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. […]
Fear of sesquipedaliophobia
It probably won’t surprise readers of Unorganized Territory that I subscribe to a word-of-the-day e-mail list. There are a lot of such Internet services available. The one that I signed up for is MyWordaDay. I don’t remember when I signed up for the daily messages from VocabVitamins.com. But I’m glad I did. Each day I receive an entertaining message “to […]
Manna and Gratitude
When I go on a canoe trip, I like to pack a heavy food pack. Quite often the youth who go on a church canoe trip with me will remark about the weight of the pack, and maybe complain about my overzealous practice. I don’t apologize. It is just that I have been on too many trips with voracious teenagers, […]
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 · Dec. 18, 2000 • Officials from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources were in attendance last Tuesday to give the Cook County Board an update on proposed improvements at Cascade State Park. The plan, when completed, will spell out the envisioned uses of and improvements for the park over the next 15 to 20 years. Most […]
It’s high time for tea
As I began shopping for holiday gifts this year I thought of favorite Christmas presents I received from my parents when I was young. I still have two that I cherish. One is a Bentwood rocking chair given to me in about sixth grade and the other a bone china tea set. I was only nine. Thetea set was beautifully […]
Cook County Schools wins ugly chair contest
Tri-State Business Systems of Superior recently held an ugly chair contest – and the chair used by Cook County Schools librarian Shelby Anderson won! The school received a new, stateof the-art office chair as a prize, and it got to keep its ugly chair. “I’ve been here close to 20 years,” Anderson told the Cook County News-Herald. “When I first […]
Relationships
With the holiday season upon us, it seems fitting to focus on the importance of relationships with others. Building healthy relationships is one of several positive characteristics focused on in the book What Do You Stand For? by Barbara A. Lewis. It’s the seventh in a series of ten characteristics that can be developed in people of all ages. Forming […]