January 2023
To: citizens of Two Harbors
Among the many issues raised about the development concept for Lighthouse Point presented to the planning commission on January 3rd was the aesthetics of the proposed 28 townhouses themselves. Someone at the public hearing compared them to the “Minecraft houses” on London Road in Duluth, those inert looking boxes that are gradually obliterating several previously wooded city blocks. They were used as an example of what we do NOT
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The Reluctant Editor
Talk of raising the nation’s debt ceiling has stirred me into fiscal action. Congress just can’t find enough things to fight over but I can put a stop to it, and I did.
Katya’s Corner
‘Tis a new year. A fresh start. A great time to break up the rural/urban rift, one of the starkest divides in our country if you go by voting records. Lisa Pruitt, a native of rural Kansas who now lives and works at a California University, gave a cogent speech to the Westminster Town Hall on this topic. Mostly she was taking to task her liberal peers and associates for all the ways they intentionally or unintentionally disparage rural Americans. She discusses the urban criticism of government aid to rural communities, the implication that rural Americans have an “undue influence” on elections because of the electoral college, and urban “subsidies” to rural communities.
Two Harbors
Friday, January 20, 2023 5:45pm- Basketball: Girls JV Game vs. Cloquet @ Cloquet Middle School 5:45pm- Basketball: Boys C Game vs. Barnum @ Two Harbors High School 5:45pm- Basketball: Boys JV Game vs. Barnum @ Two Harbors High School 7:15pm- Basketball: Girls Varsity Game vs. Cloquet @ Cloquet Middle School 7:15pm- Basketball: Boys Varsity Game vs. Barnum @ Two Harbors High School
North Shore Storm Hockey
Friday, January 20 5:00pm- Hockey: Girls JV Game North Shore vs. Princeton @ Princeton 7:00pm- Hockey: Girls Varsity Game North Shore vs. Princeton @ Princeton Saturday, January 21, 2023 12:00pm- Hockey: Girls Varsity Game North Shore vs. Minnehaha Academy @ Minnehaha Academy Ice Arena 5:00pm- Hockey: Girls JV Game North Shore vs. Minnehaha Academy @ Minnehaha Academy Ice Arena Tuesday, January 24 5:00pm- Hockey: Girls JV Game Hibbing High School vs. North Shore @ Rukavina Arena 7:00pm- Hockey: Girls Varsity Game Hibbing High School vs. North Shore @ Rukavina Arena Thursday, January 26 4:00pm- Hockey: Boys JV Game International Falls vs. North Shore @ Rukavina Arena 6:00pm- Hockey: Boys Varsity Game International Falls vs. North Shore @ Rukavina Arena
Silver Bay
Friday, January 20, 2023 4:45pm- Basketball: Girls JV Game vs. Cromwell-Wright @ Silver Bay (Wm. Kelley) High School Silver Bay Elementary Gym 6:30pm- Basketball: Girls Varsity Game vs. Cromwell-Wright @ Silver Bay (Wm. Kelley) High School William Kelly High School Gym
From the Outside
Porcupines, Fishers, and Hunting on Skis. Last month’s heavy, wet snowfalls left a dense snowpack across northeastern Minnesota that is more reminiscent of the kind found in late March after a series of thaw-freeze cycles and a long period of settling.