On Wednesday, January 30 Minnesota Power, a division of ALLETE, announced its intention to close one of the three coal-fired units at its Taconite Harbor Energy Center in Schroeder. As of press time it wasn’t known how many—if any— employees would be terminated or reassigned to other power plants owned by Minnesota Power. But according to a press release, ALLETE... READ MORE >
At the Tofte Township January 10 meeting supervisors prepared for the New Year by looking back and updating projects begun, but not completed, in the last year. One main topic was the ongoing search for government money and a developer/ owner for the construction of senior housing in Tofte. This was discussed at some length in a conference call with... READ MORE >
Busy as ever, the Viking girls’ basketball team played three games since last Friday, winning two out of three. Early in the second half of the game against Northeast Range on Thursday, January 24, Head Coach Todd Toulouse had seen enough of the bad calls out on the court by the referees and threw his hands up in despair and... READ MORE >
The Vikings played Northeast Range on Thursday, January 24, Carlton the next night, Silver Bay on Monday, January 28 and then faced Mesabi East on Tuesday to complete a busy six-day stretch of basketball that took their record to 10-5 for the season. Following the Viking girls’ game, Colin Everson looked like he was ready to take on Northeast Range... READ MORE >
As he waited at his base camp at 7,200 feet to fly off the mountain, one could hear the resignation in the voice of Lonnie Dupre who had been beaten a third straight time by the weather in his attempts to climb Mount Denali in January, the coldest, darkest month of the year. Deep snow plagued the adventurer the whole... READ MORE >
Hospital board members listened to a dizzy array of numbers and ever changing regulations pertaining to the services offered and operating costs needed to run the Cook County North Shore Hospital and Care Center (CCNSCC) at the January 17 board meeting. At the end of the meeting the board passed a resolution to move ahead to seek information on the... READ MORE >
The Cook County Ridge Riders snowmobile club is hosting its 4th annual Fun Run on Saturday, February 2 and hopes to have as big—or bigger— turnout then they had last year. “Last year we raised close to $6,000 and had 150 riders,” said one of the Fun Run organizers, Andrea Everson. Registration is between 9:30 a.m.-noon at Devil Track Landing... READ MORE >
It was a tough weekend of basketball for the Viking boys’ basketball team as they dropped a hard-fought contest 57-47 to the Polar League’s first place team, the Moose Lake/ Willow River Warriors, at home on Friday, January 18, and then the next day traveled to Ely to face the 10-1 Lumberjacks and lost 47-31. Against Moose Lake the Vikings... READ MORE >
Four games in six days were too much for the girls’ varsity basketball team. On Monday, January 15 they traveled to Cherry and lost 61-46 in overtime. The next day the players boarded another bus and went to Cromwell and lost by 5 points to a team they had beaten earlier. On Friday they squared off against the Moose Lake/... READ MORE >
As he makes his way to the 20,320-foot summit of Mount Denali, North America’s highest point, Grand Marais explorer/adventurer Lonnie Dupre was hoping the deep snow that plagued him early in his journey would end at about 11,000 feet. But so far, it’s been slow going as he has had to battle deeper snow then usual. On Sunday, January 20,... READ MORE >
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