The Grand Marais Art Colony and the Cook County Food Shelf are front and center this week as the 8th annual Empty Bowls Dinner & Silent Auction gets underway tomorrow (Thursday, Nov. 10) at the First Congregational Church. For a $10 suggested donation, people can choose a beautiful handmade bowl displayed on the first floor [...]

This is the week when the sun sent a  large coronal mass ejection towards Earth, which arrived on Oct. 24. The intense geomagnetic storm resulted in fabulous northern lights that reportedly could be seen as far south as New Mexico and Alabama. To read all about the storm on www.spaceweather.com, click here. Our trusty local [...]

This is the month of golds and reds and yellows, no doubt about it, and the beauty of fall colors has just gone on and on this year. The woods are still gorgeous and will probably  remain so for at least another week. Don Davison was out earlier this week and caught the gorgeous photo [...]

Ah, ’tis the season of the leaves — red leaves, yellow leaves, orange leaves  and everything in between bedeck the hills up and down the North Shore this time of year in all their breathtaking beauty. This is definitely the week to take a hike on Oberg Mountain, Bloomberg Mountain or the gondola at Lutsen [...]