The Minnesota Department of Health has released a report that lists where Cook County residents received hospital inpatient care in 2006. According to Cook County North Shore Hospital Administrator Diane Pearson, hospital statistics can be difficult to find because competing hospitals often do not want to release information that could benefit their competitors. According to the Department of Health, Minnesota... READ MORE >
The total population of Cook County in 2008 was 5,437, according to Minnesota State Demographic Center statistics released July 15, 2009. The county contains 57 group quarters (all in Grand Marais) and 2,578 households, with an average of 2.09 people per household. Populations by area are as follows: Grand Marais, 1,418; Lutsen Township, 420; Tofte Township, 254; Schroeder Township, 191;... READ MORE >
“The Great Community-Family Get- Together” is what the Cook County Fair Board intends this year’s event to be. After a busy summer hosting tourists, community members can gather like a family to visit and enjoy a little down time Friday and Saturday, August 21 and 22, 2009, according to public relations chair Sharon Hendrickson. In old-fashioned county fair style, exhibits... READ MORE >
Approximately 40 people gathered in the Grand Marais tourist park recreation hall Tuesday, July 28, 2009 to hear the park board’s presentation of its long-term Master Plan and to offer some last-minute feedback with the hope of changing that plan. Board chair Lindsay Mielke opened the meeting with an explanation of why consultant Bob Bruce was not there. “We have... READ MORE >
Even though President Obama’s term may still seem new and Senator Franken has just recently started his job, the race for the next governor of Minnesota is already heating up. Gubernatorial DFL candidate Matt Entenza spent time in Cook County Friday, July 24, 2009 getting to know people and sharing his vision. Entenza and his long-time friend Julie Munger of... READ MORE >
Amidst a bidding war, the ISD 166 school board voted Tuesday, July 28, 2009 to sell its bus garage at the Birch Grove Community Center. The unheated, uninsulated garage had been on the market for $37,000 and had three offers, two of them over the asking price, according to listing real estate agent Terry Backlund. It was sold for $38,200... READ MORE >
A rise in the price of oil may have contributed to a Cook County Highway Department resurfacing bid coming in $484,952.10 over Highway Engineer Shae Kosmalski’s estimate, according to county engineering technician Bill Parish. He obtained approval from the county board Tuesday, July 28, 2009 to award the bid to Ulland Brothers Inc., the lowest bidder. This federal project, funded... READ MORE >
With only three months until the community will be offered the opportunity to pass a 1% sales tax referendum that could fund up to $20 million in community improvements, the committee of elected officials designing the referendum is still trying to decide what improvements to include. The county board and representatives from the Grand Marais City Council, the ISD 166... READ MORE >
Over 30 people from Duluth, the Iron Range, Ely, Silver Bay, and Cook County gathered at the Community Center Monday, July 20, 2009 to talk about renewable energy projects that have been popping up throughout Cook County. Because this community has been pursuing alternative forms of energy so energetically, Bill Mittlefehldt, coordinator of Minnesota’s Northeast Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTs),... READ MORE >
After signing off on the Lutsen Tofte Tourism Association’s (LTTA’s) request to pay off golf course bonds so it would no longer have to keep significant amounts of lodging tax income on hold in county coffers, the Tofte town board voted Thursday, July 9, 2009 to collect the tax itself and then disperse it to the LTTA. The county will... READ MORE >
