June 2025
Historical Reflections
Reprinted from the June 30, 1955 Cook County-News-Herald
A Poetry Workshop on Movement
North Shore poet Shelley Getten will teach at the library’s monthly poetry workshop
Cook County Pride Celebration draws big crowd
The 2025 June 14th Pride Celebration, with its theme of “Love is our Resistance”, was a testament to the inclusivity and diversity of our community.
Gunflint Clean Up 2025
The Gunflint Clean Up held Saturday, June 7 was a huge success!!! 95 volunteers picked up litter alongside the Gunflint Trail. Volunteers wore their blue event t-shirts and gloves and scoured the ditches helping beautify the area. Andrea Hofeldt, owner of Loon Lake Lodge, and Shari Baker, owner of Gunflint Pines organized the event trying to create more awareness of litter while creating a fun community building event.
Benefit concert for Cook County Care Partners June 26
Care Partners of Cook County is excited to announce a benefit concert featuring The Splints!
Trinity Lutheran Church in Hovland to celebrate 75th anniversary of church
Trinity Lutheran Church of Hovland is proud to celebrate a significant milestone- the 75th anniversary of our beloved church building.
Don’t Roll Back the Clock on Clean Energy
Most of us recognize that climate change is not a hoax or part of a woke political agenda. I am disheartened and angry that a majority in the House of Representatives including our own representative Pete Stauber voted to support the nightmarish “Big Beautiful Bill” that among other things attempts to roll back the progress the US has made in clean energy and return us to an era of fossil-fuel dominance. The US has made great progress in transitioning to clean energy over the past decade and Minnesota has been a national leader in this transition. We’re fortunate to be able to access the huge energy potential of the windy Great Plains and sunshine across the region. 53% of our electric power in Minnesota is generated by zero carbon sources (wind, solar, nuclear, hydro) and the state is on track to meet a deadline of 100% carbon free power by 2040. According to the DOE’s Energy Information Administration 93% of new US generating capacity in 2025 will be solar, wind or battery storage. In Minnesota there are over 4,700 jobs and 164 businesses in the solar industry alone. In the next few years, we anticipate huge new electric demand from AI data centers, electric vehicles and more. Clean energy technologies are positioned to help Minnesota and the US meet that demand, helping both our economy and our environment. The drastic changes outlined in the Big Beautiful Bill would threaten this positive transition to a thriving economy driven by clean energy.