On June 24, a fire leveled Papa Charlie’s bar and restaurant at Lutsen Mountains. Almost exactly two years ago, the building’s namesake, Charles Mather Skinner III, died unexpectedly at the age of 87.

Tom Morse tmorse@ northhouse.org For almost a decade, North House has wrestled with a tough decision— the iconic Yellow house’s foundation was shifting in opposite directions, and the building used first as staff office and now as a school store was being ripped in half. Countless repairs to the roof had been made over the years, and the question became: how much money do you invest in a building that no longer fits your needs? And then, is there some way to give the building a second life? First, North House reached out to Hamilton Habitat and the Cook County HRA to see if the building might be useful in the effort to add more housing in the community, but both organizations were unable to take on a structure that would potentially require significant work.

The West End Garden Club is pleased to announce that their annual flower show will be held in a new location this year. It will take place at Waves of Superior Cafe Surfside Resort ballroom, Tofte, on Saturday July 15 from 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Traps will be set by survey staff now through July The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) will set approximately 20,000 traps this year looking for spongy moth ( Lymantria dispar), formally known as gypsy moth. The traps will be set throughout the eastern half of the state and in far northwestern Minnesota as part of a “western rotation.” This work is part of the MDA’s annual trapping survey program and is designed to protect Minnesota’s forests and urban areas from new infestations of spongy moth by detecting potential problem areas for future treatments.