Riders line up to take part in the Le Grand Du Nord gravel grind bike race this last Saturday. The riders started in small waves to cut down the chance of covid spreading through a group.

On the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death, a group of concerned citizens gathered at Harbor Park in Grand Marais to look back on the long year of events that has transpired. Ann Russ led with a song, Carly Puch led nine minutes and 28 seconds of silence before Denny Fitzpatrick concluded with: “On the anniversary of George Floyd’s death, […]

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Anne Brataas, editor and publisher for BorealCorps, the Youth Digital Media Project of Minnesota Children’s Press, won a scholarship valued at $800 which will allow her to attend a two-day Zoom conference sponsored by MIT and the Harvard Business School on the role of technology in the future of work. The two-day session will be June 8-10. Called EmTech Next, […]

Commander Bob Mattson (on left) presents Thomas Danielson, a Korean War Navy Veteran, with a certificate to mark his 60 year continuous membership in the American Legion.

No, this isn’t a ghost ship. It’s the research vessel, the 77.5- foot Arcticus, caught in the Grand Marais harbor fog. The research vessel is operated by the Great Lakes Science Center, an arm of the U.S. Geological Survey. The steel-hulled ship is designed to conduct lake-wide bottom trawl surveys, acoustic surveys, and gill net surveys. More than half of […]

The Maple Hill Church cemetery has soldiers from the Civil War to the latest wars buried there. As in all U.S. cemeteries, the flag, like the one above, is posted to mark U.S. veterans’ graves.