Mark Scotch is living proof that someone can donate an organ and continue to not just be active but be an extreme ultra marathon athlete. Scotch, 66, will compete by bike in the 2022 Arrowhead 135 ultra-race, which starts with fireworks at 7 a.m.
Friday, January 28 15 years ago Between its birth and the evolution of today’s Major League baseball were the glory days of small town baseball. The golden era of the amateur game from 1945 to 1960 is described as a “magical time of outstanding ball playing attended by record-breaking crowds” in the recently released “Town Ball: The Glory Days of Minnesota Amateur Baseball.” Borderland’s team of that era was called the International Falls “Mandos,” an acronym for its sponsor, the Minnesota and Ontario Paper Company which was originally owned by baseball zealot E.W.
Last July a tiny kitten was discovered on the steps of a church in Ada, Minn. The people who found it could see it was sick and needed help. They contacted Paws and Claws and took it to the nearest vet clinic, all the way to Fargo, N.D.
Mighty Mustang Wrestling has returned to action from a new location, with a focus on the basics and led by some old and new faces. The youth program is now being offered from Backus Community Center basement, with Jeremy Mann returning as head coach, along with newcomer Jared Loberg.
International Falls school officials are testing every student with any COVID-19 symptom or sending that student home for 10 days of quarantine. Falls Superintendent Kevin Grover told the Falls School Board Jan.
Photographer David Johnson may have interrupted this lynx taking a cat nap in the sunshine and snow. .
A misunderstanding between Koochiching County DFL Chairman Joe Boyle and the Rainy Lake Gazette editor may have created confusion about the Feb. 1 DFL caucuses.
The Paul Bunyan Drug Task Force last week released a fourth quarter 2021 snapshot of activities. The following are the incidents in October, November and December that involved Koochiching County. A complete quarterly snapshot posting at www.co.beltrami.mn.us/pbtf
CWD is a contagious neurological disease that affects cervids – deer, elk, moose, reindeer and caribou. There is no cure or vaccine, and the disease always is fatal. It causes the brain of the infected animal to deteriorate, which eventually results in emaciation, abnormal behavior, loss of bodily functions and death. CWD is a prion disease and is in the same family as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease), scrapie (sheep) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (humans).
The Minnesota Department of Revenue has opened the state individual income tax filing season. It coincides with the Internal Revenue Service’s federal filing period.