Indus School will close July 1 of this year; a motion by the school board May 31 to keep the school open one more year failed on a 4-2 vote. The action to follow through with an earlier recommendation to consider shuttering Indus School followed about 45 minutes of testimony from people attending the special school board meeting at the Northome and Indus school sites.
Alan Burchell shared this photo Monday, noting the tiny fawn was nestled between a stump and garden fence in South Falls. “It watched the garden owners planting pretty deer food,” he joked.
The field of four candidates seeking the Koochiching County District 5 commissioner seat will be narrowed in an Aug. 8 special primary election.
Riders with an all-terrain vehicle registered for private or agricultural use won’t need to pay the registration fee to ride the state’s public ATV trails June 10-11, reports the Department of Natural Resources.
John Ross Slack The history of early logging days often was filled with rivalries and bitter contests over control of the logs and the rivers that provided transportation. I suspect that cussing was at a premium when John Ross Slack was the “River Boss” for the Engler Company; its rival was the Backus-Brooks operation of International Falls.
The 2008 David Thompson Brigade flotilla of 160 canoeists will paddle through the Rainy River district to Pither’s Point Fort Frances. The visit is part of a historical reenactment that journeys 1,389 miles through four provinces in 63 days. The brigade is a bicentennial commemoration of explorer David Thompson (17701857). It is one of many events from 2007 to 2011 that celebrates the documenting of the Howse Pass in 1808 and the exploration that would eventually establish a trade route from Fort William to the western end of the Rocky Mountains. The trip began on May 10 at Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, and will conclude on July 12 at the Rendezvous festival of the Canadian fur trade at Fort Williams. The original Centennial Brigade visited Fort Frances in 1967 and some of the 160 canoeists were also in the 1967 flotilla.
Summer reading is underway! I hope you stopped by the library this week and attended a program, made sure everyone in the family had a reading log and borrowed enough books for everyone to get started reading this summer. If not, there is still plenty of time to participate this summer.
Question: I am excited for summer and doing some traveling. Can you talk about summer travel safety? Answer: Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial kickoff to summer.