The (0-3) Cook County Vikings football team traveled to Mesabi East to take on the (1-2) Giants on Friday, September 25, in hopes of procuring their first win of the season, but instead fell to the Giants 40-14. The Vikings made some adjustments on offense with senior Brock Hommerding moving from his halfback position to quarterback replacing freshman quarterback Kale […]
Vikings continue exciting season
Another busy week for the Cook County Vikings volleyball team last week as they hosted the Barnum Bombers and traveled to Silver Bay to take on the Mariners. On September 22, the Vikings hosted the Barnum Bombers in an exciting home match. The Vikes came out on fire and seemed to stun the Bombers. Sophomore Ashley Deschampe served some stinger […]
Lots of personal bests at Milaca MegaMeet
When you go to the largest cross-country meet in the US, you rarely come home with any awards. This year wasn’t any different. Only Signe Larson and Sonja Peterson brought home top 25 awards (although Ailee Larson and Kieran Scannell were close). Our varsity girls had our best team place – eighth. Competition included five of the top 10 schools […]
Angry Seas
It was so windy this morning there were whitecaps in my coffee mug. Luckily I was driving back from Duluth and not persuading some customers out of fishing for the day. Saganaga is a great lake to guide on for many different reasons, one of which is your ability to hide behind islands and protected shorelines while still managing to […]
Cook County Law Enforcement briefs
It is the policy of the Cook County News-Herald to withhold the identities of individuals in Cook County Law Enforcement briefs. When court proceedings are complete, the Cook County News-Herald publishes a complete accounting of names and penalties in its Matters of Record. Monday, Sept. 21 2:34 a.m., Grand Portage: Report of a verbal disturbance involving a mother, her sisters […]
Conservation Officer Tales
Although the Cook County News-Herald knows that the majority of sportsmen and women are law-abiding folks, there are a few who run afoul of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Conservation Officers. Periodically, the DNR provides a report of some of the miscreants the Conservation Officers (CO) have encountered. The News-Herald shares these stories as a reminder to all […]
New Beginnings
Melissa Sue Kollodge of Andover, Minn. and Austin Wayne Riehm of Grand Portage are pleased to announce their engagement. Melissa is a 2009 graduate of St. Cloud State University with a major in hydrology. She is employed by Willow Brook Engineering in Anoka, Minn. Melissa is the daughter of Steven and Suzanne Kollodge. Austin is a 2003 Cook County High […]
Lives Remembered
Dean H. Detrick, 46, of Eau Claire, Wis. and Grand Marais, passed away Sunday morning, September 27, 2009, at Rochester Methodist Hospital in Rochester, MN, surrounded by his family. He was recently diagnosed with TTP, a rare blood disorder, and was receiving treatments at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Dean was born in London, England, on August 8, 1963. He […]
Bear baiting is not hunting
In regard to your September 12, 2009 issue – I don’t understand why your paper feels the need to show a photo of a live bear and next to it a photo of the same bear — now he’s dead. Bear baiting in general seems wrong to me. It’s not really “hunting” when all a baiter does is entice an […]