by Assistant Secretary for Land
and Minerals Management Joe Balash

Dear Editor:

Another Ely business is slated to close, one of the two dollar stores, to go along with the Ely Bowling Alley.

There was a special Ely school board meeting on Monday that brought a reason to tap the brakes on two major initiativ

WINNER of the Ely Chamber of Commerce’s Jackpine Bob Cary Community Spirit Award was David Wigdahl.

We are fortunate to live where major rivers don’t threaten our community.

Ely suffered another blow to the local economy when Shopko announced all stores would close in June.

Letter to the Editor:

No one growing up in the last generation in Ely would have ever dreamed it could happen. The vanishing of St.

By Doug Hanneman

From the Mesabi Daily News

The debacle that is the U.S.

The Ely city council backed itself into a corner by begging a Tower newspaper to bid on printing the city legals.

The message was loud and clear yet the Forest Service didn’t hear it.

by Annette Meeks, CEO of the Freedom Foundation of Minnesota -