North House hosts 17th year of Unplugged
Last weekend’s Unplugged 2018 was simply tremendous. No two ways around it, from start to finish the North House staff, volunteers, performers and instructors more than did their jobs. In its seventeenth year of hosting the event, North House simply puts together enough events and activities disparate enough to please most anyone, young or old. This year well over a […]
City council discusses North House lease
It was another full agenda for the Sept. 12 Grand Marais City Council meeting. As large issues are discussed, a greater number of locals have come out to listen and offer input. While many view the proceedings online, it is always encouraged for community members to attend meetings, to speak at the open forum or to listen to the council’s […]
Hospital levy increases $300,000
After years of keeping the North Shore hospital levy at $800,000, the hospital board passed a resolution upping the 2019 levy to $1,100,000. The vote came at the hospital board’s September 13 meeting. “We had a lengthy conversation regarding operational issues resulting in the proposed increase,” said North Shore hospital/care center administrator Kimber Wraalstad. “Specifically discussed were the addition of […]
New PK-12 principal hired at I.S.D. 166
Megan Stark will be the new PK-12 principal. She replaced Dr. Bill DeWitt who resigned this summer to take a job closer to his family. Stark will start Monday, September 24. School board accepts donations Each month—or most months— citizens donate money or gifts to I.S.D. 166 to meet the needs that can’t be met, or would be hard pressed […]
Spending to undo or redo what was
Aren’t we crazy. The city is now doing a study to determine where people walk. Once that’s determined there will be money put up for creating sidewalks. The city just took out sidewalks and narrowed the streets—too much to maintain. So what am I missing? Today we dismantle, so we can do a study to determine we need to build […]
Pence might be worse than Trump
I am not a President Trump fan. That said, it seems to me having him removed from office is not a solution or step in that direction. For I am not a fan of Mike Pence either. Vice President Pence has more power than I approve of at the moment, but as president of this country it will become an […]
Writer wishes to thank all of the volunteers
Kudos to all of the organizers and their assistants for the many and varied events which take place in Cook County each year, particularly during the summer. None of them would occur without each person’s contribution. Kudos also to all of the geographically diverse participants in the events, many of which require physical exertion. I get exhausted just thinking about […]
What does the Bible say?
After reading Spiritual Reflections, I was concerned with what the writer said concerning two very controversial topics, abortion and same-sex marriage. I do not want to infer what the writer’s intent was nor presume I know the inference either. Rather, I would like to share what the Bible actually says about these topics. In the book of Psalms, “For You […]
Skin in the game
I think we all know what it means to have “skin in the game”… to have incurred risk (monetary or otherwise) as the result of being involved (directly or indirectly) in a venture. Skin in the Game (February 2018) is also the title of Lebanese- American scholar Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s No. 1 New York Times bestseller. Nassim is not new […]