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Sunshine spreads like melted butter across the evening harbor one night last week as paddleboarders and sailboats drifted and gently rocked on ripples of cold Lake Superior water.
Driver fatalities way up over last year, extra patrols will be on the lookout for unsafe drivers
Traffic deaths over the first six months of 2021 are higher than they have been in Minnesota since 2009. According to the Minnesota Department of Safety Public Office (DPS-OTS), who recently released these figures, there were 148 fatalities over the same time in 2020. Based on the increase in fatal accidents, the DPSOTS is coordinating extra speed patrols during July. […]
Taconite Area Community Relief grants aid Cook County
The North Shore area was one of 12 northeastern Minnesota communities that received a Taconite Area Community Relief grant from Iron Range Resources & Rehabilitation. Cook County Grand Marais Economic Development Authority (EDA) received a $250,000 grant and combined it with $190,000 of its own funds to provide $440,000 in financial assistance to 15 pandemic-distressed businesses and two nonprofits. The […]
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Post 413 Honor Guard lead off the Tofte July 4th parade. The parade route was crowded by locals and spectators that came from all over the midwest.
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This wily weasel, all decked out in its summer coat, poked its head out from this cedar tree and gave Paul Sundberg a long glance before deciding Paul was no threat and then retreated back inside.
Northland Foundation promotes Zane Bail to Chief Operating Officer
Formerly the Director of Development and Special Projects, she brings 25 years of experience at the foundation to her new roleThe Northland Foundation has announced that longtime staff member Zane Bail has been named Chief Operating Officer effective July 1, 2021. The promotion to COO represents a position that is new to both Bail and the foundation. Bail joined the Northland Foundation in 1997, and for more than a decade, served as Director of Development and Special Projects. In that […]
Kindness from total strangers
Kindness from total strangers is so overlooked, and although I have a few names, I do need to say a huge THANK YOU to all of the good Samaritans who stopped everything to help me when I slid down a five-foot cliff at Temperance River State Park on Wednesday, June 16, late morning. I have hiked Temperance River Trails so […]
The ultimate inversion
On his first day in office, President Biden dispatched a letter to the United Nations, blithely signaling that the United States was back on board with the Paris “Climate” Agreement. President Obama was the first president to formally drag the United States into the concealed stratagem agreement back in September 2016. He managed to do so under international law through […]
Results of the EJI Criminal Justice Survey are in
On March 31, Cook County’s Equity in Justice Initiative published its Cook County Criminal Justice Survey, an inaugural effort at collecting anonymous opinions about justice from people of all backgrounds who have interacted with the local criminal justice system. Eighty people responded to the survey during its two-week circulation. This article is meant to provide a summary description of survey […]