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Arrowhead Cooperative Annual Meeting and Scholarship Grants

Arrowhead Cooperative has released its Annual Report to members and will hold its 2025 Annual Meeting on Thursday, June 12, at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts in Grand Marais. Registration opens at 3:00 p.m. The annual report contains a coupon that will earn members a credit of $10 for a future bill if they bring it to the meeting.

Rylan Brown, recipient of the 2025 Arrowhead Cooperative scholarship.

Co-op leadership will report to the members on results from the past year and plans to con­tinue a high level of service to members in the coming year and beyond. Members can vote in director elections. The deadline for ballots is 1:00 p.m. on June 12, or they may be turned in at the meeting.

In other news, Arrowhead Cooperative an­nounced the recipients of its 2025 scholarship program for graduating seniors. Two $500 scholarships were awarded to Tucker Ber­glund and Rylan Brown, two 2025 graduating Cook County High School seniors.

The scholarships are intended to support the graduates’ pursuit of higher education at a college or technical school. In its June news­letter distributed to all members, the Cooperative wrote, “This annual tradition reflects our commitment to supporting the communities we serve—one of the seven core principles of the cooperative model.”

Arrowhead Cooperative is a member-owned electricity and broadband provider in Lutsen, MN. It started in 1953 after the closure of Lutsen Power & Light, a pioneer in bringing electricity to local businesses and residents on the North Shore.

Steve Fernlund
Steve Fernlund
Typically these “about me” pages include a list of academic achievements (I have none) and positions held (I have had many, but who really cares about those?) So, in the words of the late Admiral James Stockwell, “Who am I? Why am I here?” I’m well into my seventh decade on this blue planet we call home. I’m a pretty successful husband, father, and grandfather, at least in my humble opinion. My progeny may disagree. We have four children and five grandchildren. I spent most of my professional life in the freight business. At the tender age of 40, early retirement beckoned and we moved to Grand Marais. A year after we got here, we bought and operated the Cook County News Herald, a weekly newspaper in Grand Marais. A sharp learning curve for a dumb freight broker to become a newspaper editor and publisher. By 1999 the News Herald was an acquisition target for a rapidly consolidating media market. We sold our businesses and “retired” again, buying a winter retreat in Nevada. In the fall of 2016, we returned to Grand Marais and bought a house from old friends of ours on the ridge overlooking Lake Superior. They were able to move closer to family and their Mexico winter home. And we came home to what we say is our last house. I’m a strong believer in the value of local newspapers--both online and those you can wrap a fish in. I write a weekly column and a couple of feature stories for the Northshore Journal. I’m most interested in writing about the everyday lives of local people and reporting on issues of importance to them.
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