When I came into the office on Monday, Andy Brostrom, our “ad guy,” reminded me that this week’s issue of the Cook County News-Herald marks the anniversary of when our publishers, Hal and Deidre Kettunen, purchased the News-Herald. We have been producing the News- Herald in its current guise for one year now. Writer/Reporter Jane Howard suggested we have a […]

The path suddenly disappeared as I hiked up our spur from WindCradle to the Superior Hiking Trail. Where I had painstakingly cleared, spread sawdust, laid down birch edges…. nothing but a bunch of branches, twenty feet high. I scrambled around and found that a huge poplar had gone down lengthwise over the path, bringing down four or five other large […]

As the snowbirds leave for warmer climates, we have had several emergency phones returned to the Senior Center by our summer friends. If you are an emergency phone client, who is leaving Cook County for more than a month this winter, please call the Senior Center at (218) 387-2660 to discontinue service. You may return your emergency phone and sensor […]

I was carving pumpkins with my kids and my son, who happens to be named Jack, wanted to know why we call them jack-o-lanterns. Good Question! Did you know that the original Jack O Lanterns were originally made out of turnips? It’s true. No one is quite sure why the jack-o-lantern is called jack. But according to an ancient Irish […]