The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the Minnesota Four Wheel Drive Association (Mn4WDA) invite the public to a virtual summit to discuss current and future off-road vehicle opportunities in the state to kick off a master planning process. The virtual event will take place from 6-7:30 p.m. on November 18. A recording of the summit will be available after […]
Winter Jeep Day
Tread Lightly, a local off-road group, and Seven Slots Posse will be hosting a Winter Jeep Day on December 12, 2020. “We will be gifting Seven Slots Posse blankets to veterans at the Silver Bay Veterans home, said local Tread Lightly leader Scott Benolken. The following day the group will meet with three veterans, one special needs child and one […]
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A gnawing problem to be sure, but this tree has met its match by a local beaver. The industrious rodent will soon have this tree in sections short enough to use for its lodge, or maybe the beaver is just using the tree like giant dental floss to keep its teeth from growing too large.
Wolf Island, a book review
Many of us living in the northland are familiar with L. David Mech, senior research scientist with U.S. Geological Survey and an adjunct professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, and Conservation Biology and Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior at the University of Minnesota. You may know him better as the founder of the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minnesota, […]
Cook County Chamber announces 2020 Business Leader awards
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, there wasn’t a Gala this year, where the Cook County Chamber of Commerce could honor local business leaders and entrepreneurs. Instead, the awards were announced over WTIP radio on Wednesday, October 28. Listed below are this year’s winners. Entrepreneur of the Year Christina Conroy, operator of the Rebel Girl Community Minded Catering and Bad Seed […]
Healing election grief
Most of us are experiencing some level of grief over the outcome of this election. Some of us were hoping for a progressive landslide that would give President-elect Biden a mandate for reform and a Senate majority to implement that. Others were hoping for four more years of Trump, with different outcomes regarding our pandemic and economic woes. I believe […]
Minnesota Physicians Support Governor Walz’s Order to tighten restrictions during pandemic
The Minnesota Medical Association (MMA), and its more than ten thousand physician, resident and medical student members, want to thank Governor Tim Walz for his decision to take needed action and further restrict opportunities to gather in large groups at bars and restaurants, and at receptions. The governor’s action will help slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and protect […]