Grand Marais PUC considers raising electric rates
Grand Marais Administrator Mike Roth informed the Public Utility Board (PUC) that the city’s electrical generation provider Southern Minnesota Municipal Power Agency (SMMPA), had raised the city’s 2023 rate by 15 percent, a hike of about $180,000 over the current rates. Roth suggested that the board raise the rates by 3 percent over 2022 for customers to combat that increase. […]
Linda Jurek Presented with Roger Toussaint Award
Visit Cook County Executive Director Linda Jurek was awarded the Roger Toussaint Award Oct. 4 at the annual meeting of the Minnesota Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus (MACVB). The award recognizes individuals who have been actively engaged and participatory in MACVB membership and its ongoing efforts to increase tourism throughout the state, as well as those who have willingly […]
North Shore Health Responds to Community Concerns
GRAND MARAIS, MN, October 11, 2022 — North Shore Health (NSH) would like to publicly address certain conversations that have recently been circulating on local social media and radio. In August, WTIP posted to the station’s Facebook page an interview that on-air personality Joe Friedrichs conducted with Kimber Wraalstad, NSH CEO Administrator. The topic was about the staffing shortage at […]
Homecoming King and Queen
Congratulations to Cook County High School Homecoming King Ryan Christiansen and Queen MaKenzie Fairbanks!
Cook County Capital Improvement plan update
Over the last several months, the County has been working to update its Capital Improvement Plan (CIP), the document that will guide future investments in County facilities. Why have a CIP? There are two key reasons: it’s a tool that can help us reduce long-term costs associated with building operations and maintenance, and it creates predictability in budgeting for and […]
Let’s not miss this opportunity!
With the risk of just copying someone else’s work, I don’t think I could find a better piece in support of Jen Schultz for 8th Congressional District congress person to the U.S. House of Representatives than the powerful endorsement by Forum Communications, owner of 7 different news publications across the district including the Duluth News Tribune. It reads: “For 8 […]
Don’t vote for an election denier
It seems to me that any candidate for public office who promotes or refuses to denounce Trump’s wicked lie that the 2020 election was stolen, should be automatically disqualified. Ill-informed members of the public who have been relentlessly pummeled by the dissembling chorus of election deniers may perhaps be forgiven for falling for Trump’s lie. But those running for office […]
Letter to the Editor,
No easy answers for the problems faced by North Shore Health, but a quick fix isn’t one of them I am writing with the desire to give another perspective on the recent social media posts and WTIP article related to staffing challenges at North Shore Health. I grew up in Cook County, and after high school graduation, I earned a […]