Assessor’s summer 2023 update & Hovland property inspections On June 13, 2023, the County Board of Appeals & Equalization meeting adjourned, finalizing the 2023 assessment. The final 2023 assessed values show that Cook County’s overall taxable market value increased 14.2 percent over 2022.
Through April, lodging tax collections for Lutsen and Tofte and the Grand Marais area were down when compared to last year over the same period. That said, they are slightly up for the Gunflint Trail area.
The Cook County Sheriff ’s Office 911 Dispatch was notified at 6:44 p.m. on June 21, 2023, that fishermen on Gillis Lake had overturned their canoe and one of the canoeists who wasn’t wearing a PFD had never resurfaced.
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.
Weekly Weather Date High Low Precipitation From Josiah Avery, East County Road 14 June 2766.2 52.7 0.00 0 June 2863.3 50.0 1.19 0 June 2962.8 48.9 0.12 0 June 3077.7 52.0 0.00 0 July 1 72.0 54.7 0.00 0 July 2 76.1 56.7 0.00 0 July 3 74.3 54.0 0.00 0 The News Herald staff and readers wish to express their appreciation and gratitude to Dana Austin of Poplar Lake for providing weather reports these past many years. Dana's reports added interesting detail to the drama of Cook County weather.
If you have $189,000 there are 40 acres of property for sale at 932 Pike Lake Road with a nice gravel road and some brush and trees cleared for a building site. It’s beautiful property.
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Properties along the Gunflint Trail in Grand Marais, Minnesota remain open and unaffected amid the 22-acre Spice Lake fire located within the Boundary Waters Canoe… Login to continue reading Login…
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