Clearview General Store welcomes new owners
When Gail Thompson decided to advertise her Clearview business for sale, she said, “I expected it to take up to three years to sell. That’s what everybody was telling me.” Instead of three years, as soon as the business hit the real-estate pages, offers came in. One, in particular, made the most sense, said Thompson. “It’s from a local.” That […]
Carnahan speaks to Cook County Republicans
Jennifer Carnahan, who chairs the Minnesota Republican Party, pumped up the small gathering of Cook County Republicans on July 21 at a noon luncheon held at Skyport Lodge on Devil Track Lake. Carnahan told her fellow republicans that president Donald Trump spent $20,000 in 2016 in Minnesota, having only one staff member in the state, and won 77 out of […]
Round two of fall election season starts now
The filing period opens for school and hospital board positions. Grand Marais city council positions and the special election period for a county commissioner seat begin too. The next candidate-filing period for the fall elections starts Tuesday, July 28 and runs through August 11. This round of filings is for two seats on the District 166 school board, two seats […]
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Kelly Schmidt, a Hovland cabin owner, sent some awesome cloud pictures to the newspaper to share with our readers. On the evening of Wednesday, July 15, Kelly said, “We were fortunate enough to catch the amazing northern Minnesota sky. My daughter caught a glimpse of color out the window when she turned her head and for the next hour, we […]
Coincidence?
From the date of the earliest historical records, opinions have been divided on the subject of the causes and origins of pandemic diseases. In 1799, prolific author Noah Webster compiled a two-volume work titled, A Brief History of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases in which he references the influence of electricity on the human body. On page 317 of volume two […]
Hand on the Bible
Today, when someone is sworn in to holding a public office, he or she is asked to swear an oath while laying a hand on the Bible. This has been a United States tradition for many years and its rightfulness only questioned at times, like: “Why not The Constitution?” The reason for the hand on the book is that there […]
Black Lives Matter, but do you know what the Black Lives Matter organization stands for?
Recently a message appeared in this paper from the Chair of the Cook County School Board stating their support for Black Lives Matter. It is one thing to oppose racism, bullying, mistreatment of other people, any people, and quite another to support an organization founded by avowed Marxists, Opal Tometi, Alicia Garza & Patricia Kahn-Cullors who promote anarchy, violence and […]
Current administration is weaponizing the DHS
Sure, the Confederate flag is a political statement. It was the battle flag of slavers and it is a rallying banner for racists. Sure, the Lost Cause narrative has tried to redeem it, tried to whitewash the blood of murdered and lynched Black folks out of the Stars and Bars. Confederate soldiers massacred wounded and surrendered Black Union soldiers, and […]
