Pet of the Week celebrates pets, past and present. Please share some of your favorite photos with all of us. If you bring a photo to the newspaper office, we can create a quality digital image with the scanner and give the photo right back to you. If you mail a photo to the newspaper office, we are careful to […]
Ali Duclos debuts as a professional log roller, boom runner
Allie Duclos has left the amateur ranks and is now log-rolling and, boomrunning professionally against the top women in North America. Duclos, 17, made her professional women’s log rolling debut at the Lumberjack Games – Splash n’ Dash in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. It was an excellent way for her to dip her toes into the professional world. Allie had a first […]
Grand Marais Garden Club Invites You to Our Annual Flower Show!
Each summer, the members of the Grand Marais Garden Club come together around a theme to create a floral display for our community members and area visitors to enjoy. This year’s theme is “Garden Treasures”, and we can’t wait to show off gems from our gardens! We invite you to join us for the show on Saturday, July 22nd from […]
Voyageurs National Park’s Wildlife Biologist Steve Windels recipient of 2023 distinguished Moose Biologist Award
National Park Service Wildlife Biologist Dr. Steve Windels was recently honored with the 2023 Distinguished Moose Biologist Award at the 55th North American Moose Conference and Workshop held May 22-26, 2023, in Grand Portage, Minnesota. The Distinguished Moose Biologist Award was established to honor “the outstanding contribution of an individual to the understanding and management of moose” in North America […]
Bubbles, bubbles everywhere!
Grand Marais Public Library’s Summer Reading Program continues to inspire young readers ‘find their voice’ this month with a live performance of Bubble Wonders, an uplifting show, full of surprises, using bubbles to encourage participants to follow their dreams. Geoff Akins combines incredible bubble-wizardry with whimsical words of wisdom and will leave the audience feeling like anything truly is possible. […]
Portage and paddle into the wilderness
For Tim O’Brien, and for the men – young once – of the Air Cavalry. At the bow one paddled an old, old paddle. Long, thick and wide. He portaged it with the bulky camouflage lifevest slung through the shoulders while he humped a Duluth pack over 50 pounds. In the Duluth pack he carried a hammock system of a […]
In A blink
For those you who follow me on Facebook you know that recently our family faced a terrible car accident where my nephew Tanner and his 7-year-old little boy Brody were seriously injured. It happened in a blink. They were on the way to a baseball game and Brody dropped his bat while riding in the back seat. He took off […]
Cleave ever…
Nope, it’s not about cleavers. Read on. I’ve always been known as a Pollyanna, accused of seeing the world through rose-colored glasses. “Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt,” a quote by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, hangs above my computer and rests at the bottom of my emails. But you know what? It isn’t always that easy. Sometimes I have […]
Are we there yet?
For some, a summer tradition means all-whites and strawberries and cream at Wimbledon. For others, it’s the array of colorful wildflowers decorating the natural landscape. And yet for others, the summer tradition is a Road Trip. From Homer’s “The Odyssey” to Kerouac’s “On the Road” the road trip has been of considerable interest. Yes, it’s ironic that Odysseus ended up […]
Great weather, great art makes for a great Grand Marais Arts Festival
The 32nd annual Grand Marais Arts Festival attracted large crowds over two days as visitors came from across the region to view and purchase works of art from 60 juried artists. This year the event moved back downtown from the High School parking lot where it had been held the last two years. Artists’ booths were set up between Broadway […]