 38 high school cross country runners took to the trails for an evening workout. Nine of the runners participate for the Cook County/Two Harbors North Shore Storm high school cross country team while 29 runners were from Kearney, Missouri. “We came up here four years ago with a team,” […]
Hungry Jack Memories, a book of poetry
Penning a book of poetry isn’t easy, as Keith Jentoft can attest. “There is a lot of struggle to find the right word, to keep the rhyme and the meter, to take memories and write about them in a meaningful way. In a way that I hope has meaning to someone more than just to me. Writing poems can be […]
Turtle Tales
Something shiny glinted from beneath the arborvitae tree at the corner of my garden. Something on the ground. Stepping closer, I realized the shiny “thing” was the dark green of a turtle shell and further inspection showed an average-size mud turtle. It sat there, hunkered down, motionless. I did what every red-blooded American would do, I ran back to the […]
New author to sign books at Lake Superior Trading Post
Courtney Yasmineh is known to many as an accomplished singer songwriter, but soon her name may become as well known to a whole new set of fans who pick up and read her first novel, A Girl Called Sidney. Much of this coming of age novel is set in a small, cold northern town much like Grand Marais. With her […]
Workers on Wheels program gears up for foreign students
One Sunday in 2009, Rick Schubert and Dan Strayer had a church pew conversation about the need for international workers to have transportation. What came out of that conversation was Workers on Wheels (WOW), a program that loans bicycles to foreign workers for the summer. Now in its seventh year, WOW is supported in part by the Grand Marais First […]
Lutsen Resort up for sale
Cook County’s oldest resort is up for sale. Actually, it has been on the market for some time, and rumors that the business already has been sold and off the market — which are untrue – have circulated through the county over the past few months. Owners Scott Harrison and Nancy Burns are now letting the public know the business […]