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On a recent cold clear night, the Milky Way spilled and splashed across a star speckled sky over a still silent Lake Superior.
Coffee Talkers comes to Cook County
Coffee talk is a commitment free, drop-in chat line when a friendly voice is needed the most. It is now expanding to Cook County! As we age, leave jobs, kids move away, spouses die, health deteriorates, we often become isolated, lonely. But there is hope. Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly MN is a volunteer led organization committed to […]
Second COVID-19 Booster shot event scheduled at Community Center for those 50+ or immunocompromised
Cook County Public Health (PHHS) and Sawtooth Mountain Clinic (SMC) announce that they will make the second mRNA COVID-19 booster vaccine available to eligible candidates starting on April 14, 2022, at the Cook County Community Center. Both the CDC and FDA made recommendations this week that allow a select group of individuals to receive a second mRNA COVID-19 booster vaccine, […]
Engelking selected 2022 MASA Region 7 administrators award
Former Cook County High School Principal John Engelking was selected as the 2022 Minnesota Association of School Administrators (MASA) Region 7 Administrator of Excellence award. John has been the Proctor public school’s superintendent for the last 12 years. Engelking officially retired on September 14, 2021 but has stayed at Procter as an interim superintendent while school board has sought to […]
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This Common Redpoll was sitting on a snowy, lichen covered branch, and it made for a pretty winter scene. The Redpolls will probably be with us until the early part of April before they head north to their nesting grounds, so we are enjoying their presence until then—Jean.
2021 lodging tax report
Tourism remained strong in 2021, with Cook County experiencing an increase of 23.3 percent in its lodging tax over 2020. Lutsen-Tofte Tourism Association was exceptionally robust, taking in $1,186,324.14 in 2020 compared to $932,960.73 in 2020, or an increase of 23.3 percent when compared apples-to-apples. The Grand Marais Tourism Association saw an increase of 36.4 percent in 2021, bringing in […]
2022 Cook County Property Assessments
We wanted to reach out as most Cook County Property Owners have been receiving their 2022 Property Tax Statements. Please don’t confuse this with the 2022 Valuation Notice (for taxes in 2023), which will be arriving in mailboxes in the coming weeks of April. The Tax Statement and Value Notice were not mailed together in 2022, as they have been […]
Green energy is cheaper in the long run
Thank you, Terry Speicer, for not being rude, now if only you could avoid being inaccurate. To a degree you are correct, solar is not the most efficient form of producing energy, but efficiency is not the problem, capacity is a bigger problem. Solar can convert about 20 percent of the input to a useful output, about the same ratio […]
Minnesota’s Energy Assistance crisis benefit increases to $3,000 per household to help pay utility bills
Energy Assistance funding is available for thousands more Minnesotans to apply permalink mn.gov/commerce/media/news The Minnesota Department of Commerce has raised the Minnesota Energy Assistance Program crisis benefit per household. As a result, income-qualified homeowners or renters can now receive up to $3,000 to pay past-due energy bills, prevent energy disconnections, and cover emergency fuel deliveries costs. The crisis benefit had […]