Grace Grinager of Cook County Public Health received questions about smoking in outdoor dining areas. Is it allowed? Here is her response: “Neither the County nor MDH regulate smoking in outdoor areas. As a business, you have the power to put your own restrictions on smoking in outdoor areas if you choose to do so. “There is specific language about […]
Grand Portage Lodge & Casino announces reopening plans
At Grand Portage Lodge & Casino, the health and safety of our guests, employees and community is our highest priority. Our recent closure has been in close alignment with the COVID-19 response from Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the World Health Organization and Minnesota health departments. We are now planning the phased reopening of our property, with a tentative reopening […]
Cook County commissioners hold a busy online meeting
Checking in online, all five Cook County commissioners took part in the May 26 Cook County board meeting. Here are the highlights of the meeting. Commissioners approved the resignation of Assistant County Assessor Todd Smith. Smith will leave his position on June 5, 2020. In a memo to the board, Smith said he was resigning to “try to resolve the […]
Apologetics- the defense of the Christian faith
Last year I took up the topic of Apologetics, which is the defense of the Christian faith. We looked at the truth claims of Christianity, the reliability of the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) and the witnesses to the resurrection of Jesus, and the reliability of Jesus’ testimony of himself as God, proved by his resurrection, and finally, the […]
Ione B. Jones
Ione B. Jones, peacefully passed away on June 1, 2020, in the Grand Marais North Shore Care Center at the age of 102. She was born August 30, 1917, in Grand Marais, and started first grade in Grand Marais at the age of five. During her high school years, she played girls’ basketball and participated in plays, graduating from high […]
James “Jim” Steel
James “Jim” Steel was born in Rhode Island and grew up in South Bend, Indiana. He attended Ball State University on a swimming scholarship. Jim moved to the North Shore of Cook County Minnesota in the 1970s, where he started his own business in forestry management. Later, Jim moved to Duluth, Minnesota, and attained degrees in Psychology and Sociology from […]
Historical Reflections
Artist Susan Koob with her work “Fish Houses” in Lightning Pine Studios. Koob said,” Being a landscape artist puts me in a situation to have very close ties with the weather…My work represents the weather.”
Down Memory Lane
20 YEARS AGOMARCH 27, 2000 An excerpt from Frank Hansen’s column: “We know that spring is coming when the pine grosbeaks leave us to fly north to their summer range. They leave very abruptly. One day, as has been true all winter, there are dozens of pine grosbeaks and then there are none. We understand that we are on the […]
Support rally held for George Floyd
Saddened and troubled by the death of George Floyd, more than 80 Cook County residents took part in a half-hour long rally held near Java Moose along Highway 61 last Friday, May 29. It took only a couple of hours to get the word out that there would be a rally, said Denny Fitzpatrick, one of the event organizers. Passing […]