Drizzle doesn’t dampen Boat Show attendance
It’s hard to count the number of visitors to the North House Folk School campus during the Wooden Boat Show and Summer Solstice Pageant because people come and go—they come to look at the beautiful wooden boats on display. They come to visit with crafters displaying their wares or to take part in a workshop. They come to sail on the Folk School’s Schooner Hjordis. Full Story
Pulse Broadband breaks connection
Arrowhead Electric Cooperative, Inc. (AECI) Manager Don Stead dropped a bombshell at the cooperative’s annual meeting on Saturday, June 19. For months, AECI has been working with Pulse Broadband to bring internet, telephone, and television services to Cook County. The two entities jointly applied for a stimulus grant from the Rural Utilities Service (RUS). Full Story
Hellfighters please apply
From the first days of the now infamous Deepwater Horizon oil rig fire and subsequent never-ending oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, I have been wishing that there was really a hero like John Wayne’s character in the 1968 movie Hellfighters.
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Live a life of joy!
Back in the 1880s, a group of men was looking for gold in the mountains of Montana. After weeks of hard work panning on an unnamed creek, one of them found an unusuallooking rock. Breaking it open, he couldn’t believe what he saw, a nugget of gold bigger than he had ever dreamed of finding. Full Story
Community Calendar
Cook County AA Meetings
Mondays:
Open Meeting, 7:30 PM, Grand Marais Senior Center (1st Monday of the month is potluck/speaker meeting. Potluck at 6:30 PM and speaker at 7:30).
Tuesdays:
Big Book Study Group, Open Meeting, 6:00 PM, First Congregational Church in Grand Marais. Full Story
West End Calendar
Tofte Town Meeting
Held the 2nd Thursday of each month, 7:00 p.m. at the Tofte Town Hall, 7240 Tofte Park Road. 3/13tfn
Lutsen Township Monthly Meetings
Held the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. at the Lutsen Town Hall located at 116 Caribou Trail. 4-17tfn Full Story
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