Two teams of students have been doing a great job representing Cook County in the challenging Knowledge Bowl competition. Cook County has fielded a junior high and junior varsity team for the academic tournament. Twenty students in seventh and eighth grades took a 45-question test to determine who would represent the school. Congratulations to the team members: Joey Chmelik, Daniel […]
Make your own greeting cards!
Learn how to make your own holiday greeting cards in a two-day class at the Art Colony. Kelly Dupre, who each month provides the News-Herald with the delightful family feature, Whirligigs, will teach Holiday Cards Nov. 7 and 8 in a course designed to give students’ friends and relatives their very own handmade greeting cards. Students will learn how to […]
Wilderness Challenge 2009 a success
Once a year, when June arrives, Jack and Sarah Lieser pack up their big horse trailer and make a long trip to Minnesota from Texas. They enjoy escaping the Texas heat and look forward to the beautiful cool weather of Minnesota. The culmination of their trip is the Wilderness Challenge on the Gunflint Trail. On the way north, Jack makes […]
A taxing decision
Unless you’ve been living in a cave for about six months, you have probably heard a lot about the proposed 1% countywide sales tax. I can’t imagine that anyone in the county will open his or her mailbox in the coming week to find a referendum ballot and say, “Now what is this?” However, if you are like me, you […]
The Journeys of our lives: Volume 3 –
“Boboes and the Way of the Round-About”… continued from last week: TheBoboes entered back onto the pathway of Orgueil. Treufel and his assistants led the travelers onward into there new Land of “Unlikeness” for many days. Morning blended into morning and week into week. The weariness of travel was broken only by the pleasant fellowship that continued to develop among the pilgrims. Teufel’s approval for these […]
Down Memory Lane
10 Years Ago · Oc t. 18, 1999 • With little discussion and no debate, the Schroeder Township supervisors voted last week to return a $15,042 overpayment to the Cook County treasurer. Schroeder was one of three Cook County townships that were mistakenly awarded a total of over $55,000 in federal funds in March. County administrators said the error occurred […]
The Bear at Tucker Lake
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of writing for the newspaper, the following is a reprint of a column written about my adventures on Tucker Lake. In September 1969, Dick and I began our year on Tucker Lake. Our cabin had neither road access nor amenities. This is one of many stories about our lives during that special year. “Oh no,” […]
COMMUNITY CALEN DAR
Cook County AA Meetings Mondays: Open Meeting, 7:30 PM, Grand Marais Senior Center (1st Monday of the month is potluck/speaker meetings. Potluck at 6:30 PM and speaker at 7:30). Tuesdays: Big Book Study Group, Open Meeting, 6:00 PM, First Congregational Church in Grand Marais. Wednesdays: 12 Step Study Meeting, 6:30 PM, Arrowhead Electric Co-op building, Lutsen. Thursdays: Women’s Meeting, Noon, […]
WEST END CALENDAR
Tofte Town Meeting Held the 2nd Thursday of each month, 7:00 p.m. at the Tofte Town Hall, 7240 Tofte Park Road. 4/18tfn Lutsen Township Monthly Meetings Held the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. at the Lutsen Town Hall located at 116 Caribou Trail. 3/22b-tfn Schroeder Town Meetings Held the second Tuesday of the month at 7:00 p.m. […]