The City of Crookston is seeking individuals willing to serve as election judges at the 2016 General Election (November 8th). Election judges are reimbursed for their time. For questions or to obtain an application form, please contact Angie Menge or Angel Weasner at 218-281-4503.
At 209 meters below sea level, it is the lowest freshwater lake on Earth, and the second lowest lake in the world after the Dead Sea, a saltwater lake. It is not a real sea - it is called a sea because of tradition. The lake is also known on modern maps as Lake Galilee or Lake Tiberias, in the region of Galilee. In modern Hebrew, it is known as Yam Kinneret (info â¢ help) (×× ×× ×¨×ª), Sea of Kinnereth (Numbers 34:11; Joshua 13:27).
Originally part of an ancient, much larger lake that extended to the Sea of Galilee, its outlet to the sea evaporated some 18,000 years ago, leaving a salty residue in a desert basin at the lowest point on earthâ1,300 feet below sea level.n 1947, Bedouin shepherds, searching for a stray goat in the Judean Desert, entered a cave at Qumran near the north shore of the lake and discovered clay jars containing 2,000-year-old scripture written in Hebrew, Greek and Aramaicâthe Dead Sea scrolls.