Beaver Bay News

The remnants of last weeka s ice storm reminded me of the 1999 blowdown storm that swept across the border country.

Rain, turning to ice, stuck on trees up to 2 inches thick in places. Each branch, a big icicle with little icicles hanging down.

Reports Grandma Pat of rural Roberts, Wis.: "One of the joys of springtime has been watching little 15-month-old Lili experiencing the out-of-doors. "She learned to walk back in November, and thus has done pretty much all of her walking around inside houses, where floors are level and surfaces are quite predictable.

Line by line, pole by pole, electricity is slowly being restored to people along the hills of the North Shore, although hundreds remain without power.

On Wednesday morning, 1,000 Coop Light and Power customers were still without power after Monday's ice storm.

In some areas, the trees were weighted down by an inch or more of ice. As of Tuesday afternoon, power had been restored to most Knife River, Two Harbors and Silver Bay residents, but it was still dark in Beaver Bay and rural areas.

Cooperative Light & Power in Two Harbors says severe icing conditions have rendered much of its service area without power.

What was life like back in those simpler times of the colonies in New England? Find out this weekend and have a little sugar on snow treat at the Sixth Annual Sugar on Snow Celebration to be held at the Beaver ...

If you've driven Highway 61 north of Two Harbors you've experienced some bumps and sharp curves.

The roof on the Mary MacDonald Building in Silver Bay is leaking. But thata s not as bad news as it might seem.

By: Daniel Lancaster. Publisher: Holy Cow! Press, 173 pages, $14.95. Review: Lancaster's rich biography of the Ojibwe mail carrier also includes Indian legends and North Shore history.

Reports The Old Woodchopper of Eagan: "Our Northland has a plethora of sports and activities to partake in during the winter, but I think I saw a mostly unknown fringe winter sport the other day.