Cook County AA Meetings Mondays: Open Meeting, 7:30 PM, Grand Marais Senior Center (1st Monday of the month is potluck/speaker meeting. 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. 3/13tfn 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. 4-17tfn Schroeder Town Meetings Held the second Tuesday of the month at 7:00 p.m. […]
Want a four-day school week?
The educational institutions in our society are ever changing. We’ve gone from tiny one-room schoolhouses to massive brick structures with gymnasiums and lunchrooms; from strictly structured study halls to modular scheduling to on-line self-study. But one thing never seems to change— our schools never seem to have enough money. One of the latest proposals to save money for School District […]
True religion
People have opinions, in case you hadn’t noticed. I read an article this week about current Supreme Court justice nominee Elena Kagan. TheAP article by Tom Breen noted that if Kagan is confirmed there will be no Protestants on the Court and that would mean “none of the justices would be rooted in the Protestant Reformation traditions that shaped the […]
Historical Reflections
Do you have an old picture or a story from years gone by that you would like to share with Cook County News-Herald readers? Give us a call, or stop by our Grand Marais office. We’d love to hear your Historical Reflections. Call (218) 387-9100; e-mail starnews@boreal.org; or stop by our officeat 15 First Avenue West.
Down Memory Lane
10 Years Ago · May 15, 2000 • A helicopter model built to lift heavy machinery and buildings into war zones will be used to keep peace in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness this summer. The S-64 Skycrane helicopter, the largest lifting helicopter in the world, arrived in northeast Minnesota last Friday. The U.S. Forest Service has an “exclusive […]
What could be better?
Can a water bug be “perky,” I wonder, watching the lively little creature scoot across the lake surface. I am sitting on a sunwarmed rock on the shore of Lac des Mille Lacs. Lac Des Mille Lacs translates to “Lake of a Thousand Lakes” and is located in Ontario, about 70 miles west and slightly north of Thunder Bay. Its […]
CORRECTION:
In last week’s Meet the Class of 2010 we incorrectly wrote that Gavin Danfelt-Martin played basketball in his freshman year. Gavin played baseball. The News-Herald apologizes for the error.