Story Portage is a non-profit, centered in Ely, Minnesota, created to foster the art of personal narrative and to promote literacy and reading here in the Northwoods. Current and future projects include:
Ely, Minnesota Chapter of the League of Minnesota Poets
The Maud Hart Lovelace and Star of the North Children’s Choice Book Award Program
Random Acts of Poetry
VCC Visiting Writers Program
Visit our website and take a look at our current projects to learn more, and contact us if you’d like to be part of Story Portage’s future!
Story Portage
P.O. Box 286
Ely, MN 55731
Studio North – dance & fitness center is focused on providing high-quality service and customer satisfaction – we will do everything we can to meet your expectations.
With a variety of offerings to choose from, we’re sure you’ll be happy working with us. Visit our website and if you have any comments or questions, please feel free to contact us.
“Where Fitness and Fun Come Together”. We strive to offer a fully equipped state of the art fitness center. Certified staff focusing on proper technique and safety. A positive healthy environment creating a fun and fit place for everyone – ages 2 to 100.
Studio North is a full service facility offering a 24 hour fitness center with Cybex strength and weight training equipment along with a complete cardio area including upright and recumbent bikes, spinning bike, rowing machines, upright and recumbent ellipticals, stair stepper, arc trainer, several treadmills and an indoor walking track. There are full service locker rooms with showers and a sauna. There are three 55″ televisions in the cardio area.
Casual counter-serve chain for build-your-own sandwiches & salads, with health-conscious options.
Sustainable Ely is the home of the Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters in Ely, Minnesota.
Visit Sustainable Ely when you are in Ely to learn more about the Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters, the risk posed to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from proposed sulfide-ore copper mining and talk about your trip to the Boundary Waters. Our Ely staff and volunteers are ready and willing to help.
The Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters and Sustainable Ely are projects of Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness.
Sweet Fern Soap Company created products are long lasting, consumable made with high quality ingredients, in small batches and proudly made in Ely, Minnesota. Our products are inspired by the Northwoods of northern Minnesota and from travels around the world.
Ten Below Coworking is for residents, small businesses, startups, freelancers, and visiting professionals with flexible daily, weekly, and monthly memberships instead of extended leases.
In addition to flexible membership tiers, the office space is designed to enhance your workflow with high capacity wi-fi, and fiber-fast business internet allowing our members to maximize their productivity online.
Ten Below Coworking makes it easier to access your office securely with keyless entry using your smartphone to unlock the door at your convenience.
Try Coworking by Scheduling A FREE Fly-By to see and use the space!
Ten80 North is a marketing company specializing in web development, web hosting, branding strategy, and photo/video services. We help you plan and produce marketing that works. Our clients are often unsure of what marketing tools they should use and how to use them. Ten80 North gives you a plan, creates the marketing materials, and helps you use them to generate sales.
The Art Corner is an artist’s paradise located right on the main drag as you enter Ely. We carry a wide variety of professional and student grade art and craft supplies. The Art Corner’s goal is to inspire and nurture everyone’s artist within through their motto “Be Creative, Think Young.”
Visitors don’t expect a town as small as Ely to have the depth of art and craft supplies that this store carries. The Art Corner has gained a reputation as being “the place” to get what you need from metal leafing to Arches watercolor sheets. It’s where you can find brands like Golden, Daniel Smith, Princeton, Tim Holtz, and more.
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 in 1977 after she had worked for the paper for three years. At that time the editor was Bob Cary, a Chicago, Illinois writer.
The Echo has been fortunate in attracting excellent journalists, photographers, designers and artists during its existence. It prides itself in welcoming all sides of any issue. It has had a diverse group of employees over the years. Currently, ownership is shared by Publisher Anne Swenson (thepub@elyecho.com), General Manager Nick Wognum (elyecho@aol.com), Editor Tom Coombe (tcoombe@aol.com) and Ad manager Lisa Vidal (ads@elyecho.com). Together they bring over 100 years of skill, service and training to Ely’s hometown newspaper. Their familiarity with Ely’s rich historical past gives the Echo insight into the changing times along the Canadian border.
Since 1932, The ELY SHOPPER has provided the Ely area with a unique advertising media. Published every Wednesday, we deliver over 4,400 shoppers to Ely, Babbitt, Winton, and rural routes in the surrounding area. Whether you are a person selling your old boat and motor, a club announcing your next meeting or a downtown business announcing this week’s sale,
The ELY SHOPPER is “Where Advertising Pays.”
Business Display Ads, Personal & Business Classifieds, Flyer Delivery, Birthdays, Thank You Ads, Announcements, etc.
