The Grand Marais Arts Festival kicks off on Friday, July 9 and continues through the weekend with an amazing mix of art, music, theater, and more. This year’s Arts Festival will offer 60 artist’s booths, live music with Michael Monroe, Briand Morrison and others, family storytelling with Rose Arrowsmith Decoux, a staged sword fight scene from the Grand Marais Playhouse’s […]
Library Friends will be at the Arts Festival this year
y Since Library Friends received some r especially nice art and art-related books n this year, we felt it made sense to bring d them before a group that could truly appreciate them. Naturally, we thought of d the Art Colony’s Arts Festival. So Library h Friends and these fine books will be for r sale at the Arts Festival […]
Who should be 2010 Citizen of the Year?
Once again the Cook County Lions Club is seeking nominations for two very special awards—Cook County Citizen of the Year and Cook County Senior Citizen of the Year 2010. Nominations are sought for individuals who have made Cook County a better place to live. Last year’s recipients were Citizen of the Year Dick Parker and Senior Citizens of the Year […]
Don’t argue—seek solutions
We enjoy reading your newspaper very much, but are getting tired of the arguing about views of God and attacks on persons and their brain power. So, I suggest that you and readers could focus on some solutions such as: Turning the courthouse rain garden into a victory garden to grow food. This could add to the memorial as people […]
World class pipe dream
Taxpayer owned Superior National Golf Course was a pipe dream that became reality. But the reality of pipe dreams is, they don’t always work out. Although the world class award-winning golf course has been in about every golf magazine, some folks want you to believe no one knows about the golf course or Cook County as a vacation destination place. […]
Searching for the truth
There is a parable about a boy who set out in search of truth. Knowing that everyone must find his or her own truth he began his arduous journey. He first entered the Valley of Never-Ending Voices. He could hear voices everywhere: voices from science, religion, and philosophy, thinkers and non-thinkers alike. Voices whose source for truth was often born […]
Bundles of energy—or a soul?
Children know they are surrounded by mysteries. A mystery is something not completely understood. Adults change these mysteries into possibilities from which they choose the possibility that either makes sense to them or enables them to manipulate the physical world to their benefit Adults are surrounded by theories that make our lives better but cause us to forget the mystery […]
Was LEED really needed?
Perhaps you noticed a half page article in the June 12th issue of the Cook County News-Herald. The article was a photo-op for Arrowhead Electric Co-op Inc.’s top two managers to show off the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) trophy awarded for the construction of their new headquarters in Lutsen. AECI’s managers and board spent $2.5 million dollars […]
Every day an adventure at Cook County Schools
The transition time between school years provides me an opportunity to reflect on the 2009-10 school year, and to anticipate 2010-11. Thispast school year was my fourth year as a principal, my first year as a PK-12 Principal, and the first year for our district to have only one principal. I learned as much as any student! I love being […]
Reminder for letters
Letters to the editor, columns, and cartoons are all the opinions of the contributors and not necessarily the Cook County News-Herald. While we encourage readers to submit letters to the editor on issues they feel strongly about, we ask that letters include name, address, and phone number. The Cook County News-Herald may withhold a name to protect a letter writer, […]