Last Saturday was a big day in Grand Marais. While Santa Claus was next door at Gunflint Mercantile, Mrs. Claus was at The Big Lake art gallery greeting children. Between the two stores and two Clauses, there was a great bit of merry making and early Christmas fun for all who came in.
North Shore Title expands staff, adding controller and director of human resources
North Shore Title, a leading provider of commercial and residential real estate transactions, has strengthened its internal team and is pleased to welcome two new staff members. Liz Zaborski has joined North Shore Title as controller, and Laurie Edgerton as director of human resources. “We are thrilled to welcome these two new staff members to North Shore Title,” said Brad […]
Grand Marais City Council sets 2019 property tax levy
With little delay, the Grand Marais City Council approved a final 2018 property tax levy collectible in 2019 on Wednesday, December 19. Resolution 2018-26 passed unanimously at the meeting and called for raising $959,021.32, an increase of 2.72 percent from 2018. As Grand Marais Mayor Jay Arrowsmith-DeCoux explained, the information concerning the 2019 property tax hike had been presented at […]
I.S.D. School District 166 sets levy
The Cook County School Board I.S.D. 166 adopted the 2018 levy payable in 2019 at its regular meeting on Thursday, December 13. Approved was a 2019 levy of $1,855. It is a 7.64 percent increase over 2018. Residential homestead owners will pay $13.83 per $100,000 more than they spent last year for the school portion of their Cook County 2019 […]
The emotions of Christmas
Accepting that each of us experiences Christmas through a different emotional lens, let’s consider the emotional responses from the major players linked to a lowly stable in the overcrowded city of Bethlehem that very first Christmas. Mary—treasured We begin with an adolescent girl from modest beginnings. A maiden who had little expectation that her life was going to be anything […]
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After Gary Siesennop read, “The Pleiadians are here” article he decided to read a bit about the Pleiades star cluster and then learned how to locate it in the December night sky. “I took a few photos of the Pleiades and the nearby Perseus constellation,” he said. Note that the outline of the Perseus constellation looks like a bipedal alien.
Zog from Margo posts warnings about Pleiadians
The November 24th News-Herald arrived only recently at our winter vacation spot here at Detritus Island in extreme southern California. Detritus Island is composed mostly of discarded plastic water-bottles, so it floats, and its exact location is sometimes difficult for the postal service to locate. Anyway, I was dismayed to learn that the Pleiadians have an important new colony in […]
Night sky dimmed by excessive lights
Last weekend we participated in some of the Dark Sky activities in Grand Marais that celebrated the fact that we live in a place where the night sky can still be enjoyed by us all because of the lack of light pollution. On our drive back to the west side of the county, we couldn’t help but notice numerous cases […]
Just say no to the Fall River Bridge
As I See ItThis letter is in response to the article in the December 15, 2018 issue of the Cook County News-Herald about the Gitchie Gami State Trail between the Cut Face Wayside Rest and the west limits of Grand Marais. In an email that Erica Rivers, director of the Division of Parks and Trails sent to Bryan Hansel and me she said: […]
