Bryan Hansel’s photography comes into focus with new filter design
When noted local nature photographer Bryan Hansel can’t take the picture he sees because of limitations to his camera gear, he fixes those limitations. It doesn’t happen overnight, but he’s steadfast in his desire to improve his camera’s technical capabilities, and those improvements are well noted by the company that has developed and sells two of his innovations. After several […]
A look back at the life of John Lyght
In 2010, January 15, John Lyght passed away at the North Shore Hospital in Grand Marais. He was 82 years old. Diabetes and heart disease took him from this earth, but his legacy lives on. As a cub reporter in the early 1980’s I did a story about one of my father’s lumberjacks who cut, peeled, hewed, and fashioned a […]
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Brislance says, “We found a flock of White-winged Crossbills in town on Saturday feeding on some spruce cones. This has been an irruption year for the crossbills, and we have been seeing more of them in our area this winter than we normally do. It is really fun to watch them pry apart the cones with their unusually shaped bills.”
Bruce Dahlman, MD, honored with AAFP 2020 Humanitarian Award
A Grand Marais physician with international roots has received the prestigious American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) 2020 Humanitarian award. Bruce Dahlman, MD MSHPE, “has made a lasting impact on the specialty of family medicine through his efforts to expand family medicine training to under-resourced communities across rural Africa,” said the AAFP press release. The American Academy of Family Physicians […]
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Ruby’s Pantry Cook County Ruby’s Pantry, 2nd Tuesday of the month food distribution 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m., $20 (cash only) Sponsored by Spirit of the Wilderness Church. You will be amazed at all the food you get at the Cook County Community Center. No financial or other qualifications—this is surplus food for all! Cook County Higher Education Career training […]
Sever their roots
In 1953, B. Carroll Reece, Congressman from Eastern Tennessee, chaired a five-member committee who began an investigation into the American Establishment: the Tax-Exempt Foundations. The Reece Committee Hearings exposed America’s major tax-exempt foundations as moving toward a One-World State. Democrat committee member, Representative Wayne Hays (Ohio), whose career would end in a sexual scandal in 1976, was able to persuade […]
A pipeline to economic recovery
020 hit us hard. Small businesses were rocked, and people were put out of work, that really hurt our local economies. Thankfully, things have taken a turn, Main Street Minnesota is slowly opening back up, folks are getting back to work, and finally, construction on the Line 3 pipeline is underway. I have long been a supporter of this important […]
As I see it
Keep the choice open for people wanting, or not wanting to take the COVID-19 vaccinationMost people trust vaccines because they are rigorously tested and finally approved after many years. According to available data, the COVID-19 vaccine is actually an mRNA experimental gene therapy, unlike any FDA-approved vaccine on the market today. These experimental vaccines have been tested and are offered to the public under the EUA, Emergency Use Authorization. Drug companies face no liability. […]
COVID-19 relief funding awarded to Cook County businesses
Forty-two Cook County businesses are receiving business assistance grants of up to $7,500 as part of a COVID-19 economic relief bill passed by the Minnesota Legislature in December. The relief bill included $114.8 million in payments to counties for distribution to businesses that had to close or curtail operations to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Cook County received a minimum […]