Would you like to meet a local author and illustrator? The Early Childhood Connections Program is thrilled to announce our January guest and co-host for our monthly social, Local Author and Nurse Practitioner, Kristin DeArruda Wharton author of Your Big Lake Family Gets Bigger. She will be at the Community Center with us to celebrate the new year and new babies in Cook County (Jan 6, from 10 – 11:30 a.m.).
20 YEARS AGO JANUARY 2, 2004 v Last week, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency announced that the Poplar River, from the Superior Hiking Trail bridge downstream three miles to its mouth at Lake Superior, was among 215 waters statewide that were added to the agency’s Impaired Waters list. Such waters do not meet the water quality standards of the national Clean Water Act.
The Harbor Light has been under the management of many people throughout the years. Today, the business is owned by Jeff and Susan Gecas and managed by Cassidy Gecas, who renamed it 'Up Yonder.' Over the last couple of years, the building has been redone inside and out and brought back to life as a bar/restaurant with a great music venue.
As climates are warming, wolverines are disappearing from snowy mountain areas, prompting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to add wolverines living in the Lower 48 to the threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
Winter film series is back The Grand Marais Public Library will be hosting Friday Night Reels, a unique film series showing weekly on Fridays at 6 p.m., with the first screening on January 5 and the last on March 8. The library’s film committee has selected ten independent and foreign films in order to inspire thoughtful discussion after each.
Reprinted from the February 20, 2010 edition of the Cook County News-Herald On January 29, 2010, the North Shore Hospital board of directors approved a management services agreement with St. Luke’s Hospital of Duluth.
Cook County Commissioners held a year-end business meeting on December 19, a date typically saved for the Committee of the Whole. • Commissioners approved a final 2024 budget and levy for the Cook County-Grand Marais Economic Development Authority of $490,720, an increase of $135,720 over 2023.
Auditor/Treasurer Braidy Powers prepared the October one percent local option sales tax numbers for the county board at the board’s December 22 meeting. Across the county, the one percent sales tax brought in $295,363 for October, a 7.4 percent increase over 2022 for the same month.
Weekly Weather Date High Low Precipitation From Josiah Avery, East County Road 14 December 19 33.1 7.7 0 0.00 December 20 27.3 17.4 0 0.00 December 21 37.0 27.3 0 0.00 December 22 37.8 34.2 0 0.00 December 23 37.9 34.3 Rain Trace December 24 42.6 39.0 Rain 0.08 December 25 44.8 35.8 Rain 0.39 Season-to-date snowfall: 6.2 Inches Last season to date snowfall: 67.4 Inches
