Over the past year, the Art Colony has implemented new programs in our ceramics studio, with the goal of offering more people the opportunity to work with clay. In addition to offering many multi-week classes, workshops, and demonstrations for both beginner and advanced students, we now have opportunities for studio access that are more flexible, and geared towards artists with varying levels of studio needs and experience.
When a subsidiary of what would become Twin Metals was drilling to explore copper and nickel in 2011 near Birch Lake near Ely and Babbitt, it found Helium instead. Lots of Helium.
Cook County Public Health and Human Services has announced an update to their affiliation with the Steve Rummler Network as an official Naloxone Access Point. The Steve Rummler Network’s mission is to “heighten awareness of the opioid crisis, address its impact on the physical and emotion burdens of addiction and chronic pain, and improve the associated care process.” The free harm reduction supplies are now available in a labeled cabinet in the PHHS office lobby. For more information, visit: https://steverummlerhopenetwork.org/.
The Grand Marais Public Library’s Reading Wonderland Winter Reading Program begins January 8 and runs through March 1, 2024. This Winter Reading Program is for all ages.
Cook County Public Health was awarded $39,000 from the Minnesota “Live Well at Home” grant program. The state allocated $9.5 million to help aging Minnesotans stay in their homes longer by offering caregiver support, housekeeping, retrofitting lodging to prevent falls, and other assistance.
An interactive learning experience about Indigenous history and the laws, policies, and programs used during US nation-building is coming to Cook County. The Cook County Welcoming Communities Inclusion cohort is organizing this community event open to all.
Cook County Commissioners second meeting of the year contained changes in positions at the the courthouse and to committees for the coming year, as well as okaying permits for events and businesses. *North Shore Waste’s solid waste hauler license for 2024 was approved.
A new record for efficiency in city council meetings might have ended the 2023 year. The Grand Marais City Council held a brief meeting on December 27 with the typical consent agenda and one item on the main agenda, setting the 2023 tax levy collected in 2024.
Reprinted from the front page of the Cook County News-Herald January 11, 1896 edition. Local news almost didn’t exist in the older editions of the Cook County News-Herald so readers were treated regional, national and international news and stories like the one below.
No lines out of the Rec Park office door. No parking lot full of shivering, sleepy people, many of whom had arrived many hours before from far, far away.