Quarantine proposal raises concerns
May 9, 2013 in Lake County News-Chronicle
Some big changes could be coming to the Northeastern Minnesota logging and lumber businesses, bringing new challenges for one of the region’s biggest industries.The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is set to initiate a quarantine on wood harvested in Lake and Cook counties next spring in an effort to stop the nationwide spread of the invasive gypsy moth, putting in place strict regulations on the transportation of wood from the two counties. Continue Reading
Optimus Prime, the Cook County-Two Harbors Cross Country team mascot has returned. 
Forest officials released eight new maps that are the backbone of a new motorized vehicles plan, showing where ATVs and other motorized vehicles can and can’t go away from main roads. 
Tim Scannell and Molly Hicken were a team on Dec. 15 when they and their courtroom bailiff saved each others’ lives by disarming a man who forced his way into the Cook County Attorney’s office in Grand Marais and shot Scannell three times.
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