During the past three or four football seasons, we have dealt with an over-used football field that produces weeds and a barren dirt center way too early in our season. By the time the playoffs start, we are playing on a dirt track with whatever remaining grass we have left on the sidelines. It is safe to say that we […]

Staff reports Despite foggy weather, the first Gunflint Hills – Lions Club Three Person Scramble Tournament on Sunday, September 13 was a great success. Over 60 golfers turned out to play 18 holes and take a chance at a $10,000 hole-in-one. The fog made the hole-in-one contest especially difficult, with Golf Course Manager Mike Kunshier helping golfers find the hole, […]

The Viking volleyball team was busy last week with back-to-back away games at Lake View Christian Academy on September 14 and Wrenshall on September 15, then after a few days of practices at home, they were back on the road traveling to Barnum to play in a tournament hosted by Barnum. At LVC, Coach Pam Taylor got a chance to […]

Well, Vikings fans, there’s really no way to sugar coat the 52-8 loss suffered by the Vikings at the hands of the Ogilvie Lions at Lyle Anderson Field, on Friday, September 18. It was a loss the likes of which hasn’t been witnessed or experienced by Vikings players and fans at Cook County High School for a long time. After […]

Stevie Wonder sang about it and he could not have been further from the truth—at least for this summer. July was cold, wet, and windy and now we are seeing some hot and miserably humid days in the last week of September. It is still better than the sleet and rain we are used to seeing this time of the […]