On Wednesday, November 18, lawyers for Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness signed an agreement with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) that establishes a process for addressing review and possible revision of state mining rules. Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness (NMW) is the lead organization in the campaign to Save the Boundary Waters. Terms of the agreement set the stage for […]
ISD 166 suspends in-person classes for grades K-3
Starting November 30, elementary students in kindergarten through third grade will no longer attend Sawtooth Elementary in-person. Instead, they will be instructed by their teachers through distance learning until January 18. Parents and the community were notified about the change through a COVID- 19 planning update email sent last week by ISD 166 Acting Superintendent/ Principal Megan Meyers. Part of […]
Cook County School District 166 Education Foundation Needs Your Help
All of us feel the urge to help one another in these pandemic days. Our local Education Foundation has relied on one fundraiser a year, E.A.T.S., and now with COVID-19, we cannot have this well-attended community event held every March. We can’t ask our restaurants or businesses to donate food or silent auction items when they’ve struggled financially. We can’t […]
Comfort from a Stranger
A couple of days ago, at 6:45 a.m. Cook County time, I attended (from my home) a meeting being held in Brooklyn, New York. There were 63 of us, ALL there, together, most of us strangers to one another. We were meeting in the no-longer-new-fangled method of Internet connection. At first it looks like a collection of photos on a […]
Mark Magnus Anderson
Mark Magnus Anderson, age 86, of Minneapolis, passed away peacefully at home on November 5, 2020. Mark is reunited with his family and dear friends he loved. He is preceded in death by wife Donna, parents Fritz and Lavinia, brother Joel and sister Kristi Downing. Mark is survived by: children Scott (Karen), Nathan (Jane), Karn; grandsons Justin (Beth), Otis and […]
Robert (Bob) Edwin Omoth
Robert (Bob) Edwin Omoth, age 90, passed away unexpectedly on November 14, 2020, at his home in Florida. He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Barbara J. (Swenson), daughters Nancy Metzger (Randy) and Pamela Postiglione (James), and grandchildren, William, Justin, Morgan, Garrett, and Natalie. He is preceded in death by his parents and twin brother, Jerry. He is […]
Harrold (Hal) W. Greenwood
Harold (Hal) W. Greenwood, born in Minneapolis in 1931, died November 19th at the Cook County North Shore Hospital in Grand Marais, Minnesota, at the age of 89. He is preceded in death by his wife, Carol, who he married in 1952. Hal and Carol have had ties to the Grand Marais area since 1968, becoming full time residents in […]
Richard Anthony Hendricks
Richard Anthony Hendricks of Palmer Alaska was born in Duluth, Minnesota, on October 1, 1951, to John Richard and Sally Philbin Hendricks. Having been a commercial salmon fisherman for 46 years in Alaska’s Bristol Bay area and beyond, on October 27, he flew his C170 for over three hours from Naknek, Alaska, back to a private airport in Butte, Alaska, […]
Historical Reflections
May 21, 1990 MINK RANCHING Mink Ranching used to be common on the North Shore. This photo was taken in 1946 at the Lutsen Mink Ranch. Photo courtesy of Cook County Historical Society.