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Lutsen Trailbreakers received a grant that will help finance the building of a washed-out snowmobile bridge

On Thursday, November 16, Polaris Inc. (NYSE: PII) announced it was giving donations of more than $100,000 to off-road vehicles (ORV), all-terrain vehicles (ATV), and snowmobile organizations across the United States and Canada as a part of its TRAILS GRANTS program.

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Let’s make some toys!

This month, area libraries will be offering Handmade Toy Take & Create Art Kits as the Arrowhead Library System’s (ALS) newest Legacy event, available December 4-30. This art experience, created by 321 Art Studio, explores toy making for beginners.

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Honor Roll

Robert Christianson MaKai Fairbanks Karis Ford Elias Monson Brooklyn Nelson Lucas Peters Aitan Seim Mali Sheils Liam Smith Elizabeth Anderson Sophia Christianson River Foster August Gulstrand Charlie Hackett Jadin Kimball Jenessa Kimball Bennito Mendivil Ty Mielke Bea Mueller Lucas Oberg Alexander Rodriguez Wyatt Sandstorm Lucille Walters Carter Watkins 8th Grade Jorjah Backstrom Shelby Bissell Lucas Hackett Scarlet Higgins Alivia Higgins Rolan King Justin LaBoda Hazel Liechty Ava Niemeyer Jeremy Swanson 9th grade Leah Belmore Ashlyn Childs Ayden DeRosier MaCoy Fairbanks General Higgins Lute Jansen Adam Oberg Dylan O’Brien Devan Rude Avery Sjoberg Kadence Swader 10th Grade Tobias Anderson Parker Backstrom Sofi Boen Bear Foster Jack LaBoda Edward Larson Alexis Plummer Adalin Roberts Sophia Sheehan Landon Sheils Nicholas Spry Rio Tersteeg Amber Theiner 11th Grade Tucker Berglund Kendra Berglund Jeffery Burton Wyatt Clay Anakwad Redix Hunter Rex Rohan Rude Isaac Schmidt Cade Smith Elsa Sorensen Finnley Taylor Chandler Young Reuben Youngdahl 12th Grade Calvin Battees Ian Brooks Arlo Christiansen Taylor Everson Amos Falter Wyatt Hadley Weston Higgins Kamryn Johnson Amery Oberg Brayden Schmidt Ryan Shannon ISD 166 High Honor Roll for fall quarter 6th grade Lindy Dix Liam Gillespie Lucy Kartes Nico Tersteeg 7th grade Landon Berglund Trygve King Dwight Likiaksa Leif Lindstrom Jack Radloff Waylon Sjoberg Anthony Waver Aubrey Williams 8th grade Ella Hallberg Garrett Plummer Kaitlyn Shannon Lilija Smith 9th grade Lauren Berglund Ian Cooley Talon DeBoer Anni Dix Kajsa Ekstrom Ethan Fish Noah Gregg Sophia Lindstrom Sidney Litterest Brianna Monson Eero Moody Grant Oberg Graham Oberholtzer Cole Pederson Elias Pszwaro Paitence Sifferath 10th Grade Emma Crook Georgi Dimitrov Ben Fitzgerald-Wells Ruby Gulstrand Zoe Kacures Hans Mehlhaff Maya Rodriguez Mary June Wharton Grete Youngdahl 11th grade Jordan Backstrom Grace Blomberg Kaj Erickson MaTaya Fairbanks Claire Lindstrom Molly Quello Knut Remmem Noah Smith Frances Surbaugh 12th grade Kalina Dimitrova Raymond Dressely Wren Ferry Kyla Knapper Cy Oberholtzer Robert Rodriguez Trinity Rude Genevieve Silence Maggie Smith Siena Woerheide .

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Historical Reflections

Reprinted from the 1938 edition of the Cook County News-Herald Remember when making a long-distance telephone call was a big deal? And making that call came from a landline? Well, it was even more special in 1938 when phones were relatively new. Your call back then was handled by a switchboard operator who would plug a patch cord into the socket of the person you called (if the call was local) on the switchboard.

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Annual NFG Holiday Sale & Open House

The Northwoods Fiber Guild will host their annual Holiday Sale & Open House on Saturday, December 2nd, 2023 at the Grand Marais Art Colony’s Studio 21 located at 21 West Highway 61 in Grand Marais, Minnesota. This sale is a well known tradition along the north shore featuring quality one-of-a kind fiber crafts handcrafted by guild members. The doors will be open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. with tasty treats, fiber demos, take-home craft kits, music, and plenty of holiday spirit.

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Packing the House

Winterers’ Gathering at North House Rae Poynter, N.H. Communications and Marketing Manager Neighbors, friends, and visitors packed the house for Winterers’ Gathering and Arctic Film Festival at North House last weekend.

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