Community Voices

Boozhoo Anishinaabedoog! Welcome to Anishinaabe Radio! Hosted by Erik Redix, Ojibwe Language Coordinator for the Grand Portage Ojibwe, Anishinaabe Bizindamoo Makak features Ojibwe first...

“Anishinaabe Way: Lives, Words and Stories of Ojibwe People”  explores the many facets of Ojibwe life.  As part of the series you will hear...

Michelle Schroeder is President and Lead Backpacking Instructor at Backpack the Trails LLC. Her “ultimate goals are to inspire others to believe in themselves and...

On the first Thursday of every month from 7-8 p.m. WTIP hosts a live interactive conversation on an issue of community importance. Guests are...

Kristin DeArruda Wharton is a Cook County resident and a current fellow with the Bush Foundation. In 2017, DeArruda Wharton approached WTIP with the...

Steve lives on the Gunflint Trail and his archived audio series, “Gunflint Notebook,” highlights life on the Trail. Steve has a knack for tackling...

Gus writes about our connections to Nature as he explores wildness from the High Arctic to his own backyard along the North Shore of...

I’ve Got Your Back is a monthly feature on WTIP’s North Shore Morning program where Dr. of Chiropractic, Stephanie Vos gives tips on how...

Dr. Arne Vainio is an enrolled member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and a family practice doctor on the Fond Du Lac...

Over the past years, WTIP volunteer Joni Peterson has interviewed many of the international workers that come to Cook County.  Joni asks them a...

Vicki lives on a 116 year-old homestead in Colvill that she and her late husband, Paul moved to from the Twin Cities years ago....

  “Mindfulness Monday” is a bimonthly feature by the Local Mental Health Advisory Council featured on North Shore Morning.     WTIP Community Radio...

Money Matters with Scott Oeth is a monthly feature on North Shore Morning. Scott is a certified financial planner and Adjunct Professor. He’s taught hundreds of...

Chel Anderson is a botanist and plant ecologist. She lives in the Hovland area and keeps close tabs on daily changes happening in the...

Deane Morrison is a science writer at the University of Minnesota. She authors the Minnesota Starwatch column, and contributes to WTIP bi-monthly on the...

Writer Jess Koski is a Grand Portage tribal member, an avid runner, forager, gardener, philosopher and humorist. He dispatches his “Jessays” from his home...

Of Woods and Words is a WTIP original feature, written and produced by Gunflint Trail resident Ada Igoe. Ada is proud to be homegrown...

On Pack & Paddle, we get the benefit of learning how to make our outdoor adventures more fun and safe from an experienced outdoor guide and...

Powering Down is a series that takes a look at Cook County residents who live “off the grid”. It explores their choices to downsize...

School News is a WTIP feature that airs during North Shore Morning and North Shore Noon Hour during the school year. Students gather news...

Sunny has lived off-grid in rural Lake County for the past 17 years and is a regular commentator on WTIP. She shares what’s been...

Christina Macgillivray’s production company takes her all over the world but her heart is firmly rooted in Minnesota, especially the North Shore. She wanted...

“Trail Time” by Marcia Roepke highlights events and phenology on the Gunflint Trail. Heard every other Friday on North Shore Morning

Grand Portage residents Julie and Jess Koski and their two dogs left Acadia, Maine on July 7, 2023 toward their final destination in San...

Local naturalist and retired teacher Larry Weber joins us to share his observations on what’s going on in the great outdoors. Tune in to...

There are many reasons for why people choose to live on the North Shore, but many young people are either born here or move...

Fred Smith, a native Iowan re-located to the wilderness of border country at the end of the century, has been writing of happenings in...