MnDOT staff report On Monday, April 19, at 4 p.m., MnDOT staff will be holding a virtual public meeting to provide updates on Highway 61 construction in Grand Marais. The second year of construction in the City of Grand Marais is expected to start mid-May. The meeting can be logged into online via WebEx and there is a phone call […]
Viking baseball team is on the rebuild
Cook County High School Baseball Coach Arleigh Jorgenson will field a far different baseball team than the one he coached two years ago. That was the last time the Vikings took to the playing field because last year’s season was wiped out by COVID-19. Coming off that cancelled 2020 season, few of the 30 kids out this year have any […]
Call for entries in Minnesota Statewide Author Contests
The Arrowhead Library System (ALS) joins libraries throughout the state in announcing the call for entries in this year’s Minnesota Author Project statewide contest for independently published Young Adult and Adult Fiction. This is the contest’s fourth year. The Minnesota Author Project Communities Create category, introduced last year, is also inviting entries for its second year. Communities Create seeks creative […]
Go to where the geese are
“If you want to get geese,” my old man would say, “do what the goose hunters do: go to where the geese are.” Motor out on a big lake and look to where the other boats are. Get onto a lake in winter and look where all the ice houses are; if there are no other houses or fisherman, look […]
Eagles, Cats and Laundromats
Dick and I were relaxing in our lawn chairs, watching the sunset over the White River, well into the first week of our spring sojourn in the Ozarks. Trees were budding, and the grass was green. Sitting outside felt wonderful after a long cold Minnesota winter. “Look! “Dick pointed. I looked at the sky, thinking to see some heavenly occurrence, […]
ISD 166 School Board begins search for new district superintendent
On April 8, 2021, the ISD 166 school board began a search for “an exceptional leader” to be the next District Superintendent. Cook County ISD 166 covers 3,340 square miles and serves the North Shore communities of Grand Marais, Lutsen, Tofte, Schroeder, Gunflint Trail, Hovland, and Grand Portage. The district has a current enrollment of 417 students, with small class […]
Boaters: use online services to renew your watercraft registration
Boaters, remember to give yourself enough time to renew your watercraft registration if it has expired. As a result of COVID-19 and an increase in requests, the DNR License Center currently is requiring up to nine weeks to process mail-in boat registration renewals. Additional staff have been pulled in to help with the backlog. To avoid the wait, the DNR […]
HydroClim Minnesota for Early April 2021
– March monthly precipitation totals were generally above normal across the southwest, east central and northeast, but below normal in the northwest. The wettest areas were in east central Minnesota where a surplus of one to one-and-a-half inches was common. Most of the precipitation came in the second half of the month with an event on March 23-24 making up […]
Viking softball team will be young this year
Much like the baseball team, the Viking 2021 softball team will be young, and it will have even more youth than the baseball team. Head Coach Jessie Anderson has a field of 21 players out practicing down at the Rec Park, and she’s optimistic if not realistic. The 2021 Viking team includes only one senior, two juniors, three sophomores and […]
Stream trout fishing opens statewide on April 17
Minnesota’s popular warm weather stream trout season opens Saturday, April 17, with quality fishing opportunities in every region of the state. Brook trout and splake fishing also open April 17 on Lake Superior and its tributary streams. “Minnesota has some excellent trout fishing and anglers help pay for trout habitat and access improvements with their fishing licenses and trout stamps,” […]