Grand Marais Public Library is pleased to announce it has once again achieved 5-star ranking in the annual Library Journal Star Libraries standings. Baudette Public Library and Ely Public Library both earned 5-star designations this year, and Two Harbors Public Library earned 4-star status giving Arrowhead Library System 4 of the 5 libraries in Minnesota to achieve this benchmark. Grand […]
Canada re-starts PCR tests for those who wish to cross the border
Here we go again. Just when business was starting to pick up on the border towns, Canada decided to go ahead and once again mandate that non-essential travelers crossing the land borders to the U.S. must take a PCR test to regain re-entry back into Canada. And while this measure is hard on business, it’s harder on families who are […]
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A “giving” tree sits in the lobby of Arrowhead Cooperative in Lutsen. Placed on the tree are stocking hats, winter gloves, scarves and mittens, with some warm winter clothing in boxes and bags at the base of the tree. These donated items will be gifts to others less fortunate as part of Operation Family Christmas.
Grand Portage receives County Road 89 from Cook County
During a special meeting, Cook County Commissioners formally handed off County Road 89 to Old Highway 61 to the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa on Wednesday, December 15. The exchange was made at 9:45 a.m. in the RTC building in Grand Portage between Cook County Commissioner Board Chair David Mills and Grand Portage Reservation Tribal Council (RTC) Chair […]
Covid Christmas
If you’d been told, if I’d been told, that we’d be having another Covid Christmas this year— would we have believed it? I wonder, as we celebrate Christmas–The Feast of the Incarnation–how the meaning of incarnation has changed for us during this time of pandemic. Incarnation—from the Latin “carne”–meat as in chili con carne—means God’s entry into our world in […]
Christmas Eve and Christmas services at Trinity Lutheran
…Share in the Joy of Christ in our midst… Join us to sing Christmas carols, and hear again the Glory of the Christmas Story Friday at 7 p.m. Christmas Eve Candlelight Worship We all share the desire to cease covid-aimed requests–yet we also want to provide as much ease of mind as possible to those with young children and adults […]
Historical Reflections
This is an inside view of the former Johnson Trading Post. Photo courtesy of the Cook County Historical Society.
Down Memory Lane
20 YEARS AGODECEMBER 24, 2001 v With no snow, the question of how fast snowmobile riders can legally go on public roads is moot. However, that did not prevent a number of riders from attending a public hearing for a new snowmobile ordinance. Pressure from snowmobile enthusiasts carried the day as an ordinance to limit the machine speeds to 30 […]
Lodging, one percent, transportation tax report
The hospitality business in Cook County has been booming. Through September 1, the Lutsen, Tofte Tourism Association lodging taxes are up 35.9 percent over 2020. Collections are at $942,612.30 already and last year they finished at $932,960.73. The Grand Marais Area Tourism Association is up 40.3 percent through September. So far $340,776.23 has been taken in through September compared to […]