The Cook County baseball team lost a tough game to Silver Bay early in the week before getting a key win against the Two Harbors Agates. On Tuesday, April 20, the Vikings lost at home to Silver Bay, 10-6. Two days later in Two Harbors, Cook County won a closely contested game, 5-2. The Vikings are now 4-2 on the […]
Track opens at Polar Indoor Meet
TheViking track team opened its 2010 season at the Polar League Indoor meet at UWS on March 27. We hadn’t been able to run the indoor meet the last few years, since it has been scheduled during spring break. Ironically, the beautiful spring weather this year meant we hadn’t run indoors this year, something we did up to the end […]
Earth Day event a success
Over 75 people turned out to participate in cleanup on the Grand Marais waterfront on Thursday, April 22, the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Church groups, Girl Scouts, the Grand Marais Chamber of Commerce, North House Folk School, the US Forest Service, members of Harbor Friends and the Grand Marais Business Council lent a hand. Organizer Jim Shinners expressed appreciation […]
Vikings lose heartbreaker to Duluth Marshall
The Cook County softball team had a busy week of softball, playing four games in four days. TheVikings faced a wealth of tough opponents as they came up short against Silver Bay, 13-1; Two Harbors, 9-3; Barnum, 22-1; and then suffered a heartbreaking loss to Duluth Marshall, 14-13. The Vikings are now 2-6 on the season. Silver Bay On Tuesday, […]
New Beginnings
Dusty and Eric Nelms are proud to announce the marriage of their daughter Desiree Nelms to Richard Saari, son of Monica Saari and Homer Auge, of Beloit, Wisconsin and Rick and Sue Saari, of South Beloit, Illinois. The beautiful wedding ceremony took place next to the ocean on the white sand beach in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic on April 15, […]
Lives Remembered
Arline Marie Blomberg, 90, of Grand Marais died Sunday April 25, 2010 at the North Shore Care Center in Grand Marais. Memorial Service will be held 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Grand Marais. Arrangements by Cavallin Funeral Home. A complete obituary will appear in next week’s paper. Martha Irene Quaife, Martha Irene Quaife, 98, […]
Another reason to be unhappy with the NBA
I just watched the Ottawa Senators and Pittsburgh Penguins in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. At the same time I was watching the Chicago Bulls and Cleveland Cavaliers in NBA playoffs on another station. I was switching back and forth. In the fourth quarter (third period for hockey), the scores were close. In the hockey game, there was 5.17 minutes left […]
You are kidding, right?
In regard to the April 24 Cook County News-Herald story “More rain gardens?” Let’s make Grand Marais like Burnsville or any blacktop-concrete community and it will be so nice and be an example of progress we can all be proud of. I’m not proud of the mess that we made at the courthouse lawn Vets Memorial area. Theplanner and powers […]
Administrator is necessary
I read in the News-Herald that Commissioner Fenwick will further look into the issue presented by the county highway department for the purchase of radios for their operation. As stated, grant funds were involved. Why is he volunteering to do this? Thatis the job of the staff. His job, as well as the rest of the commissioners, is to legislate, […]
Bible teaches obsolete oppression
In response to Garry Gamble’s April 17 letter: About the “evidence supporting divine authorship” of the Bible: A document is not deemed true based on its claim to be true. Nor is the number of copies an evidence of truthfulness. The so-called thousands of “fulfilled prophecies” are often vague statements where many situations could fit the bill, a sort of […]