Although there is still plenty of snow on the ground plans to open the Grand Marais Rec Park for May are coming into focus. Members of the Grand Marais Park and Recreation Boar met on Tuesday, April 5 to discuss those plans. On Aril 1st reservations opened for October, the last month to make reservations for the Rec Park and... READ MORE >
The forest fires that burned through the area last summer destroyed a lot of trees, but not all of that lumber need go wasted. The U.S. Forest Service issued a contract to have red and white pine thinned from the burnt over area above Finland, Minnesota, and Hedstrom Lumber Company got the bid, hiring logger Greg Tibbetts to cut the... READ MORE >
This past Monday, a large contingent of middle and long-distance high school and junior high school runners were out training for the upcoming high school track season as snowflakes fell. Despite the less-than-perfect conditions, the kids were (mostly) smiling and enjoying the run. They are, after all, Viking tough. This spring, Viking Head Track and Field Coach April Wahlstrom greeted... READ MORE >
“Our objective is to create a film that will pay homage to the Polar Inuit, humble people that carve out special lives in a land of snow and ice. Their innovation through trial and error and their creative ways of improvising have always amazed me.” Lonnie Dupre. It’s been two decades since Lonnie Dupre and fellow explorer John Hoelscher completed... READ MORE >
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) 2022 annual Aerial Moose survey results are in and what it shows is that for the 11th straight year, there is little change in the moose population. According to the report, there are 4,700 moose in northeastern Minnesota, the highest moose estimate since 2011. Still, that’s statistically unchanged from the previous 11 years.... READ MORE >
Residents of Cook County lost their power at about 9:30 p.m. on Friday, March 25, as a windstorm battered the county, with winds recorded as high as 66 mph. The power was restored to the City of Grand Marais around 2:30 a.m. “Great River Energy had a tree hit the line and the entire county went dark,” said Arrowhead Cooperative... READ MORE >
The U.S. Postal Service will release a batch of new postage stamps featuring the artwork of the late Grand Portage artist George Morrison on April 22. In the press release it stated George Morrison was, “One of the nation’s greatest modernist artists and a founding figure of Native American modernism. George Morrison (1919-2000) challenged prevailing ideas of what Native American... READ MORE >
I have been thinking about snowflakes lately. Delicate. Light. Ethereal. Beautiful. Yet, when clumped together, formed into a tight, hard snowball, or pushed into my driveway by a large, orange rasping grader, they are brawny and bullying. Mexican artist Frida Kahlo suffered from polio, withering one of her legs when she was a child. Because she was limited physically, she... READ MORE >
Incumbent Republican Congressman Pete Stauber of Hermantown is being challenged by two Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidates. Jennifer Schultz DFLDuluth, who is State House District 7A Rep. has announced that she is not running for a fifth term in the Minnesota legislature and will instead run against Stauber. Ernest Joseph Opprgaard lll, of Bemidji, originally was running as a 7th Congressional District candidate... READ MORE >
Viking senior forward Rhonnie Poyirier capped off a great season on the basketball court by being named to the all-conference second team. Poyirier was the team’s only player named all-conference. The all-conference team selections are voted on by the conference coaches who see all of the kids play. Rhonnie was a double double machine, leading the 2021-2022 Vikings in scoring... READ MORE >
