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At the Grand Marais City Council’s July 30 meeting, the city council approved Hamilton Habitat’s request to start building two homes on 11th Avenue while Hamilton Habitat contractors also work to install water and sewer to the building sites.
Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative and Local Leaders Launch Preliminary Design Efforts to Strengthen Shorelines and Safeguard Infrastructure
Reprinted from the Sept. 3, 1970 Cook County News-Herald
Wildfires burning across central Saskatchewan and Manitoba continue to produce heavy smoke that is spreading across Minnesota. This past week, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) issued a three-day air quality alert that affected Cook County and Grand Portage. Stating, “This air is unhealthy for everyone. Anyone may begin to experience symptoms such as irritated eyes, nose, and throat, coughing, chest tightness, or shortness of breath. Sensitive or more exposed individuals may experience more serious health effects, including worsening of existing heart or lung disease and respiratory and cardiovascular conditions, possibly leading to an asthma attack, heart attack, or stroke.
The theme for this year’s Rendezvous Days was “Dressing the fur Trade”, with textiles-clothing, moccasins, finger weaving, rabbit fur, blankets, beaded garters and more on display throughout the Grand Portage National Monument, a site managed by the National Park Service in conjunction with the Grand Portage Band, the interactive demonstrations and workshops related to the 17th and 19th-century fur trade.
For several years, I have been considering a series of columns on Cook County Churches. Because I filled the pulpit at my home church last month, I now have occasion to start that series. I begin with my home church, First Congregational UCC in Grand Marais.
Award-winning novelist Brian Malloy will give a sneak peak of his next novel.
While boating to Isle Royale from the Grand Portage Marina with one friend, a Duluth man fell overboard and had to swim two miles to an island near Grand Portage.
Steve Deschene was named the 2025 Grand Marais Lions Club Citizen of the Year.