In a historic, sweet moment, Eleanor Waha, age 95, Leonard Sobanja, 94, Wayne Anderson, 87, and Alta McQuatters, 75, were given honorary lifetime membership to the Cook County Historical Society by the Cook County Historical Society board. A small afternoon party was held for the four of them on Thursday, April 18, with a cake and coffee served at the […]
County board discusses recording open meetings
Should the Cook County commissioners record open meetings? And should the board make adjustments to its guidelines for the county board public comment period? These were feature topics of discussion at the board’s April 16 committee of the whole meeting, and while no vote was taken and nothing has changed about the board’s current meeting recording schedule, it’s a topic […]
North Shore Health Board looks at forming a bad debt collection policy
North Shore Health (NSH) Administrator Kimber Wraalstad requested board approval to pay NorthStar Communications $5,284.62 for a fire alarm system they installed in the ambulance garage in February 2019. Kimber made the request at the hospital board’s April 18 meeting. NorthStar Communications added a fire alarm system that included heat detectors, smoke detectors, and carbon monoxide detectors in the garage. […]
Clearview General Store celebrates five years with expanded selection
This April marks five years of Gail and John Thompson’s ownership of Clearview General Store in Lutsen. Over that time they have made changes and added products to keep up with the demand of the community. The biggest change has come recently with a new partnership with Mason Brothers Wholesale Grocery out of Wadena, Minn. This new partnership allows Clearview […]
Beware of rumble strips
You guys don’t know what you are in for with the road shoulder rumble/mumble strips. We are just above them in Little Marais. You won’t feel the same about sitting outside or opening your windows. Your perception of “being away from it all” will change. Other folks will seem more intrusive, less welcome. You won’t like it. MnDOT is well-intentioned, […]
Fake news, comic strip, or ?????
Let’s take a look at a new “feature” of this community newspaper: “Do You Know?” Apparently the author has difficulty distinguishing civic discourse from civility; fiction from fact; and the concept of “out of context” reporting. His fictionalized account of a non-existent public meeting seems to serve no purpose, other than to heap all responsibility and blame for any problems […]
Beware of ticks!
A Visit Cook County ad played in the background on April 15th with a blanket of snow covering our woods in Tofte from the latest ferocious storm, when my husband called out, “I just pulled a tick off of the dog!” What? Unbelievable, after a winter of deep suffocating snow and cold so intense and arctic it made our chickadees […]
Thank you Jake, Steve, and News-Herald
Thank you Jake for a beautiful “True Easter” poem. Thank you Steve for your loyal opposition opinion “As I See It.” No doubt you will see my opinions as being from that small group of ill-informed, fuzzy thinking individuals who support the News-Herald, and, Garry Gamble’s opinion that our county commissioners are not listening to the people, and are spending […]
Writer disagrees with Do You Know? column
I did give Garry Gamble’s Do You Know? column of April 6 “educating” the News-Herald readership on WTIP’s Joe Fredrick’s interview with county administrator Jeff Cadwell a cursory reading but did not follow up on it. I am very grateful that WTIP did provide a follow up article on April 12 on Boreal.org. I urge everyone to read it (and […]
A trend that needs resisting…
D.J. Tice, commentary editor and columnist with the Star Tribune and a writer, editor and publisher in Twin Cities journalism for nearly four decades, suggested this past week that, “A renewed zeal for secrecy in government seems abroad in many quarters.” One wonders where he has been conducting his research? If he happened to be listening in on recent meetings […]