Weekly Weather Date High Low Precipitation From Josiah Avery, East County Road 14 December 19 33.1 7.7 0 0.00 December 20 27.3 17.4 0 0.00 December 21 37.0 27.3 0 0.00 December 22 37.8 34.2 0 0.00 December 23 37.9 34.3 Rain Trace December 24 42.6 39.0 Rain 0.08 December 25 44.8 35.8 Rain 0.39 Season-to-date snowfall: 6.2 Inches Last season to date snowfall: 67.4 Inches
The city of Grand Maris will receive $51,800 from the Minnesota ReLeaf Grant Program, a plan of action that aims to help communities achieve 'climate-resilient communities identified in the Minnesota Climate Action Framework by planting and maintaining a diverse and sustainable community tree canopy.” The goal is to reach 30 percent overall tree canopy cover in Minnesota communities by 2030 and 40 percent by 2050. The money will come from the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) ReLeaf Community Forestry grants, 2023-2027--with no required local match. According to the DNR ReLeaf program, funds were given to “local units of government and non-profit organizations in Minnesota that encourage and promote the inventory, planting, assessment, maintenance, treatment, improvement, protection and restoration of trees and forest resources to enhance community forest health and sustainability, reduce atmosphere carbon dioxide levels and promote energy consumption.”
Members of the Board to Directors, Administration, and members of the public: North Shore Health is at a crossroads. Dr. Dahlman’s detailed piece in the News Herald seems a fair summary of his dismissal as I understand it. Though it is long, it deserves a careful reading if you have not yet done so.
2024 Final Levy and TNT The county approved a 2024 preliminary levy increase of 9% on September 13. At that meeting the board also set the date for the truth-in-taxation (TNT) meeting as Thursday November 30 at 6:00 p.m.
Cook County will have to wait until sometime in January and maybe longer to have an official gun range The Flintlock Range Association (FRA) requested a Conditional Use Permit to operate an outdoor sports park, including shooting ranges and courses with public and private events, on 360 acres of county-owned land. Still, it was delayed because of two issues.
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ISD 166 School Board held a meeting on Thursday, December 14, 2023, and one of the items on the board’s to-do list was to have a public hearing before certifying the 2024 tax levy for the school district.
More than 30 people crowded into the hospital board meeting room on December 21 to see if they could spur the hospital board into reinstating Dr. Bruce Dahlman, a doctor with more than 39 years of experience, and to address other concerns.