Pollinators
Pollinators As spring approaches, many of us are thinking less about winter and more about warm weather activities. The fishing opener is very high on the list of many, but gardening and flower beds are the top interests of many others.
March 2024
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COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Grand Marais Toastmasters Saturday, March 16, at ONE P.M. (Please note time change!) We're starting a Toastmasters Club in Grand Marais! Toastmasters International is a nonprofit educational organization that builds confidence and teaches public speaking skills.
Grand Marais Playhouse to present Queens
The Grand Marais Playhouse proudly presents Queens by Kristin Doherty at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts on March 15-17 and 22-24. The play is a dramatic tale of an old King Henry VIII, trapped in purgatory, bound to his throne by a sinister Fool.
Biden and Trump win Cook County delegates
President Joe Biden is popular in Cook County. He received 749 votes to lead his Democratic challengers by a wide margin.
Down Memory Lane
10YEARS AGO MARCH 8, 2014 v The U.S. Forest Service issued a reminder this week that the 90-day public common period for the NorthMet Mining Project and Land Exchange Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement will end March 13, 2014.
St. Luke’s Completes Affiliation with Aspirus
On March 1, 2024, St. Luke’s announced it had officially completed its affiliation with Wausau, Wisconsin-based Aspirus Health. The expanded health system now operates 19 hospitals and 130 outpatient locations with nearly 14,000 team members, including 1,300 employed physicians and advanced practice clinicians across northeastern Minnesota, northern and central Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The system will operate headquarters in Wausau and maintain a corporate office in Duluth.
Historical Reflections
Reprinted from November 1, 1984, Cook County News-Herald Dr. Bruce Dahlman, his wife Katie, and son Erik recently moved to Grand Marais.
Local Aviation scholarship available
The Arrowhead Eagles Aviation Organization (AEAO) will provide a $2,500 scholarship to anyone that aspires to a career in the aviation industry or wishes to pursue flight training leading to a pilot’s license. This will be the 6th aviation scholarship awarded by the Eagles, a Cook County based non-profit with a mission to provide support to aviation in our community. The scholarship is made possible by funds raised through the annual Fly-In Pancake Breakfast and personal donations to the Eagles. The scholarship winner will be announced at the Eagles annual meeting, Saturday, May 18th at Skyport Lodge.
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources denies requests for an EIS and dam safety permit for Mile Post 7 tailings dam expansion
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources denies requests for an EIS and dam safety permit for Mile Post 7 tailings dam expansion The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) denied requests by WaterLegacy, tribes, other environmental organizations, and hundreds of Minnesotans for an environmental impact statement (EIS) for expansion of the Mile Post 7 Class 1 hazard level tailings dam to contain Northshore Mine tailings waste located above the town of Silver Bay and just three miles from Lake Superior. Although the proposed tailings dam length would increase by more than two miles and new tailings would cover an additional 650 acres, DNR denied that there was any expansion of the dam or any potential for significant environmental effects.