An important step in the assessment process is happening right now - county assessors are mailing property owners their annual Estimated Market Value (EMV) notifications. Some St. Louis County ...

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 Spring Fling ( Post Prom) for grades 7-9 ...

The Ely Echo will once again mark a year of growth and change on the area’s business front with its Progress Edition. The Echo’s 30th Progress Edition will be spread over two weeks and included in ...

The board of the Donald G. Gardner Humanities Trust voted to award $9,750 to individuals and arts organizations at its April 9 board meeting. “The Gardner Humanities Trust received 12 grant ...

From the Ely Echo archives of April 29, 1985. Barry Bissonette is pictured above fitting a pine slab bench into mortised slots chiseled out of one of the logs in his new landmark building, The ...

The 1980s were rather moribund times in Ely. Not long into the decade, Reserve Mining shut down and with it went hundreds of jobs in the region. House prices collapsed in Babbitt and school enrollment ...

I heard a cacophony of loud calls coming from the back yard this morning. I recognized it. It belonged to a raven and there wasn’t anything particularly different about it, except that it seemed ...

The ability for people to use motorized boats in select areas of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness will be the focus of a hearing set for later this month in a federal courtroom in Minneapolis ...

Ely’s librarian took several minutes at a city council meeting to tamp down rumors that apparently were fueled by social media. Rachel Heinrich assured council members that no program cuts were in the ...

EBCH Chief Nursing Officer Colin Yahnke talking to Ely Memorial High School students Lydia Shultz and Madison Jonas on how to stop a bleed. Ely-Bloomenson Community Hospital held a Healthcare Career ...

Last fall he hunted out of state for a whitetail, it was a bucket list hunt for him and so he ended up getting the only deer he needed about a month prior to me getting mine the final weekend of the ...

Head outside with only a light jacket or sweater in daytime temps above freezing. Ice remains on lakes, but creeks, streams, rivers and vernal pools show resound with splashing. Reptiles and ...