When the staff at Tasting Table, a digital media company that focusses on food and drink, was asked to name their favorite donut and where it was made in the US, the Powdered Sugar Cake Donuts at World’s Best Donuts made the list, although the Grand Marais donut bakery might have had an in. Sarah O’Phelan, now living in Denver... READ MORE >
If you want a chance to win this great canoe, go to Visit Cook County and plunk down $10 for a ticket. Proceeds from the annual canoe raffle go to fund grants for the following year for the Chamber’s Great Place Project. The winning ticket will be drawn August 23, 2023. Remember, you can’t paddle away in this canoe if... READ MORE >
Pet of the Week celebrates pets, past and present. Please share some of your favorite photos with all of us. If you bring a photo to the newspaper office, we can create a quality digital image with the scanner and give the photo right back to you. If you mail a photo to the newspaper office, we are careful to... READ MORE >
Happy Hikers alert, the schedule is set; now all you have to do is show up and hike! All hikes will meet in Grand Marais on Wednesday at the YMCA parking lot by the tennis courts at 9:00 a.m. We’ll carpool to the trailhead (suggested donation for drivers is $3) and hike for two to three hours. If you would... READ MORE >
One of Cook County’s largest events of the year, the Lutsen 99er, returns this weekend, June 23-24. The 99er has moved this year, with Superior National at Lutsen – Golf Course serving as the venue for the Friday event festivities, the Little Niners kids’ event, as well as the start and finish of the races on Saturday. Superior National will... READ MORE >
“There are better angels among us, and Thomas Sharp is one.” Brian Larsen Red-cheeked, tired, and a bit out of it at the finish line, Tiberius, age 6, looked just like he had finished a marathon. In fact, he had, but only because of the extraordinary efforts of Thomas Sharp, who pushed him in a three-wheeled stroller the whole way.... READ MORE >
No Joe Klecker this year. The 2018 Tofte Trek winner and 2020 Olympian is coming off a 2023 12:54 indoor 5K and an outdoor 27:07 10K and is instead racing against the best runners in the world in Europe on the Diamond League. Oh well, anything to get out of running the rugged Tofte Trek 10K! The annual July 4... READ MORE >
Starting at the U.S. Port of Entry Pigeon River border crossing in Grand Portage, Cook County Law Enforcement and friends carried the Flame of Hope to Grand Marais and then through Cook County last Monday, June 19, passing the torch to fellow law enforcement in Lake County. Taking part in the run was Paul Spry (Cook County Sheriff ’s Office),... READ MORE >
As a history and American Studies major in college, I cared deeply about civil rights issues then and now. I did not know most of what I read in Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 by Yale historian, Glenda Elizabeth Moore, now Emerita. And I am overwhelmed at how little detail I knew and how important that... READ MORE >
Camp Winnepamakeska is nestled deep in the woods, adjacent to, of course, Lake Winnepamakeska. In an activities pavilion, ROB PEREZ and TIMMY, 19, a camp counselor, sit at a picnic table. ROB PEREZ: Timmy, thanks for taking the time. TIMMY: I’m here all summer, I guess. R: I hear you’ve been coming to Camp Winnepamakeska a long time? T: Eleven... READ MORE >
