Silver Bay News

A South Florida teenager was arrested early Sunday and accused of killing and mutilating the cats of his neighbors - a disturbing string of deaths that has horrified residents and shaken animal lovers in two Miami-area communities.

All-terrain vehicle riders are claiming a world record for their turnout Saturday in Silver Bay, on Minnesota's North Shore.

Renovation of the state veterans homes in Minneapolis and Silver Bay gained additional support Thursday in the form of $5.2 million in federal grants.

Minneapolis design firm Horty Elving is aiming to make veterans homes more like a oehome sweet home.a The firm, which last year won a national design award for a 140,000-square-foot skilled nursing project in Oshkosh, Wis., is working on a number of new construction and renovation projects for Minnesota Veterans Homes, a division of the Minnesota ...

Minnesota will get $3.9 million in a federal grant to help renovate the Silver Bay Veterans Home.

Assured the 2009 Legislature won't take action on Minnesota veterans home proposals, a Beltrami County task force prepared Saturday for a summer hiatus.

In a good community, neighbors help each other. That evidently happens in a good county, too.

Once a week, a little event takes place at a restaurant along the north shore of Lake Superior to honor those who served.

Minnesota is not prepared to care for many of its 400,000 military veterans who will need physical and mental health assistance in the coming decades, lawmakers were told.

Limbs of trees were broken by giant hands of ice last week. Many residents, especially in the Silver Bay area, did not receive power until days after the initial storm.

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

Despite the fact that "thousands" of tree branches were down, Two Harbors escaped the ice storm with a surprisingly small amount of damage, according to Tom Gelineau, public works superintendent.

MN5th NewsMinute,0264 Here is the latest Minnesota news from The Associated Press Bismarck , N.D. A major winter storm and ice jams are raising flood fears for Bismarck on the Missouri River , even as communities 200 miles to the east fight to hold back rising waters on the Red River .

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.

The American Red Cross plans to open a shelter in northeastern Minnesota after an ice storm snapped trees and powerlines, leaving thousands in the dark.

Emeritus College, The College of St. Scholastica's program for lifelong learners, will offer several courses throughout the region beginning in April.

The Lake County Board of Commissioners got a thumbs-up from Two Harbors' mayor Tuesday night during the test-run of what will be a monthly night meeting "I love this idea," said Randy Bolen Jr.

The epic battle against the grasshoppers is over. The Finns have won. St. Urho has triumphed once again in Finland, Minnesota.

Proponents of a Minnesota veterans home in Bemidji dona t have a site yet, but they know what they want to build.