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At a Two Harbors City council meeting on March 28 city attorney Tim Costley turned in his opinion rendered at the direction of the council on several issues regarding Mayor Chris Swanson. While the results of the city attorney’s opinion were not reviewed during the meetings on March 28, they were included as part of the council packet open to public review.

According to the facebook page of the Resign or Recall group after the evening event held at the community center on March 30 over 600 signatures had already been collected from eligible voters in the city, calling for a recall.

At a regular meeting of the Lake Superior School District #381 the school board held discussion of a tax abatement issue in the city of Silver Bay. A special meeting was held for a deeper look into the matter a couple of weeks ago. LSSD Superintendent Jay Belcastro recommended the tax abatement process be approved.

The term “Fire Adapted Community” is new, though the concept is not. People have always been afraid of and prepared for fire. But with wildfire damage exponentially growing since the turn of the century, more communities and agencies are getting proactive. The Arrowhead Region (which, according to the USDA Fire Danger map, scores high for both risk and consequence of fire) has created the Arrowhead Fire Adapted Communities website as a resource for individuals, agencies, and communities. According to the website, the AFAC “receives leadership from Dovetail Partners, whose mission is to provide authoritative information about the impacts and trade-offs of environmental decisions, including consumption choices, land use, and policy alternatives. Dovetail believes fire is a necessary tool in the fire-adapted forests of northern Minnesota and supports work in the region to make communities more resilient to wildfire. Other partners that support this effort include the Superior National Forest, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, various county and local government agencies, and other environmental nonprofits.”