Henkel retires after arrest
The Lake County Board of Commissioners Tuesday approved without comment the retirement of Health and Human Services Director Dennis Henkel after he was arrested and pleaded guilty to a July 13 drunk driving charge.
RELATED CONTENTBay Days in pictures
Last weekend the cities of Silver Bay and Beaver Bay celebrated in summer style with their annual Bay Days.
RELATED CONTENT2010 primary preview
With a primary election coming up on Aug. 4, the News-Chronicle looks at local races involving more than two candidates.
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- North Shore judge candidate questions
- Lake County Board, District 4 questions
- Judge candidate: Russ Conrow
- Judge candidate: Tim Costley
- Judge candidate: Juhl Halvorson
- Judge candidate: John Steven Lind
- Judge candidate: Tim Little
- Judge candidate: Lawrence Ulanowski
- Lake County Board, District 4 candidate: Mark Broin
- Lake County Board, District 4 candidate: Judy Olson
- Lake County Board, District 4 candidate: Paul Bergman
Couple survives scary canoe spill
They couldn’t stop shaking. He went to hug her and she thought the worst. He wants to hold me, one last time, because we’re going to die. They can’t find us and we are going to freeze to death.
RELATED CONTENTLook for a tall ship
Duluth expects more tha 200,000 visitors this weekend as it hosts another Tall Ships event at the harbor.
RELATED CONTENTFor Two Harbors judge candidates, a tough road
If they had the political savvy of say, a Paul Wellstone, they might be able to get it done. That would be the Wellstone who in television campaign ads ran from venue to venue to show that a little-known guy on no budget really had no time for ads, he was trying to knock on everyone’s door to introduce himself.
RELATED CONTENTCounty responds in cell tower dispute
Is it “palustrine emergent, saturated palustrine forested, and palustrine scrub shrub with seasonal emergent” or is it statute-defined wetland?
RELATED CONTENT‘Bar Church’ draws a crowd
A guy walks into a bar and starts a church. For some, that might sound like the set-up for a punch line. But for Chris Fletcher, there’s no joke. He likes to relax and chat at Dunnigan’s Pub & Grub in Two Harbors.
RELATED CONTENTDefunct Beaver Bay store in court with city
The city of Beaver Bay and Barry Braun, owner of the former North Shore Mercantile and Bearpaw Brewhaus in the Beaver Bay Community Center, are embroiled in a lease disagreement that reached district court in Two Harbors.
RELATED CONTENTGooseberry manager retiring
Paul Sundberg grew up as the seventh of 10 kids on a farm near McGregor. Money was tight. When it was time for him to leave home, his dad had a little talk with him.
RELATED CONTENTFireworks planned for lighthouse
The 100th birthday candle gets lit Saturday as Split Rock Lighthouse marks the exact date 100 years ago the icon first shot a beam across Lake Superior.
RELATED CONTENTFirst Avenue work begins Monday
The details are now set and the reconstruction of First Avenue in downtown Two Harbors will begin Monday.
RELATED CONTENTCounty hears bonding plans for cities
Members of the Lake County Board of Commissioners were all ears last week as they listened to what Two Harbors and Silver Bay want out of the next year’s state bonding session.
RELATED CONTENTSo much art: Beaver Bay woman celebrates another family fair with children
Marion Gray is the grandmother of art in her family. It’s a family so prolific in painting, sculpting, music, mixed media, and carving that they decided a few years ago to start an art fair.
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