Marion McKeever will serve up her delicious fishcakes to benefit the Birch Grove Foundation at Satellite’s Restaurant in Schroeder on Tuesday, June 14 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tickets are available at Grand Marais State Bank in Tofte, Satellite’s Restaurant, Birch Grove and at the door. Adults’ meals are $13.95 and kids eat... READ MORE >
The Cook County Ministerium will host the annual Baccalaureate Service at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts on Thursday, June 2 at 7 p.m. The theme of the 2011 service is Go and Do Likewise. Pastor Deborah Lunde of Zoar Lutheran Church will give the message and Pastor Mark Ditmanson of Bethlehem Lutheran Church will bless the graduates. Cook County... READ MORE >
Cook County Higher Education, in cooperation with Great Decisions, will present Dr. Ahmed Samatar, noted author, editor and worldwide lecturer, at the June Higher Education Guest Lecture Series event on Tuesday, June 7 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the North Shore Campus in Grand Marais. Samatar’s presentation Escape from Hell: What Now for Somali- Americans? will summarize how and... READ MORE >
ORB Management placed its construction trailer and a large sign about the library renovation on the Grand Marais Public Library lawn this week, so the town is buzzing. “We are charging ahead with moving plans,” said Library Director Linda Chappell. The School District 166 school board has said the library can temporarily move into the district office and Jane Mianowski... READ MORE >
What will it mean to have an Energy Plan for Cook County and Grand Marais? Will it result in cheaper, cleaner, more reliable energy in the future? Or will it mean more governmental regulation? The answer maybe influenced by who shows up to participate in the energy planning process that is now underway. In particular, the Cook County Energy Plan... READ MORE >
A number of young people from the Hovland community and Trinity Lutheran Church are holding a double-fundraiser. To show how serious they are about these worthy causes, the intrepid young people (and some adults) will be jumping off the Hovland dock on Chicago Bay Road into frigid Lake Superior on Wednesday, May 25 at 5:00 p.m. Consider coming out to... READ MORE >
Artist Kelly Dupre was featured on WDSE’s The Playlist on May 19, along with how and where to celebrate Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday, and American folk band Yester. The local art and music show is repeated Thursdays at midnight and Saturdays at 3 p.m. on PBS North-8. Dupre is an Art Colony and North House Folk School instructor and creator... READ MORE >
Are you interested in developing the skills necessary for today’s workforce? Cook County Higher Education in collaboration with Lake Superior College will offer the “Knowledge Worker” course beginning June 6 at the North Shore Campus in Grand Marais. Peter Drucker first coined the term “Knowledge Worker” in 1959 as “one who works primarily with information or one who develops and... READ MORE >
One and a half years ago the North Shore Commercial Fishing museum instituted a new program called Stories of the Fishing Life, as told by those who have lived it. The next event will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 21 at the fishing museum in Tofte. The guest speaker will be Betty Sivertson Strom, who will talk about... READ MORE >
Thrivent Mutual Funds were ranked number one among 57 fund families for the 2010 mixed equity funds category in Lipper/Barron’s Fund Family annual survey. Thrivent Mutual Funds received an overall ranking of 13 out of 57, as announced in the Feb. 7 issue of Barron’s. Both rankings were for the year ending Dec. 31, 2010. The survey, issued by Barron’s... READ MORE >
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