Employees at the freshwater lab were told they could leave their jobs or apply for a limited number of new jobs elsewhere in the EPA, and funding for an estimated 25 early-career researchers ended.
At virtual meetings Tuesday, employees were told to focus on wrapping up current projects and to download personnel files from their work computers, two people who attended the meetings said.
Radar tracks put Michael Bratlie, an experienced military and commercial pilot, just past Two Harbors, Minnesota, in his two-engine plane. There the flight path apparently ended.
Developers from Duluth and Brainerd want to transform the historic Silver Rapids Lodge into a resort featuring a new lodge, restaurant and bar, indoor pool, hot tub and tiki bar.
And the city attorney will issue an opinion on whether Mayor Chris Swanson's underwater hotel and cryptocurrency pursuits violated city code, charter and communication policy.
The backer of an underwater hotel in Lake Superior has been accused of bilking a widow with the promise of gold bars in a cave if he could just get enough money to hire a geologist to retrieve them.
While Grand Marais is a year-round destination, these colder months are certainly its more off-season time. This means lodging is less expensive and the town isn鈥檛 overflowing with people -- all pluses for me, as I was looking for a quiet and relatively inexpensive getaway.
