Cook County votes for Bernie Sanders
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders received 376 votes to lead all Democratic presidential candidates in the Cook County primary. Senator Amy Klobuchar, who dropped out of the race for president one day before the Super Tuesday election, received 339 votes. Former Vice President Joe Biden picked up 333 votes, Elizabeth Warren got 271, Mayor Pete Buttigeg, who also dropped out of […]
The City of Grand Marais is taking a serious look at its housing issues
The City Council has recognized a need for additional housing in Grand Marais and access to housing that all people can afford throughout their lives was established as a community value in Grand Marais’ recent vision plan. The Planning Commission believes that the best way for the city to aid in the development of more housing is to increase property […]
MIAC declares March 21, 2020, Census Pow Wow Day
Abiding by the rules of the US Constitution, every ten years all residents living in the United States must be counted. However, one group of people is perennially undercounted: Native Americans, the first people. Agatha Armstrong, Executive Assistant for the Grand Portage Tribal Council attended the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council (MIAC) Executive Board meeting in Saint Paul on February 17 […]
Grand Marais City Council will seek a lot in the business park for a new dog/animal pound
On Wednesday, February 26 Grand Marais city councilors agreed to seek the lot above the Como tanks in the business park to use as space to install a dog run and dog/ animal pound. For that to happen, though, a few things have to take place first. The 1.1-acre lot is the same lot the Grand Marais Public Utilities Commission […]
Are EV vehicles in the county’s future?
Grand Marais Sustainability Coordinator Shane Steele came before the Cook County Commissioners on Tuesday, February 25, with a proposal from the city. Steele said the city had received a grant to do an electric vehicle (EV) Suitability Assessment on the city’s fleet of vehicles. The grant had come from the Clean Energy Research Team (CERTs), who said they would double […]
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On Wednesday, March 4 Grand Marais PUC workers repaired a broken water main located at 8th Avenue West between 1st and 2nd streets. The break was detected on Sunday through the city’s metering system. A leak detection company from the Twin Cities was called to locate the line break. The city was losing about 100,000 gallons of water per day.
Vote Yes or No!
I would like to thank the Cook County Board on voting unanimously to spend $11,000 for trail signage. At the same time, they don’t understand that the Border-to-Border (B2B) OHV Touring Route was going to place signage on a lot of the same trails with no cost to the county taxpayers. This was done with no plan or a 3-year […]
Robotics, B2B and more
Two bits of positive news came out of Grand Marais this week, at least in my estimation. First, the Ice Storm article regarding the robotics competition. It was an extensive piece of writing on another amazing group of young people in Cook County. These “kids” are building a robot for the regional tournament in Duluth as others have in the […]