The Historic Depot, a key part of the Grand Portage National Monument, has opened its doors to the public for the 2024 season on May 25, 2024. The Heritage Center and Historic Depot are now welcoming visitors from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days a week.
WTIP Staff Will Receive Training and Production Assistance from StoryCorps to Record Conversations Between Community Members Grand Marais, Minn., May 23, 2024—WTIP North Shore Community Radio has partnered for the second time with StoryCorps, the national nonprofit dedicated to helping us believe in each other by illuminating the humanity and possibility in us all, one story at a time, as part of StoryCorps’ One Small Step (OSS) Radio Station Hubs project. WTIP is one of seven public radio stations across the country selected to receive training and production assistance to collaborate on StoryCorps’ OSS initiative, an effort to bring strangers with different worldviews or political beliefs together for a conversation—not to debate, but to get to know each other as people.
Thanks to Gene and Bonnie Martz, the Art Colony has been bequeathed a tremendous body of artwork from their collection; a group of work that embodies and reflects the North Shore landscape created by a fantastic group of North Shore artists. Gene earned a three-year diploma in commercial art from the Minneapolis School of Art in 1950, and went on to earn both a BFA and M.Ed in art education at the University of Minnesota. He taught several classes at the Art Colony, including two in Italy. In 1978, he and Bonnie built a second home in the area and divided their time between the North Shore and Marin County, California. Both remained key supporters of the Art Colony until their passing in 2014 (Gene) and 2024 (Bonnie).
The Grand Marais Public Library launches its Read, Renew, Repeat summer reading program on Monday, June 10, 2024. Kids ages zero to 18 can choose between several ways of tracking their reading and learning activities and earning free books and other prizes.
TODD FORD, COOK COUNTY PUBLIC INFORMATION COORDINATOR The Cook County MN Board of Commissioners would like to share updates about the 2024 legislative end of session results as they pertain to our community. The DFL majority put all outstanding bills in to the tax omnibus bill, HF 5247.
TODD FORD, CC PUBLIC INFORMATION COORDINATOR Cook County Public Health and Human Services (PHHS) issues a Request for Proposals (RFP) through the Public Health Fund for programs to meet the following needs, prioritized through the most recent Community Health Assessment: • Affordable housing
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ATTORNEY OFFICE UPDATE March and April brought about a change in staff in the Cook County Attorney's Office and two jury trials which ultimately resolved criminal cases which were pending since 2021. On March 7 after a two-day jury trial held at the Cook County Courthouse, Daniel Lance Johnson of Saint Paul, now 42, was convicted of Second Degree Driving while Impaired (refusal to submit to chemical test), a gross misdemeanor.
After a comprehensive briefing from Radio Communication Specialist Jay DeCoux about the National Weather Service (NOAA) weather radio repeater at Gunflint Lake (Magnetic Tower site), a weather station that has been under the county's ownership and maintenance since 2000, the commissioners collectively agreed to return the station, along with all its equipment, to NOAA. This decision was reached after NOAA identified the Gunflint station as 'critical to fulfilling its mission.' Following the 1999 Blow-down, Sheriff Wirt entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with NOAA in 2000. This agreement stipulated that Cook County would take on the ownership and maintenance of the station. The purpose was to ensure coverage to the end of the Gunflint Trail and in the BWCAW. At that time, the National Weather Service had deemed the Gunflint weather station 'not mission critical.' Despite this, Cook County was responsible for funding the operation, while NOAA provided radio contact.
