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. […]
Testing the candidates
It is hard to believe that the citizens of Minnesota will be voting in the primary election in just over two weeks. If you are like me, you are probably trying to decide whom to vote for—especially for county commissioner. I live in commissioner district 3—the one with seven candidates to pick from. Having a lot of choice is a […]
CORRECTION:
In a listing of regular governmental meeting schedules on page C3 of last week’s Cook County News-Herald, the Cook County North Shore Hospital board meeting schedule was not quite accurate. They now meet the second to the last Thursday of each month at 9:30 a.m., not the third Thursday.
Between a rock and a hard place again
I was recently given the privilege of sitting in the pew at a family wedding. What a joyful, exciting, and meaningful event. The importance of a wedding in our society and throughout history is phenomenal. Whether the wedding is small and relaxed (as relaxed as a wedding can be) or the wedding is a media event, not much can detract […]
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 office at 15 First Avenue West.
Down Memory Lane
10 Years Ago · July 24, 2000 • Three well-known residents of the county have filed for the District 4 commissioner’s seat held by Wes Hedstrom. Hedstrom, of Maple Hill, did not file for re-election this year. The filers are Dale Bockovich, Gene Erickson and Carol Gresczyk. Walt Mianowski, county board chairman, is the only candidate in District 2. • […]
Summer Nights in the Neighborhood
(Watching children shriek and play on the lawn of a local lakeside restaurant last weekend evoked childhood memories of summer evenings in my old Minneapolis neighborhood.) My mother’s yard was full of flowers and rowdy, rambunctious kids. Not a likely combination, but it worked. Every summer night, the neighborhood kids congregated at our house to play games. Our large lawn […]
Sarah Groth earns dean’s list honors
Sarah Groth of Grand Marais has been named to the 2010 spring quarter dean’s list at Rasmussen College Brooklyn Park for achieving a 3.58 gradepoint average. In addition, Sarah was named to the dean’s list in the early fall, fall and winter (when she received an Honors Award for her 4.0 grade-point average) quarters. Sarah is enrolled in the business […]