Join the Grand Marais Library for a Dungeons and Dragons Information Session The Grand Marais Public Library is excited to invite people ages ten and up to an information session for a Dungeons and Dragons group, at the library from 5-6 p.m. on Wednesday, November 8.
Despite the rain and windy conditions last Thursday, October 26, the large meeting room at North Shore Health filled up as civic, business, and public members came to participate in Senator Grant Hauschild's (DFL-Hermantown) 'Northland Strong' meeting. The state senator has scheduled meetings across the Northland aimed at helping him understand what the community's concerns are over healthcare, housing, daycare, jobs, etc., how Minnesota's regulatory environment affects us, and how best to make the private/public sector work efficiently.
Bryan Hansel hadn't been on a long solo bicycle trip in the last few years, not since he biked from Duluth to Dubuque, Iowa to visit his parents. So, when he contemplated a long ride, he chose to do much of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Border to Border Touring Route.
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.
Rabbits are usually very good at blending in with their surroundings. Except, of course, when the weather changes and rabbits get stuck wearing their 'inbetween' fur, they stick out like a sore thumb.
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!
Welcome new Cook County MN employees! This marks our third ‘welcome’ article for 2023. If these names and faces seem familiar, they should! Not all of our available positions are filled by newcomers; at times there are highly skilled and experienced staff aboard who are able to transition within our ranks.
North House Folk School Director Greg Wright came before the Grand Marais City Council last Wednesday with a request to allow North House to share a sewer line with Angry Trout restaurant for the new building coming up and to hardscape a path that would be on city property that would lead to the main campus and the lakefront. He also requested North House be allowed to landscape around the new building on leased city property adjacent to their new building.
The public is invited to attend the Cook County School District's Truth in Taxation meeting on December 14, 2023, at 6 p.m. The meeting will be held in the Jane Mianowski room.
Since 1998, hundreds of timber framing students have passed through the doors of North House Folk School. To this day, timber framing continues to be a core part of North House’s programming and some of its most popular classes. Earlier this fall, over 50 of these students returned to campus for North House’s biggest timber framing project yet: building the new Welcome Center that will replace the little Yellow House. Using traditional timber framing techniques, it was a project that bridged the past and the future by celebrating the roots of the folk school and the community at the heart of it.