Cook County Higher Ed will be offering a basic math course for adults and high school students who would like to review and strengthen their math skills. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, decimals, fractions, percentages, estimation, simple geometry, and measurement problems will be covered. The class will meet six Thursday evenings from 6 – 8 p.m. at the North Shore Campus […]
Why can’t we all agree…?
Why can’t all the residents of Cook County (and non-residents) agree not to dump unwanted trash, including glass, plastic, steel and aluminum cans, TVs, computer monitors, cardboard, and many other items in local gravel pits and along roads, streams and forests? A significant proportion, but by no means all, of the “trashing” in gravel pits comes from…ah, what shall we […]
No need for supernatural metaphor or intermediary
In response to three recent letters to the editor: To Chuck Flickinger, August 7, 2010 You ask what authority? Freethinkers/atheists rely on science, reason, and its methods, not a singular authority. No tyranny! New findings can amend an accumulative body of knowledge. An authoritarian Biblical position can be resistive to the discoveries made using science and reason. Eyewitnesses? Recent evidence […]
Book sale offers more than books
The recent Library Friends of Cook County community book sale is another success for all concerned. Kudos to Ina Sinkeldam and her capable volunteers for a job extremely well done. As I viewed the tables loaded with hard and soft cover books, magazines, videos, DVDs, audio cassettes and children’s texts, I was filled with gratitude that these items would be […]
Spray Paradise?
If you were planning to hike, trail ride or hunt in the Hovland area this fall, you might consider postponing your plans for a year…maybe two. TheDepartment of Natural Resources Two Harbors office will be contract spraying herbicide by helicopter on about 400 acres of pine plantings through mid September. TheOtter Lake Road and Andy Lake Road areas of the […]
Lives Remembered
Gerald Ayers Eisler, died Aug. 23, 2010 at the North Shore Care Center in Grand Marais. He was born in 1921 to George and Laura Ayers Eisler of Reston, Manitoba, Canada. Jerry, the youngest of five children, grew up on a farm in rural Reston. As a young farm boy, Jerry, alongside his father and brothers, learned to work the […]
Stars win Ice Cup trophy
Three local skaters helped the ‘96 Lake Superior Stars take home the Duluth Ice Cup Tournament championship trophy on Sunday, August 8. After posting a 2-0-1 record in round-robin play, the Stars entered the championship game as a clear underdog to Minnesota Legacy, who had embarrassed them 13-1 in a tournament game last May. The Stars hit the ice determined […]
What we could learn from Tiger Woods
Of all the sports stories in the recent past, it would be hard to argue that Tiger Woods’ downfall isn’t the largest of all sports-related stories. It is too bad that someone’s moral downfall is a huge story, but people in America love to see people fall as much as they love to see the underdog win. If you don’t […]
Young Vikings hit the gridiron
The Cook County football team started practice on Monday, August 16. This year’s squad consists of 31 young men in grades 9-12. Of the 31 players on the team, 17 are either freshmen or sophomores. Despite their youth, the coaching staff is very optimistic about this year’s team. In addition to 17 freshmen and sophomores, the Vikings have four seniors […]
Varsity tennis practices begin; first match set for Sept. 1
Any girls in grades 7-12 who are attending Cook County MS/HS or being home-schooled are invited to be a member of the first-year girls’ varsity tennis team this fall. Practices and matches are being scheduled so they won’t conflict with other school sports, for those interested in participating in more than one sport. Official practices began Aug. 16, and will […]