FILMED IN ELY - The locally filmed “Boundary Waters” will have its Ely Premiere at the Ely Film Festival in March 2025. The Ely Film Festival will be March 12-16 and volunteers have officially selected 108 films for the 2025 Film Festival. To accommodate additional films and the same quality, they have added Wednesday showings to the festival. The traditional Opening Ceremony will still take place on Thursday, March 13 at 7 p.m.
BREAKING NEWS
- 'No one else would be treated like this in Minnesota;' long-held Twin Metals Minnesota state mineral lease is canceled
- Message to the Community - Unique opportunity
- Sgt. James Mondati coming home in October after dying in Bataan in 1942
- Walz visits Ely following announcement of temporary Rainy Rivers Watershed mining ban
- RAMS opposes Walz action to block mining in Rainy River Watershed
- Firefighter dies in Ely
- Forest Service reopens over 1,500 BWCA campsites
- Special session for economic relief from fires unlikely
- BWCA entry points reopen on west side
- Fall Lake and Fenske Lake Campgrounds set to reopen August 7
- Six running for Ely school board
- Fall school referendum would raise revenue, but not taxes
- USFS to re-open some entry points across BWCA as fires progress toward containment
- Cloquet Line will be reopened, changed from GO to SET
- Firefighters progress toward containment, BWCA set to slowly begin opening
- In St. Louis County all GO changed to SET except for three
- Fernberg property owners finally allowed to return home
- Help for local businesses impacted by fire, BWCA closure discussed
- Ely is “open for business”
- Mail will now leave Ely by 7 a.m. each day
- 20-year mining ban lifted
