The Minnesota State Patrol reported that on July 25, 2013, Pirjo Biloski, 61, of Thunder Bay passed away from complications from the injuries she received from a motorcycle crash the month before. The accident took place just after noon of June 13 on the straight stretch of Highway 61 between Cascade River State Park and Spruce Creek. Biloski had been... READ MORE >
“All the road restrictions are finally lifted,” Cook County Highway Maintenance Supervisor Russell Klegstad told the county board on August 13, 2013. “It’s almost time to close them again!” Highway Engineer David Betts said he was trying to decide whether winter had started again or if it had never ended, but then he said he thought we had summer a... READ MORE >
Thirty-six people have applied for Cook County’s new county administrator position. “I was tickled pink,” Consultant David Unmacht of Springstead Group told the county board on August 13, 2013. Unmacht said he knows 11 of the applicants. Another 10 live in Minnesota and the rest are from across the Midwest and beyond. At first glance, Unmacht said, he could see... READ MORE >
A budget request from U.S. Customs and Border Protection to conduct a study on charging vehicles and pedestrians a fee to cross the border into the U.S. has been getting some opposition in Congress. On July 24, 2013, U.S. Congressman Rick Nolan responded to a letter Cook County Board Chair Jan Hall had written on behalf of the county board... READ MORE >
Sheriff Mark Falk presented his 2014 budget requests to the county board on August 13, 2013, and they reflect some increases in activity at the Cook County Law Enforcement Center. The sheriff ’s budget includes several different departments—sheriff, county jail, Search & Rescue, coroner, dispatch, radio communications, and emergency management. Sheriff Falk actually anticipated a decrease in his Sheriff ’s... READ MORE >
Watch what kinds of plastics you bring to the Cook County Recycling Center – Cook County has stopped accepting mixed plastics after its plastic recyclables broker stopped accepting mixed plastics about a month ago. Several large bundles of mixed plastics are sitting outside the Recycling Center waiting for a place to go. Cook County Planning & Zoning Director Tim Nelson,... READ MORE >
Gary Overmeier, senior project manager with the Great Lakes Commission (GLC), traveled from Ann Arbor, Michigan to take a tour of the work being done to reduce sediment in the Poplar River. His visit on August 6, 2013 was the first in a series of four visits to places that received U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Great Lakes Restoration Initiative... READ MORE >
It’s impossible to say who came the farthest for Fisherman’s Picnic this year, but a safe bet would be Pradeep Sugathadasa, who came all the way from Sri Lanka for his Cook County High School Class of 1983 30-year reunion. Sri Lanka is a large island off the coast of India. Pradeep lived with Dick and Bonnie Swanson as a... READ MORE >
Within a span of nine months and between the hours of roughly 8 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., the Cook County Schools health service office receives about 5,000 visits from students. That’s over 30 visits a day. The students’ problems range from minor illness and injury to chronic health problems needing daily monitoring and medication and occasionally, more severe injuries. On... READ MORE >
Elected officials have a role to play when community emergencies arise. Cook County Emergency Management Director Jim Wiinanen helped some of the elected officials in Cook County understand what that role is at a training at the courthouse on July 23, 2013. At the meeting were several county commissioners and several Grand Portage officials and employees. The training was spawned... READ MORE >
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