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First one to blink loses! This young fox was having a stare down with a white petaled golden buttoned long green stemmed “dangerous” Daisy. Not too sure who won but the Daisy was definitely holding its own.
Project 61: Cook County Businesses create on-line resource to help visitors navigate Highway 61 road construction
The Cook County Chamber of Commerce, Visit Cook County, and Boreal Community Media have created an on-line resource to keep the public informed on North Shore road construction. Named Project 61, the on-line website will report on the various locations and phases of the Highway 61 construction, including information on scope of work to be performed, schedules, details on road […]
Highway 61 roadwork commences
The sounds of large machinery, excavators, dump trucks, belly loaders, large cats, and other road building equipment filled the downtown area on May 6, as the second phase of the two-year Highway 61 project got under way. This week the Minnesota Control Agency (MPCA) will start a dig site on Highway 61 near 3rd Avenue West. That project is expected […]
Full length feature film coming to the North Shore
A full-length feature film is now in production along the North Shore. Headquartered in Two Harbors, the movie is produced by 37th Degree, a New York company. A press release describes the plot as, “a philosophical mystery masquerading as a thriller set in northeastern Minnesota.” The working title is “Far, Far Away”, and stars rising Korean actor Seongbeom Jang (“The […]
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A waking sun washes the dark water and paints the clouds as it gets ready to rise and lift the new green coming and stir the peeping leaves into a song bright with chirping birds and new life. Welcome to another day on the North Shore.
Herbicides versus mechanical vegetative management
In a recent radio interview on WTIP, Arrowhead Cooperative CEO/General Manager John Twiest explained the Cooperative’s intent to add herbicides to its power-line right-of-way Integrated Vegetation Management (IVM) plan. Twiest attempted to quell the community’s concerns about the assortment of herbicides and associated chemicals that will be used along 560 miles of Arrowhead’s ROWs on a five-year rotation. He offered […]
The mad midnight moment
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear,” wrote C.S. Lewis in the opening line of A Grief Observed, written after his wife’s tragic death; a way for Lewis to survive the “mad midnight moment,” as he described it. As I shared in a previous column, “Take it all down,” (Issue January 16, 2021), one of our […]
Public invited to listening session for community center director recruitment
Public Information Coordinator Nick Cusick The University of Minnesota Extension and Cook County Government are inviting interested community members to provide input regarding the recruitment of a new director for the Cook County Community Center at a public listening session at 3 p.m. on Monday, May 17. Current Cook County Community Center/ Extension Director Diane Booth will retire later this […]
Four finalists selected for Cook County School District Superintendent position
The search for a new superintendent for I.S.D.166 narrowed this past week when a pool of eight applicants was winnowed to four. The four finalists are: *Cecelia Doge, WestEd, Project Director, St. Paul, Minnesota. *Todd Felhofer, District Administrator (Superintendent), Greenwood, Wisconsin. *Christopher Lindholm, Superintendent, Pequot Lakes, Minnesota. *Samuel Zimmerman, Harbor City International School, Director of Special Education and Student Services, […]