Recently Yarrow Korf spent an evening touching up the giant walleye that extends out of the Beaver House. Yarrow’s late father Jim Korf made the iconic walleye, and as Yarrow noted, pointing to his young children who were watching him, a third generation was coming along who would one day care for the giant art piece.
Pet of the Week
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Stumbling upon my “Happy Place”
Everyone has their “happy place”- the place where you journey to in your mind (or go to) when you want to escape your normal day to day. For a few it is a childhood memory, for some a vacation destination where memories have been made, and for others a simple spot where you can visit effortlessly. It is a subjective […]
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Grand Marais Harbor is home to a variety of fish, beavers, and the always playful otters, two of which Paul Sundberg came across, recently.
Senior Legion Cook County/ Silver Bay falls to Proctor
Proctor took a 2-0 lead after the first inning and proceeded to put seven more points on the board in the next two innings to race off to a 9-0 lead against the Senior Legion Cook County/Silver Bay Vikings in a Division ll District 8 playoff game held Saturday, July 17 in Ely. The Vikings managed one run in the […]
Junior Legion Cook County/ Silver Bay come on strong at the end to take a victory over Ely
The Cook County/Silver Bay Junior Legion baseball team used a last inning barrage of runs to defeat the Junior Legion team from Ely in a home game played Friday, July 16. Knotted at 2-2, the Vikings scored four runs in the fifth and final inning to win 6-2. Ely took a 1-0 lead in the first inning. Neither team scored […]
Drought, doubt, a time of self-reflection
The rains have not come. I count nine or ten months since we’ve been at normal water levels. Or longer. I wish they’d come. A pious man might pray for them, another might do a dance, a third might’ve offered a sacrifice. The Flute Reed River is now just a silent brook, a dry drainage, of stagnant shallow pools and […]
Choose a better perspective
Have you ever had a day when you felt overwhelmed by everything? Too much on the to-do list? Drained by lack of self-care? If you say no, I feel you are either a saint or a fibber as I’m not one to call anyone a liar. We recently had a month-long remodel project in our home, and I just couldn’t […]
The Lettuce Caper
As I checked out my garden several days ago, I noted that both raised beds had successes and failures. The first carrot planting had been a failure, but a second planting was working. The wax beans were flourishing and looked great. Cucumbers also thrived, but the zucchini looked weak. Thank goodness for the lettuce, I told myself and made my […]
Death investigation underway in Cook County
With assistance from several additional agencies, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) is investigating the death of a man whose remains were located in Lake Superior off the shore of Grand Portage in Cook County. The Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office has identified the deceased as Richard Anthony Balsimo, 34, of St. Paul. The medical examiner said Mr. Balsimo died […]