In a move pandering to Metro area legislators and environmental zealots, tone-deaf Governor Tim Walz and the Minnesota Department of Commerce appealed, for the second time, the Public Utilities Commission’s decision approving Enbridge’s $2.9 billion Line 3 replacement pipeline. In a letter supporting Walz and Commerce, 16 Metro area DFL lawmakers said the decision was based upon a finding that […]
The wise and the intelligent
Jesus said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.” “Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon […]
Mary F. Meyers
Mary F. Meyers, 94, of Grand Marais, died Monday, August 24, 2020, at North Shore Living Care Center in Grand Marais. She was born on April 17, 1926, to John W. and Nellie (Kreckler) Saylor near New Lebanon, Ohio. Mary grew up and attended school in Vista, California. When she was in high school, she was in the National Honor […]
Thomas Martin Hicks
Thomas Martin Hicks, of Grand Marais, Minnesota, passed away on Friday, August 28, 2020, at St. Luke’s Hospital in Duluth after a brief but fierce battle with heart disease. He was 66 years old. Tom was born on April 11, 1954, in Tracy, Minnesota, to Donald and Janet (Strebel) Hicks. He graduated from Tracy High School in 1972. He then […]
Historical Reflections
Miniature golf entrepreneurs Jim Levandis and Dennis Morgan stand in front of the 18 hole golf course and office they recently carved out of the woods. The Harbor Bluff course is located on the south side of Highway 61 between Saethre’s Traveler’s Rest and Hedstrom’s Retail Lumber Yard. The challenging course winds through a wooded site and plays to a […]
Tom Lake to Maple Hill— the hard way!
Cook County Historical Center archives Wayne Anderson shared his dad’s 1906 story during a 2008 interview. “When my dad was, I think 17, he and Osborne Ellquist, they trapped together. They had a trapping cabin at Northern Light Lake. They would walk—there was no road to Northern Light Lake. [From there] they’d go on the trap line along the way, […]
Down Memory Lane
20 YEARS AGOSEPTEMBER 4, 2000 With wildfires raging out of control in thirteen western states, area firefighters have been called on to lend a hand. Currently, more than thirty U.S. Forest Service personnel have been assigned to fight the western fires, most either in Montana, Idaho or Wyoming. So far this year the fires have consumed an area larger than […]
Still time to sign up and be a census worker
Sam Fettig, Minnesota Partnership Coordinator called to say there is still time to sign up to be a 2020 census worker. The 2020 census must be completed by the end of September and the push is on to get as many people to sign up as possible. “Workers can put in as little as five hours per week to 40 […]
Recall on Progresso Organic Chicken Noodle Soup
Faribault Foods Inc., a Faribault, Minnesota business, is recalling approximately 15,134 pounds of canned soup product due to misbranding and undeclared allergens, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The product contains milk and soy, known allergens, as well as beef and pork, which are not declared on the product label. The cans labeled […]