Over 200 supporters gathered on Highway 61 Friday in Grand Marais, Minn. last weekend to protest the Supreme Court overturning of Roe v. Wade. They chanted, “My Body, My Choice”, “Bans Off Our Bodies”, “Women’s Rights are Human Rights”, “Abort the Patriarchy”, and “Register to Vote”. (Photo by Maryl Skinner.)
Every June for the past four years, Sea Change Expeditions in the big red sailboat has headed for Isle Royale with five teenagers, three of them local, aboard as crew. After ten days of sailing around this pristine archipelago of over 450 islands, we sail back to Minnesota. We aim to turn the teenagers loose on the world with scratched legs, bug bites, and a climate change toolkit that will energize and inspire their engagement and interactions with others. How do we get there?
Silver Bay and Lakeview Christian Academy in Duluth will join Two Harbors’ combined, cooperative high school football program this fall, the Lake County Press has learned. “Silver Bay and LCA reached out to us, expressing interest after hearing good things about our cooperative with Duluth Marshall,” Agates football head coach Tom Nelson said Tuesday morning.
In a public hearing leading off on Tuesday the Silver Bay city council heard feedback about a proposal to vacate Midbrod Circle, and a portion of East Lakeview Drive located in the Business Park plat.
On Tuesday a paddleboard crossing of Lake Superior brought much needed attention to what people with disabilities can accomplish and raised money for youth mental wellness. Mike Shoreman was at the top of his game in 2018.
I am excited to introduce Tiffany Cadwell who I just met down by the depot. She was looking for the best view of the lake, “within walking distance”.
Mr. Baseball in Two Harbors would be a well-deserved moniker for Tim Bott, the Agates’ seemingly tireless baseball head coach who also manages the city’s American Legion senior and VFW junior teams and runs the flourishing Little League program.
Back in Bristol Bay, Alaska with 40,000 or so pounds of sockeye salmon under our belt early in the commercial fishing season, I haven’t had much time to listen to the news. Oh, there’s been news.
Moving operations from her long-running Salon 507 at her home, Courtney is excited about how renovations of the newly opened Salon 507 on Seventh have turned out, crediting husband Brian with lots of hard work tearing apart and rebuilding the 1899 structure.
The Lake Superior School District board approved a preliminary budget for next school year, approving for the third year in a row a preliminary budget that is projected to be running at a deficit. None of the projected budget costs are related to the recent referendum or school building improvements.