Ely Echo News Today

The Ely Echo is the weekly newspaper known as the voice of the North Country, which was founded in 1972 by Miles Aakhus. Ownership passed to Anne Wognum Swenson

By Nick Wognum

By Nick Wognum

We took in two films at the Ely Film Festival last week.

By Tom Coombe Echo editor

The northern Minnesota town has long been the epicenter of the state’s conflict around mining and the environment. Now, though, there’s a renewed effort in Ely to restart a civil discussion around long-standing divisions.

TOWER- For newspapers that mail thousands of copies each week, it’s not unusual that one or two occasionally gets lost along the way. But what was once an occasional errant newspaper has become …

Ely, perhaps best known as a gateway to the Boundary Waters, is celebrating getting frozen this weekend, “Frozen the Musical” that is. The local high school beat out fierce competition to be the only Minnesota community to get the rights to mount the hit show.

Marsnik re-elected chair, pay goes up with inflation, Echo official paper  

Marsnik re-elected chair, pay goes up with inflation, Echo official paper