The Poplar River Management Board (PRMB) recently found out it did not get a $1,000,000 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant it had applied for, but it continues to forge ahead to apply for new grants. “There’s a tremendous amount of competition for a small amount of money,” said Tom Rider, board member and co-owner of Lutsen Mountains. Minnesota Pollution Control... READ MORE >
While Cook County North Shore Hospital and Care Center’s financial state is not very healthy so far this year, news from the auditor was somewhat heartening. The financials are “discouraging,” Controller Yvonne Gennrich reported to the hospital board Friday, May 21, 2010, with a 2010 loss of $550,000 so far. “We are only onethird of where we were last year... READ MORE >
The Sentence-to-Serve program is going to continue full swing despite the fact that the state will now fund only 25% of the cost instead of 50%. On Tuesday, May 18, 2010, the county board voted to approve an amendment to its twoyear cost-sharing contract with the state. The county’s share this year will be $56,991, 75% of the program’s cost,... READ MORE >
The warm Cook County spring was good news for Gunflint Hills Golf Course. May revenues were $5,444, up from $2,489 last May. By the first of June 2010 revenues were $44,546, up from $31,218 at the same time last year. The course itself was experiencing “July conditions,” Golf Course Manager Mike Kunshier told the Grand Marais Park Board on Tuesday,... READ MORE >
A June 4 reception for artists whose work will be featured this season at the Cross River Heritage Center in Schroeder brought 117 people together. Not only did they relish the smoked fish, crackers, cheese, and fellowship, they enjoyed tastes of local art and a special exhibit of Arnold Friberg paintings on loan from the Tweed Museum of Art in... READ MORE >
The 2010 Cook County High School 100th anniversary commencement involved a lot of standing ovations. There was one for Mable Stolz, believed to be the school’s oldest living graduate— Class of 1929. Mable was there, sitting in the front row, and when her name was called, she walked to the center of the gymnasium and waved at the crowds filling... READ MORE >
Don Wilson, commander of American Legion Post 413, does not think the rain garden installed outside the courthouse last summer is a suitable addition to the grounds upon which Cook County’s Veterans Memorial stands. He was not alone in his thinking about the new look of the courthouse lawn at the Memorial Day ceremony May 31. At the county board... READ MORE >
After significant efforts to recruit a replacement for retired septic inspector Leroy Halberg in the Cook County Planning & Zoning office, the search has been dropped, at least for the time being. At the Tuesday, June 8, 2010 county board meeting, Planning & Zoning Director Tim Nelson talked to commissioners about how Halberg’s duties have been distributed among existing staff.... READ MORE >
Two months into the collection of a 1% Cook County sales and use tax, county commissioners have started reporting on progress toward implementing several capital improvement projects earmarked for income from the tax. County Auditor-Treasurer Braidy Powers told the county board Tuesday, June 8, 2010 that about $37,000-38,000 was collected in April, the first month of the tax. The county... READ MORE >
The cost of saving Honeymoon Tower residents from the “light pollution” caused by a beacon flashing through their curtains every night, especially torturous during the long, leafless, reflective-snowy nights of winter, will be $10,000. The Honeymoon Tower will be getting new lights sometime in July at the same time some old equipment is removed. County commissioners may escape vilification over... READ MORE >
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