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As hundreds of people looked on, and the children crowded nearest—smiling in glee—Grand Marais Mayor Jay Arrowsmith DeCoux got his head, beard and even his eyebrows shaved off by Andrea (Peterson) Everson to raise money for Paulina (Smith) Backstrom, who is suffering from Stage 4 Thymus cancer. Jay’s loss of hair ended up raising more than $7,500 in donations to […]
Redshaw wins first place in the Minnesota State Old Time Fiddle Championships
Martine Redshaw, Hovland, is this year’s first place winner in the Junior Division of the Minnesota State Old Time Fiddle Championships held August 3, 2019 at Merritt Elementary School Auditorium in Mountain Iron on August 3, 2019. In the first round Martine played two songs, then three songs in the second round. Her father, John, on guitar, accompanied her. All […]
Grand Marais City Council takes down online property survey following complaints from the public
While the intentions might have been good, the initial results of a public opinion online survey posted on the city of Grand Marais Facebook page and city’s website garnered over 500 opinions, but many of them were scathing in their reaction to the city posting pictures of people’s homes and property. The city council met on Wednesday, August 14, and […]
MnDOT installing sinusoidal rumble strips along Highway 61
The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) began installing sinusoidal rumble strips at various locations along Highway 61 beginning Monday, Aug. 19. The sections of highway where sinusoidal rumble strips will be installed this year include from mile posts 46 to 50 south of Silver Bay, mile posts 77 to 78 south of Schroeder, mile posts 100 to 106 south of […]
Potential glampground running into obstacles
Pike Lake residents filled the August 14 Cook County Planning Commission meeting held in the Cook County commissioners’ room at 5 p.m., with most folks there to voice displeasure about a proposed “glampground” in a residential area of Pike Lake. Joe and Bailey Hutchence, currently of Duluth, are new property owners at 1219 Pike Lake Road, and recently they introduced […]
Lutsen man arrested for assault
Responding to a call of an alleged assault, Cook County sheriff deputies were dispatched to the Lutsen area on Thursday, August 15, and after an initial investigation, they arrested Mark Thomas Pavelich, 61, for repeatedly beating his neighbor with a metal pole. The man who was assaulted, a 63-year-old neighbor who lives two houses away on Deer Yard Lane, Lutsen, […]
Highway 61 revisited
As long as we’ve come to indulge the often extravagant diversion empowered by reimagining, how ’bout, in the course of envisioning a redesign of the Highway 61 corridor through Grand Marais, we reimagine a “town-hopping” freeway that bypasses the community of Grand Marais altogether? This would leave Highway 61 to the people who want to pedal their bikes and put […]
Hold off on taking down the trees
Tom Hoy writing again. We have a Charlie Boostrum log cabin on McFarland built in 1936 and currently building a new structure. I enjoy every week’s reading of the paper. Regarding the tree removal, it looks like MnDOT has a great deal of control – almost absolute power – to make decisions. It seems that reasonable folk would call another […]
What a community we live in!
On August 15 we all came together to support a wonderful wife, mother, sister, daughter, aunt, friend, who has one heck of a fight ahead of her, but our community came together to let her know we support her and her family. We knew we would have a great turnout but it was simply amazing to see how many came […]