This week, the Gunflint Trail Volunteer Fire Department/EMS, in conjunction with the Cook County Sheriff ’s Office and Dispatch, Emergency Management & PIO Department, Cook County Search & Rescue (SAR), and the U.S. Forest Service Superior National Forest, led an evacuation exercise at the end of the Gunflint Trail. With command staff based out of Hall 3 located next to […]
Highlights and resolutions from the Cook County Board of Commissioner’s May 28 meeting
. Cook County Visitor’s Bureau asked for a partial mortgage release for parcel 38, which is frontage land that MnDOT needs for the Highway 61 reconstruction through Grand Marais. The partial mortgage release from the county revolving loan fund, which they received August 7, 2014, does not affect the security of the revolving loan given to CCVB, because the remaining […]
Changes in valuation and classification of property explained
The Cook County Assessor’s Office is in the process of finalizing the January 2019 assessment for taxes payable in 2020. The yellow valuation notices that taxpayers received with their tax statements this spring indicate the assessment work that was completed within the City of Grand Marais this past year. As part of the ongoing effort to comply with the Department […]
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Staff from the Arrowhead Regional Development Commission (ARDC) has been meeting with local representatives from the Lutsen townboard to plan the Gitchi Gami Trail route from the bottom of the Lutsen Mountains Road to the Lutsen town center and to the east has involved three public meetings with CJ Fernandez, landscape architect. Gitchi Gami State Trail is a planned non-motorized, […]
Grand Marais City Council signs agreement with MnDOT on Highway 61 project
On May 29, the Grand Marais City Council passed a resolution supporting a Highway 61 cost share and maintenance agreement with the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) for the work that will take place in Grand Marais in 2020 and 2021. The contract calls for the city to pay the state for the city’s share of the costs of the […]
Vikings win two games, fall to Ely to end season
After a first game playoff loss to Carlton, the CCHS Viking baseball team knew it had to keep winning to get to the Section 7A finals, unfortunately, despite a great season and a 17-5 won-loss record, they came up short. Vikings defeated Littlefork-Big Falls With the score 2-2 after two innings, it looked like it was going to be a […]
Haussner qualifies for state in three events
Cook County High School senior track athlete Jack Haussner won two events and was second in another at the Section 7A track meet held at UMD on Thursday, May 30, qualifying for the Minnesota state track meet in all three. Jack continued his dominance of the 110- meter high hurdles, running a lifetime best of 15.2. He was 1.1 seconds […]
Lutsen Resort restores restaurant, adds new cuisine to menu
Combining a newly restored dining room and a creative menu with the largest selection of wine on the North Shore, Lutsen Resort is aiming to define North Shore cuisine. Lutsen Resort, founded in 1885, sold on August 15, 2018 to Bryce and Sheila Campbell of Campbell Hospitality Group. Within four months of the sale, the dining room restoration was under […]
Nature’s Poetry of Life, Who’s Watching Who? A book review
Local author John Bragstad is at it again, this time putting pen to paper to create an elegant book of Northern free verse poetry set in our back yard. In Who’s Watching Who? John, a former teacher, pastor, canoe guide and long-time Marriage and Family counselor, now retired, brings to life the simple things in nature that many of us […]
Lake of a Thousand Lakes
The gravel road is often bumpy, sometimes rising into long hills then rolling down to flatter terrain. Chunks of Canadian wilderness spill from its sides, mountain ash, birch, tamarac. Tall red and white pines spire the blue sky. Our vehicle is a mere black dot traversing this wild and beautiful forest. We are on our way to one of my […]