Great turnout for the 2022 Grand Portage Pow Wow
Would people show up? You bet they did, and the weather was perfect! After a two-year hiatus due to the covid outbreak, the Grand Portage Rendezvous Days and Celebration Pow Wow drew big crowds throughout the three-day weekend. Events were free and there was more to see than one could take in, in half a day unless you rushed. Highlighting […]
U of M study shows that even modest changes in the climate could pose major changes for forests in the Great Lakes region
Forests in the 21st century could look very different than the forests we now have in northern Minnesota. That’s the news from a story recently published in Nature. In the coming years warming temperatures alone could cause nine northern conifers in Minnesota’s Northwoods and southern boreal forest running from eastern Canada to Alaska to be replaced by oaks and maples, […]
An interview with I.S.D. 166 Superintendent Chris Lindholm
With the start of school just around the corner some questions were posed to I.S.D. 166 school superintendent Chris Lindholm about the upcoming year. Chris, who was pinch hitting in the kitchen this week, took some time to answer the following questions. Q- Have you been able to hire enough staff? Teachers, bus drivers, maintenance workers, cooks, paras, subs, etc.? […]
Election Updates
The first half of the 2022 election season came to an end with the state primary held on August 9. Turnout was a little lower than usual for a primary election. Statewide, the turnout of eligible voters was 18 percent. In Cook County the turnout of eligible voters was 36 percent. Our turnout of registered voters was a little over […]
Free Health Care Fraud, Waste & Abuse Prevention online class offered Wednesday, September 14, 2022
The Senior LinkAge Line® will offer two Health Care Fraud, Waste & Abuse Prevention classes Wednesday, September 14, 2022, from 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. and again from 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Attendees will learn how to detect and report potential errors, fraud and abuse; review potential fraud and scams targeting older adults, how to read their Medicare Summary Notice, learn […]
Rescued rabbit
Within 10 hours of sighting a misplaced domestic rabbit, recovery was made by its family. “Thanks!” is expressed to Grand Marais and Cook County media, Sheriff Pat Eliason’s team was ready in a “lost and found” role. Doug Sanders, Grand Marais
Kudos to election judges
I would like to publicly thank all of the Election Workers who are helping with this year’s elections. You are our friends and relatives, our neighbors and co-workers, who undergo the required training and then get up early and/or stay up late into the wee hours on election day to make sure that our votes are gathered, tallied, and reported […]
Trump derangement syndrome goes on and on
It seems the liberal elites are after Donald Trump once again. This time it’s the Department of Justice teaming up with the FBI to raid Trump’s private home, Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. While the Trumps weren’t home at the time, it still required 30 armed agents to storm and ransack the place. Whatever happened to “a man’s home is […]
TRUTH MATTERS
If you just landed in the 8th Congressional District of Minnesota from another planet without knowledge of history or current events and read Pete Stauber’s A Week in the Great 8 email publication, you would be led to believe that in less than 2 years, the Biden Administration has created and is responsible for all the bad things that have […]