Grand Marais Playhouse back in production
The Grand Marais Playhouse is OPEN! Yes, things look a little different but theater is happening. While we wait until the opening night that brings us all together in the shared space of the theater, the Playhouse is busy teaching theater, cleaning spaces, writing and in rehearsal! Yes, we are in rehearsal with the production of The Remarkable Susan by […]
A squirrel story
I woke up on a recent pre-dawn morning to a strange sound in the living room. Was that my husband’s footsteps? His voice called, “I need help!” I threw on a robe, found my glasses and ran. Had a burglar broken in? Was a bear lumbering on our deck? “What’s wrong?” Barely awake with eyes still focusing, I saw Dick […]
Constellation charts available online
Anyone who has spent time looking at stars in the southern hemisphere might have noticed that the night sky is completely different in Minnesota. The Southern Cross (Cruz del Sur) indicates the direction of the cardinal point it is named after and can be seen south of the Equator year-round. Andromeda is visible now that it’s spring in the southern […]
Artist Kari Vick teams up with Carol Hagen
Even Grandma makes mistakes, learns young Ella, the child character in a new Nordic-themed children’s book written by Carol Hagen of Decorah, Iowa. What’s in the Rommegrot?! is a sweet read-aloud storybook filled with fresh, vibrant illustrations by Kari Vick, an artist affiliated with the Sivertson Gallery in Grand Marais, who collaborated with Hagen on the book. Penfield Press in […]
Conservation Officer Tales
Although the Cook County News-Herald knows that the majority of sportsmen and women are law-abiding folks, there are a few that run afoul of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Conservation Officers. Periodically, the DNR provides a report of some of the miscreants the Conservation Officers (CO) have encountered. The News-Herald shares these stories as a reminder to all […]
Matters of Record
Thomas Callahan Busch, 35, Cottage Grove, Minnesota, pled guilty on September 14, 2020, to a misdemeanor of driving while impaired (DWI), operating a motor vehicle with an alcohol concentration 0.08 (within two hours) on July 28, 2020. Convicted and sentenced on October 5, 2020, to local confinement (60 days stayed for one year with credit for one day served), one […]