Community Calendar



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. […]

Say no to streetlights



In January 2009, then- County Engineer Shae Kosmalski introduced a plan to the Cook County commissioners to use federal Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) funding to install streetlights at a number of intersections throughout Cook County. The plan was to erect city-like lighting at six locations—four along Highway 61 where it intersects with the Cramer Road in Schroeder, the Sawbill […]

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CORRECTIONS:



In Cory Christiansen’s May 15, 2010 Tails from the Trail, it was incorrectly stated that Minnesota fishing regulation changes meant no walleye fishing would be allowed on lakes outside or partly outside the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) including all of Clearwater, East Bearskin, Magnetic, Saganaga, Seagull and Snowbank after March 31, 2010, with the same winter season in […]

Love is a choice



Le Ponts des Arts. Thename sort of rolls from the tongue. It shouts, “Paris! Paris!” in quiet tones that whisper of love and romance and starlit moments when lovers caress one another with longing eyes and unspoken words. At least, it used to. The Ponts des Arts is a seven-arch iron bridge that spans the river Seine in the heart […]

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 22, 2000 • Thequest to develop a park out of the Grand Marais harbor Standard Station is rolling right along. The first major stage of the project, purchasing the Gene Erickson property in downtown Grand Marais, was accomplished with the signing of the deed in February 2000. The property had been the site of the […]

Yes dear, we have a deer



When I was growing up in Schroeder we had a baby deer. Not the kind of deer you keep in a pen or a cage, but the kind of baby deer that decided he wanted to be our pet. He came and went as he pleased. He would run through the yard to meet my brother and me when we […]

Sawtooth Elementary Talent Show a lively affair



The fourth annual Sawtooth Mountain Elementary talent show was a rousing success, filled with singing, dancing, skits and even a karate demonstration. Kicking the evening off were Molly Thomas, Krissy Backstrom, Brooke Sherer and Taylor Hartung performing a well-planned choreographed dance to rock music. Because their music ended prematurely, they came back and finished the program with a full dance […]