Grand Marais Public Utilities Commission adopts policy on net metering and considers non-payment issues
The Grand Marais PUC met on Wednesday, February 3, and greeted Tracy Benson as a new board member. The PUC Board is now made up of Ann Posis, Tracy Benson, and the city council liaison, Craig Schulte. Ann Posis was voted chair for 2021. Sustainability Coordinator Shane Steele asked the board to approve a policy and rules update from Minnesota […]
Not just giving up sweets
I remember being shocked when my best friend in fourth grade, Mary, confided in me that she couldn’t share our usual candy bar, because it was Lent. Lent? As a good Presbyterian, I’d never heard of such a thing. In the earliest church, the forty days of Lent were preparation time for those to be baptized during the Easter Vigil. […]
Peter Joel Floe
Peter Joel Floe was born on April 17, 1938, to Ruth (Skaarhaug) Floe and Peter M. Floe in Fargo, North Dakota. The Floes moved around Minnesota a few times before settling in Grand Marais, Minnesota, where Peter and his younger sister, Lola (Floe) Lamont, were raised. Growing up, Peter was an avid reader, often getting lost in science fiction tales […]
America’s Coolest Small Zoom Town!
The Cook County real estate market entered 2020 strong: inventory was declining, asking prices were increasing and the time a new listing spent on the market was typically low. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, increasing the demand for rural living across America. In the early stages of the April lockdown, the market was in a holding pattern while logistics for […]
Historical Reflections
September 24, 1990 The Winners: Bobby Don Brazell and John McClure show off shotguns they took home as door prizes from the annual Ducks Unlimited Banquet last Wednesday. Ducks Unlimited Co-Chairmen Doug Gilchrist and Gene Nelson are in the back.
Down Memory Lane
20 YEARS AGOFEBRUARY 19, 2001 The Cook County/Grand Marais Economic Development Authority (EDA) met on February 13 to discuss a number of important issues. Perhaps most important on the docket was the possible sale of the North Shore Business Incubator Building to the owners of Waters of Superior, the business currently housed in the building. The appraisal of the property, […]
Great Lakes gaining ice
According to Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, on February 12, the average ice concentration on Lake Superior was 23 percent. That’s not a lot, but it’s a lot more than it was before the big ten-day Polar Vortex. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports that 32 percent of […]
Hedstrom Lumber to build employee housing
What do you do when you are losing good employees because they can’t find suitable housing they can afford? You either find accommodations for them or, in Hedstrom Lumber Company’s case, you decide to build affordable employee housing. When asked what prompted the move, Tina Hegg Raway, Hedstrom’s Vice President of Financing, answered, “A couple of years ago, we discovered […]
DNR adjusts how married anglers and hunters buy combination licenses
Both members of married couples who want to purchase a combination angling or hunting license will need to be present at the sales location starting February 18, when the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will begin requiring both spouses to provide and verify their own complete customer records on file to purchase a combination license. “These changes will bring the […]