Should the county consider purchasing/leasing electric vehicles?

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How many of you have researched or watched any videos on electric vehicles? Has anyone read Resolution #2022-18 that the county board approved, dealing with climate change? One of the be-it-resolved statements says we will implement best practices relating to the purchase or lease of an electric fleet of vehicles. Let’s believe we (they) are thinking down the road— say […]

Ruby’s Pantry West End!

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Thank you to Zoar Lutheran Church for sponsorship, Tofte Township for the use of the Birch Grove Center, and extra storage space, the Birch Grove Community School Board, Director, and Staff for their support! Thank you to Empty Bowls for $5000.00, Ruby’s Pantry Grand Marais for $500.00, We Connect, Inc for $1000.00, Grand Marais State Bank for 7 carts totaling […]

Lodging Tax

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Dear Cook County Residents, As a business owner of Bear Track Outfitting Co., Bally Creek Cabins, and Fishin’Chics Charter Service, for the past 50 years, I would state that the 3% lodging tax and the 1% Visit Cook County tax has run its course. In reading the article in the North Shore Journal dated April, 2022 written by Steve Fernlund, […]

GoFundMe Rainbow Trout needs a car

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I first met Rainbow many years ago when we both volunteered to help the Superior Hiking Trail build a new bridge across Durfee Creek. For many years after that we teamed together to maintain two sections of the Trail, from Pincushion Overlook to Woods Creek on County 58 and from the East end of the Lakewalk to Judge Magney State […]

String trio to perform at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts

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The North Shore Music Association is thrilled to kick off our 2022 spring and summer lineup with the stellar string trio of Brittany Haas, Brittany Karlson, and Joe K. Walsh, “a modern string band—from bluegrass to oldtime, with many stops along the way.” Please join us at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts for a May 28 7 p.m. concert […]

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Correction:

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An incorrect phone number was listed for Grand Portage Health and Human Services in the Cook County Communications article last week. The correct telephone number is 218-475-2235. The Cook County News-Herald regrets the error.

Joan Taylor Costello

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Joan Taylor Costello, 94, of Bellingham, Washington died on March 23, 2022, in her home. She was born on May 24, 1927, in Chicago, Illinois to Herbert and Eloise (Latta) Taylor. Her family moved to Sacramento, CA where she graduated from Sacramento Community College before relocating to Crystal Lake, Illinois where she married John E. Costello on November 25, 1950. […]

Judy Ann Backlund

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Judy Ann Backlund passed away April 3, 2022, in Ontario, California with her partner Dennis by her side. Judy had suffered multiple battles with cancer over 42 years and fought valiantly through each cancer as she loved life, but her body become exhausted, and she couldn’t do it anymore. Judy was born in Grand Marais, Minnesota on August 6, 1949, […]

Jeanne Juettner Robinson

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Jeanne Juettner Robinson, 92, passed away peacefully on March 16, 2022, at her home of 59 years in Minneapolis. A seasonal resident of Grand Marais, she and husband Charles owned a home near Croftville. Member of the Grand Marais PEO chapter. Graduate of Roosevelt High School & Macalester College. Member of Mayflower Church for over 65 years. Her career began […]