At 9:53 p.m. Saturday, October 10, 2009, Carl Foster called the Cook County Law Enforcement Center to report what appeared to be a large fire down the road from him on County Road 48. He called back again one minute later to say that it was a really big fire. Indeed it was. A glowing sky and smoke could be... READ MORE >
City Councilor Jan Sivertson, organizer of the 1% sales tax referendum campaign, and Jim Boyd, champion of the broadband Internet network that would be partly funded from the proposed tax, urged county commissioners Tuesday, October 13, 2009 to let the public know they support the tax. “Do you have a united front in support of the sales tax?” is the... READ MORE >
A committee has been drafting a new county subsurface sewage treatment system (septic) ordinance, and property owners around the county may have differing opinions on the requirements outlined in it. Cook County Planning & Zoning Director Tim Nelson asked the county board on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 for authorization to begin a public hearing process on the proposed ordinance. He... READ MORE >
“Boy did we have some wind last week,” Grand Marais Recreation Area Director Dave Tersteeg told the park board Tuesday, October 6, 2009. “The park almost blew off the shore.” The September 28 windstorm took down about a dozen trees in the campground but hit the Sweetheart’s Bluff trails especially hard. Rec park personnel have been clearing some of the... READ MORE >
The Cook County High School industrial arts department has seen better days. Over the years, it has lost space to other departments, and it is sorely lacking in some of the equipment and facilities needed to adequately introduce students to the trades. In a document outlining what he perceives to be the department’s needs, teacher Eli Hill stated, “I think... READ MORE >
Thebird is back. Description: Five feet tall, two feet wide at the hips, about an inch thick. White with a little gray on the wings. Yellow beak. Proud demeanor. Thanks to the savvy social skills of Pine County Deputy Daniel Kunz, the bird is back. Kunz has a way with prisoners, and that is what opened the case wide. Sometime... READ MORE >
A rain garden is more complex than some people might think it would be. On Thursday, October 1, 2009, Cook County Soil & Water Conservation Technician Tristan Beaster gave the Soil & Water board a tour of the new project south of the courthouse parking lot and explained how it works. A description of the tour said, “The rain garden... READ MORE >
At 5:00 p.m. on July 2, 2009, Eric Larsen of Grand Marais and fellow mountaineers Ryan Waters and Mark Sheen stood at the top of Mt. McKinley, otherwise known as Denali, 20,360 feet above sea level in the middle of Alaska. “It was a beautiful, gorgeous view,” he said in an audio Internet podcast the next day. For many adventurers,... READ MORE >
Cook County Tennis Association (CCTA) President Gene Glader welcomed about 70 people to a dedication of the new Cook County tennis courts on the west side of the high school Saturday, September 19, 2009. Over $250,000 has been raised toward the project over the last four years. “It’s been a great cooperation between a nonprofit and a government entity,” Glader... READ MORE >
On December 10, 1976, young Beaver Bay fisherman Clint Maxwell did not know the wind would be switching that day. It would have been better for him if he had known, but then again, maybe it was better in the end that he didn’t. After a fisherman’s dinner of fishcakes, boiled vegetables, bread, and butter at the Tofte Fishing Museum... READ MORE >
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