West End election season starts, candidate filings begin soon
The candidate-filing period for the Lutsen, Schroeder, and Tofte township March elections is coming soon. Each of the towns will elect a supervisor and a town clerk, and candidates for the offices must file their nomination papers by Jan. 14. While township elections are sometimes low-key, it might be different this year in Schroeder where the clerk is retiring and […]
New Violence Prevention Center director named
The Violence Prevention Center (VPC) is thrilled to share the news that Lindsey Gau has accepted the job as the new VPC director. Lindsey brings with her 2½ years of experience working in all areas of services and programming at the Violence Prevention Center. In her role prior to joining the Violence Prevention Center, Lindsey worked for a large organization […]
WISE and Lions partner to give grants to area schools
The WISE (Women’s Initiative for Service and Education) and the Lions Clubs work to help the young people in our county. This month they are happy to combine resources and fund the 2019 Classroom Education grant recipients for 2019-2020. All public and charter schools in Cook County were invited to apply for grants. The grant allocation per school is determined […]
Grand Marais city council approves levy
Grand Marais city councilors approved a modest 1.48 percent levy increase for the current year collectable in 2020 at the council’s December 18 meeting. In dollar amounts, the city will collect $973,177.72. Gunflint Hills golf course superintendent Paul Jones and Grand Marais Recreation Park director Dave Tersteeg came before the council with a request to purchase two fairway mowers. The […]
Fact or fiction? (Revisited)
Wow! Contempt and it looks like a little jealousy all rolled up into one nonsensical political tale by Mr. Hjorth in his letter to the editor on December 14. It’s obvious that he doesn’t follow his own recommendations since the title of an article he wrote in August 2012 was “Reject nonsensical political preaching”. Regardless of the subject matter, this […]
Political games are afoot
Regarding population control and climate change: It doesn’t matter if we control population growth so long as that population continues to utilize fossil fuels in the way we do now. We could institute a global population cap at the current level and still catapult ourselves into extinction because we wish to eat meat, use fossil fuels at the current rate, […]
Apology offered for Winter Solstice Pageant
Dear Friends and Neighbors, The Good Harbor Hill Players would like to extend a heart-felt apology to our community. We are sincerely sorry that so much of the content and tenor of this year’s Winter Solstice Pageant was both harsh and negative, especially towards women and loggers. This was not our intention when the show was first conceived, but somehow […]
Quiet assurance …
Christmas has always been the season for music for our family, as I am certain it has for families around the globe. We were able to attend three Christmas concerts during this reflective interval, beginning with the Borealis Chorale and Orchestra annual concert held at Bethlehem Lutheran Church here in Grand Marais. The following weekend we traveled to the cities […]
Stauber introduces a bill to cut insulin prices to treat diabetes
With out-of-pocket cost to purchase a vial of insulin topping $300, Minnesota’s 8th District congressional representative Pete Stauber slipped some insulin cost-reduction language into a Democratic bill aimed at lowering prescription drug costs. Stauber penned the amendment language in the Lower Drug Costs Now Act, which was introduced this fall. If the bill is passed, it will pass insulin rebates […]