Upon reading the Over the Hill column in the June 20th issue of the News Herald, I felt compelled to write. The coronavirus is not “a flu” as Mrs. Crosby writes. In fact, it has a higher death rate, higher hospitalization rate, higher transmission rate and there is NO vaccine available at this time – making it an incredibly dangerous […]
Minnesota employers voice support for economic benefit of immigration
On June 23, 2020, 47 Minnesota companies, nonprofits, trade associations, and chambers of commerce reacted in opposition to President Trump’s recent executive order suspending immigration visas. Our statement is as follows: We stand with our foreign-born employees, many of whom are here on the classes of visa restricted by President Trump’s recent Executive Order. We oppose this order and its […]
Courthouse phasing in opening for court related appointments and absentee voting
The Cook County courthouse building opened its west entrance doors on June 15, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday- Friday. Starting July 1, the west entrance will be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. Absentee voting begins on June 26 and closes August 10 for the primary election. In order to cast an absentee ballot […]
And on the sixth day, God created humans
After creating everything else, on the sixth day, God creates human beings. We are the capstone of his creation. The creation is made for us. “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness,” Genesis says in chapter 1 verse 26. The two words “image” and “likeness” have similar meanings, but the idea is that we are like God, […]
Bonnieta Francis Johnson
Bonnieta Francis Johnson went home to heaven on June 16, 2020, peacefully in her sleep. She was born February 7, 1943, in Grand Marais, Minnesota. She was 77 years old. She is now with her son, Cory Johnson, her parents Doris and Frank Foster, her brothers Mike and Dvan Foster, and her sister, Patricia Johnson. Bonnieta “Bonnie” Johnson was an […]
Elizabeth A. “Bunny” Pearson
Elizabeth A. “Bunny” Pearson, 79, Grand Marais, died Sunday, March 15, 2020, in the North Shore Health Care Center. Bunny was born July 21, 1940, to Carl and Clarie (Skogh) Pearson in Minneapolis, where she grew up and attended school, graduating from Southwest High School in 1958. She was employed as a secretary at Valspar Corp for over 25 years […]
Gerald D. Jacobsen
Jerry Jacobsen, 91, died Sunday, May 31, 2020, in the VA related facility, Waterview Shores in Two Harbors. Jerry was born May 29, 1929, and grew up in Hovland, Minnesota. He was the youngest of eight siblings. Jerry made his home and raised his family in Grand Marais, after serving our country in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. […]
Historical Reflections
MOOSE/PATROL CAR CRASH This Minnesota State Patrol squad car was totaled in a collision with a moose near Paradise Beach on East Highway 61. The accident occurred on the night of July 1. Trooper Anthony D. Follen of Minneapolis received a broken nose and facial lacerations and spent two days in St. Mary’s Hospital.
Down Memory Lane
30 YEARS AGOJUNE 25, 1990 Hedstrom Lumber Company President Howard Hedstrom said Wednesday that it is his firm hope to start construction in September on a new $1 million chip mill that could add 10 jobs to the company payroll and $2.2 million in annual revenues. “We’ve been working on this for three years,” Hedstrom said. “The engineering is worked […]