Minnesota's Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTs) is awarding seed grants to 45 energy efficiency and renewable energy projects—including six within the northeast region of Minnesota. The projects range from educational outreach on clean energy incentives, energy efficiency for manufactured homes, and skill-building for clean energy careers.
The Cook County News-Herald publishes Matters of Record to inform the public of arraignments and dispositions of criminal cases in which the punishment exceeds $150 and/or ten days in jail and/or includes one year of supervised adult probation. It is the Cook County News-Herald’s policy that this information contains a complete record. Requests for items to be withheld will not be granted.
Photo courtesy of David Johnson .
Although the Cook County News-Herald knows that the majority of sportsmen and women are law-abiding folks, there are a few that run afoul of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Conservation Officers. Periodically, the DNR provides a report of some of the miscreants the Conservation Officers (CO) have encountered. The News-Herald shares these stories as a reminder to all to be safe and to follow the rules!
Well, we finally got winter this winter. David Johnson captured this snowarama picture this past week which reminds one of a Claude Monet winter scene.
A $1.7 million grant from the Bush Foundation is funding an innovative new program that will enhance access to doula support for birthing families at St. Luke’s Birthing Center. Called Plus One Doula Program, the initiative seeks to enhance birth equity, as well as support healthier pregnancies and deliveries throughout our region.
The Johnson Heritage Post Art Gallery and Historic Cook County are reaching out to full or part time residents of Cook County to participate in a survey. We have begun working with artist Sam Gathje to create a Site-Specific Public Art Project that will occupy the center space of the JHP courtyard.
The Russian boreal forest stretches from the White Sea to the international dateline in the Bearing Strait, across 10 time zones and covers over 3 million square miles (over half the land mass of Russia). It is mostly made up of taiga and the taiga is 37% larch; the treeline and the northern portion are exclusively larch.
This column last week set records for responses, both directly and on Facebook’s Community website. All but two were thankful.
With the New Year comes new sniffles. Up here in the Arrowhead region we are now in deep winter, although it took a while to arrive this year. Just as the seasons are cyclical, so are our bodies. It’s never fun, but getting sick is how our bodies upgrade our immune system so that we can fight off more invaders in the future (your future self thanks you). That said, we don’t have to bundle up and sit here complacently! There are actions we can take to boost the odds of our immune systems.