On Tuesday, May 18, 2010, the county board passed a motion accepting a $120,000 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (stimulus) grant to reduce understory fuels on 150 acres of private property around Tait Lake. According to a document written by Patty Johnson of the U.S. Forest Service, who applied for the grant on behalf of the Tait Lake Homeowners’ Association,... READ MORE >
Should the county allow a resort to keep a boat at a public landing for occasional use by its guests? Cook County commissioners wrestled with this question posed by County Assessor Mary Black on Tuesday, May 18, 2010. It came up when a cabin owner complained about noise at Leo Lake landing that they attributed to people using boats left... READ MORE >
The Cook County High School Athletic Booster Club contributed $16,750.25 to ISD 166 for school sports this year. “I’m certainly impressed with all the hard work they’ve done,” said board chair Bill Huggins at a May 19, 2010 school board meeting. The board passed a motion thanking the booster club for its contributions. When asked about whether the club knows... READ MORE >
After some of Tofte’s Fourth of July fireworks blew up in the town park last year, the Independence Day fireworks will never be quite the same. Tofte supervisor Paul James reported at the Thursday, May 13, 2010 township meeting that he and others would be meeting with representatives of Arrowhead Fireworks, a professional fireworks company, the following week to create... READ MORE >
This is a banner year for the Boy Scouts of America as it celebrates its 100th anniversary. That makes it an especially memorable year to earn Boy Scouting’s highest rank–that of an Eagle Scout–and one young man in Cook County has done just that. In an April 24, 2010, Court of Awards ceremony at St. John’s Catholic Church in Grand... READ MORE >
County Commissioner Jan Hall expressed a concern to her fellow county board members Tuesday, May 18, 2010, that was not necessarily in the purview of county government. She said she has been receiving calls from constituents who are concerned about bullying in the ISD166 school district. The problem has escalated into kids not wanting to go to school and getting... READ MORE >
A hiring committee comprised of County Commissioners Bruce Martinson and Jan Hall, Engineering Technician Bill Parish, Maintenance Supervisor Russell Klegstad, and Personnel Director Janet Simonen agreed unanimously to offer to a licensed engineer named David Betts the county highway engineer/ agricultural inspector job recently vacated by Shae Kosmalski. Four candidates were interviewed out of a field of eight applicants. Personnel... READ MORE >
Madeline McCormick and her little brother Finn were about an hour and a half into their Gunflint Green Up workday Saturday, May 8, 2010. They were busy releasing trees along the Kekekabic Trail from the threat of being crowded out by faster-growing species around them. The snow that had fallen the night before was starting to melt. It was 10:45... READ MORE >
The amount of funding that Cook County Schools will receive from the State of Minnesota for the 2010-11 school year is a big unknown. The school board tried to work on its budget anyway in a special meeting Wednesday, May 5. Superintendent Beth Schwarz told the school board that the Minnesota Supreme Court had just that day ruled against Governor... READ MORE >
Two Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) representatives and one Arrowhead Regional Development Commission (ARDC) representative met with county commissioners Tuesday, May 11, 2010 to let them know the types of projects that will be undertaken on state roads over the next nine years. A big project for this summer may make trips to Cook County a little harder for tourists.... READ MORE >
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