Rendezvous Days/Pow Wow draws nearly 3,500 people
Grand Portage National Monument celebrated the annual Rendezvous Days weekend with 154 historic re-enactor camps on site with over 300 re-enactors attending from all over the United States, Ontario, and Manitoba. Participants eagerly shared their passion for the history of Grand Portage and the fur trade era of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Nearly 3,500 visitors attended the […]
People turn out to save the trees
Grand Marais City Hall was crowded on Thursday, Aug. 8, as an outpouring of people came to listen to MnDOT representatives explain the 2020-2021 Highway 61 road work that will take place through town. Central to most people’s thoughts was the issue of the town’s large elm trees that are slated to be cut down this fall to make room […]
Catalyst comes to the Northland
Cook County could one day become a place where movies and TV programs are filmed, or portions of them, anyway, bringing good-paying jobs with the filmmaking. And Cook County could also host locations where TV and film writers gather to work on scripts, Riki McManus told a small group of people on Tuesday, August 13, at Grand Marais city hall. […]
Summer Reading Picnic draws large crowd
Multitudes of children carpeted the library lawn on Tuesday, August 13, chasing bubbles, playing ping pong, laughing, running, frolicking about on a beautiful, joy-filled day. At noon, library director Steve Harsin said there were at least 150 people attending the fifth annual Grand Marais Public Library summer picnic. The picnic was held to celebrate the end of summer and the […]
Senators should protect our Endangered Species Act
With all the congressional drama happening in Washington, D.C., I don’t want to forget about one of our most fundamental environmental laws: the Endangered Species Act. Passed practically unanimously in 1973 during the Nixon administration, the Endangered Species Act protects our imperiled plants, wildlife, and habitat and recognizes that they “are of esthetic, ecological, educational, historical, recreational, and scientific value […]
Censorship?
I turned on YouTube to listen to the Cook County Board of Commissioners’ meeting held on Tuesday, Aug. 13. On the top right of the headline was the announcement that the public input period had been omitted. This is the third time these glitches have occurred. This latest one showed a confident Administrator Cadwell striding to his chair after successfully […]
Don’t give up on saving the elm trees just yet
If all goes according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s plan, by the end of this month, all but two of the 11 standing elm trees that line the entrance to Grand Marais will be cut down. At 70-80 years old, these trees form a canopy over Highway 61, creating a unique welcome to “America’s coolest small town.” If they […]
He’s wrong …
I know it’s next to impossible to change people or make them realize things they don’t want to see. Such appears to be the case with Cook County’s administrator. After all, we’ve had four years to observe how he operates …his modus operandi. The Budget Process … Given we are in the middle of another budget season, consider his approach […]
