Grand Portage Pow Wow and Rendezvous Days start August 12
The Grand Portage Rendezvous Days and Pow Wow will be held on August 12, 13, and 14, with events kicking off on Friday, the 12th, at 10 a.m. at the Great Hall at the National Monument, which will feature the Stone Bridge Singers. The annual Grand Portage Pow Wow, sponsored by the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (Ojibwe), […]
Park revenues up
Grand Marais Parks and Recreation Director David Tersteeg reports that revenues through the end of July are “trending up” and are $13,000 (1.5 percent) over 2021. Tersteeg presented the financial information to the Grand Marais Park Board at the board’s Tuesday, August 2 meeting. Work is going well and on time at the Parkside Public Access project, noted Tersteeg. He […]
Filing period now open for school and hospital board positions
COOK COUNTY – The next candidate filing period for the fall elections started Tuesday, August 2, and runs through August 16. This round of filings is for three seats on the district 166 school board and three seats on the hospital board. The positions are for four-year terms. North Shore Health North Shore Health is a county owned hospital governed […]
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Currently the county has jobs that can’t be filled because perspective employees can’t find housing. It’s a vexing problem, a conundrum to be sure. Kaomi Lee, a Twin Cities reporter for the PBS Almanac TV program and Mike Phillips, videographer, were in Grand Marais this week to film a show about the county’s lack of affordable housing and what steps […]
Payment in Lieu of Taxes
Payments in lieu of taxes, or PILT, is funding that local governments receive from the federal and/or state government for public lands within the local jurisdiction. Privately owned land is taxed by the county, and tax revenues go to pay for local services. The county cannot collect taxes on publicly owned land, so the U.S. government and State of Minnesota […]
Thankful for the staff at the YMCA
The dedicated and tireless management team at the Cook County YMCA deserve a big round of applause for doing a remarkable job in keeping “The Y” up and running over the past several months. Coping with the many pandemic-caused disruptions and difficulties — including full and partial closures; staff shortages; absences and turnover; having to adjust and re-adjust programming and […]
Beware of fascism
It seems as though the extremist wing of the supreme court is likely to double on their religious fascism. They have already signaled they are willing to discount all precedent, all religious or secular freedoms no matter how popular, if they do not align with their regressive, cruel and uncaring vision for this country. Theirs is not The Land of […]
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Three Minnesota Republican candidates visited CC GOP members at the ‘HUB’ during a ‘Meet ‘n Greet’ on July 16th. Andrea Zupancich, Mayor of Babbit, is vying for the MN District 3 Senate seat vacated by the retiring Tom Bakk, who encouraged her to run. Roger Skraba, Mayor of Ely, is vying for MN District 3A, and has also long been […]