Wide-eyed children—some for the first time—got to look at and if they were brave enough, sit on the Easter Bunny’s lap last weekend. It was a great day for the community at the Cook County Community Center on Saturday, March 31 as hundreds of children, their parents in tow, took part in an early Easter celebration. Cook County Community Center […]
Patrick Knight hired as first Grand Marais communications director
The camera never wobbled when the announcement came, which was pretty amazing. At the end of the March 28 Grand Marais City Council meeting, Mayor Jay Arrowsmith- DeCoux announced Patrick Knight had been selected from 16 candidates to become the first communications director for the city. When he made the pronouncement, Arrowsmith-DeCoux looked right into the camera, which was held […]
April 10 meeting to be held about the Seagull Lake ARMER tower
Many questions posed about the ARMER tower that will be built this summer on the Seagull Access Road near the Gunflint Trail Volunteer Fire Department (GTVFD) Fire Hall 3 will be answered at an upcoming April 10 meeting. The meeting will be at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 10 at Fire Hall 1, which is located mid Trail. Some controversy […]
WTIP ’s Deb Benedict to retire
A lot has changed at WTIP radio station over the last 20 years. People have come and gone, the station has moved from its original location, technology has rapidly advanced, and the station has steadily grown in staff and programming. From 2001 until now, Deb Benedict, WTIP’s hard working, capable and caring executive director has been out front leading, but […]
Capital Improvement Bonding
Thomas Jefferson, writing to his close friend John Taylor in a 1798 letter, bemoaned the fact that “the principle of the present majority is excessive expense [sic]; money enough to fill all their maws” (to be understood as the gullets of a greedy bunch). Jefferson grudgingly conceded, “Nothing then but excessive taxation can get us along.” He suggested to Taylor—whom […]
Children treated very well at Social Justice
This is a perspective on the recently-held Cook County Social Justice Conference of 2018… from a parent volunteer who had the privilege to participate in the elementary school portion of March 9th’s activities. No matter what we called such an event, it was clear to me that the students of Sawtooth Mountain Elementary were treated to a delightfully creative, thought-provoking […]
Social Justice is pretty similar to the Golden Rule
In a column by Garry Gamble he equated Social Justice training to Hitler’s Nazi Germany. He claimed that both agendas included the topic “Race Relations,” ergo they are moral equivalents. The Nazis viewed the Aryan race as superior to all others. Per the website of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, “The party platform embodies racism. It demands racial purity in […]
Demagoguery at its finest
The Saturday march on Washington, D.C. was a crystal clear example of “Demagoguery” at full throttle. This so-called gathering was claimed by the mainstream media as put together by the students of Parkland School in Florida where the shooting occurred. Really? If you believe that I have some prime swamp land, I’d love to sell you! Does anyone think that […]
Cook County Jewish community celebrates Passover
The Cook County Jewish Community celebrated the Passover holiday recently at the First Congregational Church in Grand Marais. Passover is the Jewish holiday celebrating the liberation and exodus of the Hebrew slaves from Egypt. This biblical holiday appears in the Old Testament and includes the familiar stories of: Moses and Pharaoh, the 10 plagues, the parting of the Red Sea, […]