A response to Geri Jensen’s July 24 letter. A fact is “a truth verifiable from experience or observation.” (Collins English Dictionary 2003) Love. It isn’t something that you can handle like a clock and examine from all sides. You can’t take a picture of it or take it apart to see how it works. Love has to be experienced to […]
Throwing good money after bad at golf course?
We have been reading the Cook County – Grand Marais Economic Development Authority (EDA)’s recommendation that more money be put into the Superior National Golf Course. We don’t understand the notion that we are going to add more taxpayer money to support a facility that we do not have the population base to support. Tourists are supposed to support it? […]
EDA must work toward economic sustainability
It is time for the Cook County – Grand Marais Economic Development Authority (EDA) to take on a more meaningful role in our community. First, the EDA should disassociate itself from the Superior National Golf Course so it can apply its resources to economic innovation, not golf course management. Secondly, the EDA should focus on making our local economy better, […]
Football season begins
I smell freshly cut grass and see the grass stains starting to accumulate. Football season must be right around the corner. While everyone is watching intently to see whether or not Brett Favre is returning to the Minnesota Vikings, I am looking forward to the start of another Cook County Viking football season. While I love the summer, there is […]
Sharing brook trout dreams with Sam Cook
Except for gray hair, Sam Cook looked much the same as he did 25 years ago when this writer interviewed him about a book he had written. After a quick handshake and hello I had to get something straight. “You realize we are going to walk, right? Probably a long way and not find any fish?” I said to Cook, […]
Wolf pups and Mother Nature
Thepup wolf population has really grown this year. In the past week I have seen multiple pups in different areas along the Gunflint Trail. I got tired of writing about the wolves that were basically living with us this past winter and here I am doing it again. I did a little research and found that pups are born both […]
Where are the fish biting?
Fishermen have been sweating it out on area lakes and finding some reward for their efforts, according to Jon at Buck’s Hardware and Tyson at the Beaver House. Tyson reports that walleye fishing has been “spotty” but anglers are having the best success using leeches with beaver flicks or spin floats. The lakes that have been giving up the best […]
