The Cook County girls’ basketball team entered the holiday season with a perfect 5-0 season record. Head Coach T.J. Super was looking for a tough test with stiffer competition and entered the Vikings into the Walker Christmas basketball tournament. The Vikings played very well in the tournament, winning their first two games against Red Lake Falls and Sebeka to advance […]

In its first tournament of the year, the Cook County Hockey Mite 2 team traveled to Cloquet on Dec. 19 and 20 to play in an eight-team event. The Mite 2s, coached by Paul Sporn and Steve DuChien, played three games against Cloquet Purple, Carlton and Cloquet Gold. Even though the team was 0-3 for the tournament, the games were […]

Out with 2009 and in with 2010. I never would have believed it when I was a teenager, but it is true, “the older you get, the faster time seems to go by.” If this is true, or even if it just seems to be true, why wouldn’t all of us want to live our lives with a greater sense […]

TheNew Year has brought new energy to a group of 16 hockey players at their home tournament in Silver Bay January 2-3. The peewees started this cold January weekend by taking on the team from Proctor. The solid defensive playing by Nathan Bauck, Troy LeBlanc, Carter LeBlanc and Justin Ketola as well as outstanding goal tending by Corey Napper kept […]

The Lutsen Mountains Junior Ski team traveled to Mont Du Lac Ski Area on Sunday, January 3 for race one of the Northland Junior Race Series. Competing in a field of 100 talented racers from the Duluth Superior Alpine Club, Arrowhead Alpine Club and Ski Gull Alpine Club, 21 young athletes from “Team Lutsen” attended this much-anticipated first race of […]

Bright skies and cold temperatures make for very few bites. I know a lot of people have been waiting for better conditions to bend a rod and I cannot say I blame them. The real dumping of snow we were supposed to get fell south and the temperatures plummeted into the minus 20s overnight, making for rough trails and bitter […]

Lutsen Area Pioneer Loop and Ridge Run are packed single tracked and should ski pretty well; the snow gradually deepens into excellent skiing on the northernmost portions of the loop. Deeryard has two classic tracks set on the entire system except short loop. It has about a 5-6 inch average base with the highest snow amounts on the southern portion […]