PLEASE NOTE: Your free event news can be posted on the Ely Echo newspaper’s Community Calendar. Send your info to: [email protected]. Ely Memorial High School will hold Winter Frolic activities this ...

Laurie Kantonen, Conference Superintendent of the Aurora Sky District of the United Methodist Church, Minnesota Annual Conference, has announced that it is the intention of Bishop Lanette Plambeck to ...

Our original plan had been to spend Saturday and Sunday in Crane Lake, but the weather forecast called for a change of plans. Again, the best laid plans of mice and men… So we took off Friday morning ...

One local township will have a contested election, and another will not. That’s the aftermath of a two-week filing period for upcoming elections in Morse and Fall Lake townships. Longtime Morse town ...

At the first Lake County board meeting of 2025 commissioner Rich Sve was again approved to continue as board chair, with Rick Goutermont acting as vice chair. In other organizational business 38 pages ...

There’s always something in the works. When you’re a creative person, that’s what you say, that’s what people say about you, that’s what people think. If you’re a visual artist, it is of course ...

Last year, for the 86th annual Laskiainen sliding festival, I helped bake 384 loaves of Finnish cardamom bread. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience, and so looked forward to another year of baking ...

A city council with two new members is settling in with new assignments and some division. Members completed a series of housekeeping tasks Tuesday, during their second full meeting of the new year, ...

St. Louis County has hired Shane Peterson to lead its Property Management Division. In this role, he will manage a team of more than 70 staff responsible for the maintenance and repair of county ...

The Ely Timberwolves got right back on the winning track. After a long win streak ended at the hands of Duluth Marshall, a state-ranked Class AA team, the high school girls basketball team rebounded ...

In fourth grade I had me a pal. He was at my house, or I was at his without either set of parents caring one way or the other about it so off the school bus we went, peanut butter sandwich and we were ...

The full moon casts aspen shadows across the snow-covered ground. At dawn, the sunrise draws attention to the horizon and the illuminated pines. Fresh animal tracks tell a story from the previous ...