The Cook County courthouse was a beehive of activity on Tuesday, November 6 as citizens turned out to vote for local, regional, and state candidates. Here Julie Berglund helps out a voter with her ballot.
Cook County voter turnout high
Who says mid-term elections don’t have high voter turnouts? In Cook County, 3,225 registered voters made their way to the polls on a drizzly, overcast Tuesday, November 6 to cast their ballots. All told that was 83.18 percent of Cook County’s 3,877 registered voters, said Cook County Auditor-Treasurer Braidy Powers. The vote totals are considered unofficial until the canvass board, […]
Forest Service decision on TomaInga Project
After weighing several alternatives, Alternative 2 was selected as the best way to move forward on the TomaInga Project. Ellen C. Bogardus-Szymaniak, Superior National Forest Tofte District Ranger, made the decision, and she laid out her reasons for making the selection. Alternative 2 “Maintains the appropriate balance between creating a young forest and maintaining mature forest patches and, Alternative 2 […]
DNR issues permits for NorthMet mining project in northeast Minnesota
On Thursday, November 1, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced that it issued permits for Poly Met Mining, Inc.’s (PolyMet’s) proposed NorthMet mining project in northeast Minnesota. The DNR issued the permit to mine, six water appropriation permits, two dam safety permits, a public waters work permit, and an endangered species takings permit for the NorthMet project. The permit […]
MnDOT holds public meeting about the impending Highway 61 road construction project through Grand Marais
Should the Highway 61 corridor running through Grand Marais be redesigned? Left as it is? Can it be improved, made safer, more beautiful, and if so, how? Those questions have been asked for the last few years at public meetings and public forums, but with MnDOT poised to let bids for the estimated $10.5 million project in May 2019, they […]
A rewarding delegate experience
In early June I was attending the state Republican convention in Duluth. I had to be one of the oldest representatives as a delegate and although a lady doesn’t give her age, I will say that my earliest involvement in politics was handing out “I Like Ike” buttons. When arriving at the convention I was woefully over-burdened by a huge […]
Writer questions DNR deer herd management
I have vacillated on writing this letter since last October before the deer season. I am writing to the deer hunters of Cook County of which I am one. My job gives me the unique opportunity to drive many miles through our beautiful county. It is very disturbing to watch our deer and moose herds dwindle each year. In the […]
Cancer in our midst
A living body such as the human body is made up of millions of individual cells each doing its own thing within an organism while relating to other cells, which are doing their own thing. There are myriads of cells so very different from other cells, but they nevertheless work together to make up the whole, a living body. Each […]
Remembering Veterans…
Lloyd Kilmer was eight years old in 1929, when his father lost the family’s southern Minnesota dairy farm at the onset of The Great Depression. Young Kilmer scrambled to find work wherever he could; selling newspapers, bagging groceries at the local grocery, and operating the projector at the movie theater in Stewartville, Minn. The eldest of five sons, Lloyd was […]
Grand Marais Art Colony welcomes new executive directors
The Grand Marais Art Colony recently announced it was moving into a co-directorship model. Ruth Pszwaro, previous program director, has already taken on the new role of artistic director and has served as interim executive director since July. Lyla Brown will join Pszwaro as co-director and executive director on November 16. Brown comes to Cook County from Kent County, Maryland. […]