Irene Peterson turns 100 on January 22
Irene Peterson is a lifelong resident of Grand Marais, the youngest of seven, born to Ole and Anna Allen. Longevity runs in the family as Irene’s father lived to age 92 and her siblings to the age range 84-99. Irene was a longtime bookkeeper at Grand Marais State Bank and was the first one to learn to use a computer […]
Business relief grants open for Cook County businesses
Individual businesses and nonprofits affected by the Covid-19 pandemic are eligible to apply for grants up to $7,500, but time is running out to get your application in. Applications are due at noon on Friday, January 22. All applicants must use the following guidelines when applying: * You must be located in the applicable county in the State of Minnesota […]
Township election candidates 2021
Lutsen Township needs a supervisor candidate for its town board in the spring election. No one filed for the soon-to-be vacant position as the filing period ended Tuesday evening, January 12. Tofte also has a blank spot on its ballot for the Treasurer office. These positions might be filled by write-in votes. All other incumbents up for election in March […]
ISD 166 School District’s inaugural school board meeting sets optimistic tone for the New Year
School in Cook County, and everywhere else, up to now has certainly seen its fair share of challenges for staff, parents and students. While the global pandemic may have thrown a wrench into normal plans, it seems that even in these unprecedented times, hope for a successful and productive calendar year is in the air for ISD #166. This was […]
Photo
There’s computer streaming and then there’s commuter streaming. Deidre Kettunen took this beautiful picture of the Cascade River when she was out for a recent drive. Many rivers haven’t frozen over because of the warm January temperatures we have been experiencing. That should change, however, as a good bit of cold air is expected to blow in from our Canadian […]
SPOTLIGHT: ISD166 School Board names Olivia Nesgoda as the Student Representative on the school board
Olivia Nesgoda, a junior at Cook County High school, was introduced last Thursday, January 7, at the inaugural school board meeting for 2021. Olivia is the second student representative since this program has started and will remain onboard for the 2021 calendar year. When asked why she became interested in this position, she explained, “I am really interested in advocacy […]
Take it all down
In the palm of her slender hand, she cradled the delicate ornament, a homemade trinket she had come to treasure from Christmases past. Carefully shrouding it in wrapping paper, she hoped to protect it for yet another year. She appeared reluctant to want to let it go, to seal it away, as it were. She lingered, transfixed in her thoughts, […]
Contrary to some opinions, the election was fair and transparent
The letter from Rae Peipho is an example of the disinformation and distrust fomented by four years of a lying president. Rather than point by point deconstructing the nonsense presented I will just point out that every item in that entire list has been disputed, refuted and rejected by every court they have been presented to, at last count 64 […]
We lost something as a nation
For my entire life, a part of a political party’s mantra has been that government is bad, that it deserved to be drowned in a bathtub, that nothing good could ever come from government, that fewer people should vote, that politicians should be able to pick their voters, that they were backed in their beliefs by their god, that only […]