Journals and Ground Truth The first of April, 1978 found my sixteen year old self waking up to blue skies, frost, and the sound of crows harassing a great horned owl in a nearby oak. I had spent the night shivering under the stars as a north wind blew through my new sleeping bag, a notso- good one that reflected my very limited financial means.
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TAMPA I'm back home, I'm exhausted and my skull, with the lessening 'protective' foliage on top, is sunburned, but what a week! The Frozen Four tourney in Tampa was enjoyable and as always, was a heck of a tournament. The Quinnipiac Bobcats prevailed over the Minnesota Gophers in the National title game in a 3-2 OT thriller. In the National semis on Thursday, the Gophers bested Boston University by a 6-2 final. BU scored first and the first two frames were up and down before the Gophers took the tilt over in the third period for the win. In the evening game, Quinnipiac University faced off against the Michigan Wolverines. I believe most analysis was of the opinion that the title game would be a Big Ten Conference feature. I could envision that, but then again, I told my son, who was at the event with me, that it wouldn't surprise me in the least if the Bobcats won the game and eliminated Michigan from the tourney, and that is what happened. From my view, I didn't think Michigan played their best game, their usual crisp passing and shooting seemed to be off. But then, you can't underestimate how Quinnipiac's play forced that to occur. These teams were knotted at two each before the Cats took over the third period on their way to a 5-2 win and a spot in the Championship game. The title game had an ominous beginning to it just 21 seconds in when the Cat's Skyler Brind'Amour leveled the Gopher's D-man Mike Koster with a vicious headshot. The referees though lacked the courage to eject him from the game as they should have, and the Cat's penalty kill prevailed during the ensuing Gopher power play for two minutes. However, by the time this game was early into the second frame, the Gophers had built a 2-0 lead on goals by John Middlestadt and Jaxon Nelson.
Child Marriages Were you aware that child marriages were outlawed in Minnesota three years ago? On May 12, 2020, Governor Tim Walz signed into law a bill (effective August 1, 2020) providing that you must be at least 18 years old to get married in Minnesota. The law previously had an exception, common in most states.
The reluctant editor was still awaiting word that the Camp Shack Marching Band had made it across the Pigeon River and into Canada. In the meantime, he was really enjoying his brief respite from the Great March for Community Newspapers and was wandering around Lake County in search of out-of-the-way places. He will share another of those places with you now.
Based on the seven cooperative principles, including democratic member control, Co-op Light & Power (CLP) provides electricity for over 6,000 residents of Lake County. Made of up five districts in outlying Lake County, CLP is one of the smaller power co-ops in the state, but still relies on the fundamental principle of democratic participation by members who vote for representation of each district to a board of directors.
An Explanation of the life of a home from abandonment to new inhabitants Housing issues in Lake County inevitably give rise to the question, why isn’t anyone living in the empty home down the street? No one likes to see abandoned living spaces, especially through the winter. One of two things is happening if a home is abandoned: it is foreclosed, which is when mortgage payments go unpaid, or it is tax-forfeit, which is land that has been forfeited to the state due to unpaid taxes.
Friday, April 7 “Morning News and Conversation” at the TH Public Library from 10:00-11:00 a.m. Good Friday Service at Bethlehem Lutheran at 1:00 p.m.
If you visit Mitch Costley at his office, you can’t help but notice the history documented in photos all around. Talk to him for more than a few minutes, and the history of Lake County will soon be wound into his conversation. Proud of his ancestral roots that go deep in Lake County, Mitch says that he has members on both his mother’s and father’s sides that were pioneers here before Minnesota even became a state. After obtaining his law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School, Mitch returned to Two Harbors to open his first law practice in the fall of 1967.
In late August and September 2011, the Pagami Creek Fire burned over 92,000 acres in the Boundary Waters Wilderness east of Ely. Started by a lightning strike, the fire smoldered for days before spreading across the Wilderness at an alarming rate, prompting sudden evacuations of campers and putting lives and property at risk.