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Last week the combination of evening sun, clouds and water created a creamy, dreamy orange that bathed the harbor in spectacular color, if only for a short time.
Grand Marais Pharmacy stays open through September 8
Grand Marais Pharmacy will not close August 31 as expected, said Bob Sample. “We are going to stay open through Tuesday, September 8. Walgreens said they couldn’t accept our transfer of patient files until then.” Sample had originally planned to close on August 31. He called on Monday, August 17 to notify the paper of the change in schedule. With […]
ISD 166 School board votes for distance learning
Students in grades K-12 who are enrolled in ISD 166 this fall will attend school online. That was the decision the school board came to on August 13 after 3 ½ hours of sometimes-heated discussion and presentations by local health officials and two schoolteachers. When the votes were cast, Dan Shirley, Deb White, Carrie Jansen, and Rena Rogers cast their […]
Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa voters select Marie Spry for Tribal Council Committeeperson seat
With 54.84 percent of the vote in her favor, Marie Spry defeated incumbent Rick Anderson for the Grand Portage Tribal Committeeperson seat that was up for grabs on the August 18 general election. When the ballots were counted, Spry received 136 votes: 74 were absentee, and 62 were in-person votes. Anderson picked up 45.16 percent of the vote, tallying 112 […]
Sawtooth Mountain Clinic seeks pharmacy service choices for Cook County patients
Work is well under way to identify affordable alternative Pharmacy services with announcements expected soon. Sawtooth Mountain Clinic announced that it has begun exploring alternatives for pharmacy services in Cook County in response to the announcement that the Grand Marais Pharmacy will be closing on September 8. It is expected that alternatives will be in place soon so that patients […]
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Chanting “We want to go to school” students and their parents took to the streets of Grand Marais on August 19 to protest the I.S.D. 166 school board’s decision to have kids attend school online this fall. In a brief interview with WDIO TV, Stephanie Radloff said she organized the protest after seeing how disappointed her two kids were when […]
The long march to decadence
In 1923, a disparate assemblage of philosophers, cultural critics, and sociologists formed the Institute of Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany; popularly referred to as the Frankfurt School. The Frankfurt School consisted mostly of Neo-marxists (an offshoot of Marxism)who hoped for a socialist revolution in Germany but instead got fascism in the form of the Nazi Party. Neo-marxism differs from Marxism […]
Correction for Historical Reflections:
Last week’s Historical Reflections depicted a man “Uncle Richard”, standing next to a large pile of trash collected from the 1990 Rainbow Family gathering. The caption under the picture states “Dillon’s clean adopted Highway 61.” It’s true that Herb and Jan Dillon adopted and cleaned a two-mile stretch of Highway 61, but they don’t know Uncle Richard nor did they […]
Primary election voting concerns
I was an election judge for the primary election at the courthouse on Tuesday, August 11. Voting opened at 7:00 a.m. We had an issue arise about 10:30 a.m. when a voter inserted their ballot in the ballot counting machine. The screen had language about cross over voting, and gave options to the voter to have their ballot returned, or […]