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If you have $189,000 there are 40 acres of property for sale at 932 Pike Lake Road with a nice gravel road and some brush and trees cleared for a building site. It’s beautiful property.
Tom Morse tmorse@ northhouse.org For almost a decade, North House has wrestled with a tough decision— the iconic Yellow house’s foundation was shifting in opposite directions, and the building used first as staff office and now as a school store was being ripped in half. Countless repairs to the roof had been made over the years, and the question became: how much money do you invest in a building that no longer fits your needs? And then, is there some way to give the building a second life? First, North House reached out to Hamilton Habitat and the Cook County HRA to see if the building might be useful in the effort to add more housing in the community, but both organizations were unable to take on a structure that would potentially require significant work.
Through April, lodging tax collections for Lutsen and Tofte and the Grand Marais area were down when compared to last year over the same period. That said, they are slightly up for the Gunflint Trail area.
The West End Garden Club is pleased to announce that their annual flower show will be held in a new location this year. It will take place at Waves of Superior Cafe Surfside Resort ballroom, Tofte, on Saturday July 15 from 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Traps will be set by survey staff now through July The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) will set approximately 20,000 traps this year looking for spongy moth ( Lymantria dispar), formally known as gypsy moth. The traps will be set throughout the eastern half of the state and in far northwestern Minnesota as part of a “western rotation.” This work is part of the MDA’s annual trapping survey program and is designed to protect Minnesota’s forests and urban areas from new infestations of spongy moth by detecting potential problem areas for future treatments.
Following the recent Lake Superior drowning of two 18-year-old men near Silver Bay, State Senator Grant Hauschild (DFL) has called on the U.S. Coast Guard to reopen the Grand Marais Coast Guard Station.
Northern Minnesota counties will receive a boost of nearly $9 Million thanks to the 2023 Legislature. The new funding is designed for Counties with large public land holdings and is known as Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT). It is intended to compensate counties for the loss of property taxes on the State’s vast acreage of public land in Northern Minnesota. Northern counties are disproportionately dependent on PILT funding. when compared to other regions of the state.
“My parents took care of us, and we didn’t even know a war was on. We had a garden, lived on a farm and we never went without.
Nurture, nature and osmosis, steps to training dogs Dora was David Copperfield’s first wife of two, his second true love of three. She was enchanting - a Fairy and a Sylph - with a delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, and the pleasantest little ways.