Minneapolis- based nonprofit news site MinnPost.com is spending a year in conversation with young people in rural communities all over the state. The goal is to understand the vast and diverse range of issues young people face in the Arrowhead. MinnPost reporter Jeff Severns Guntzel will be at Cook County Higher Education’s North Shore Campus in Grand Marais on Thursday, […]
Alpine skiers tackle Montana mountains
Varsity alpine ski season wrapped up rather early–on February 16 this year. Members of the Cook County/Silver Bay alpine ski team weren’t ready to quit, so 17 ski team members, parents and siblings took a trip to the mountains near Bozeman, Montana during winter break February 19-24. Snowboarders were invited and even some of the team members and parents were […]
Viking girls progressing through playoffs
As expected, the Cook County girls’ team had little trouble with the Wrenshall Wrens on Thursday, March 3, winning 88-19. The game was played in Duluth on a neutral court. The Wrens came out fired up, taking a 3-0 lead over the Vikings, “But then we went on a nice 50-0 run to put the game away,” said Head Coach […]
Season ends in semifinal game
The Cook County girls’ spectacular basketball season ended on Wednesday, March 9, in Hibbing in a Section 7A semifinal game against Mountain Iron-Buhl (MIB). The morning after the game Head Coach T.J. Super said, “It was the worst day of the year. It always feels like this when you lose.” Super felt bad for his players and fans. His squad […]
Polar League recognition for Bergstrom, Martinson
Cook County junior guard David Bergstrom was voted to the 2011 second team all conference for the Polar League, and senior guard Ryan Martinson was voted Honorable Mention All-Conference. Although no Viking made first team, Silver Bay’s Luke Thun was given that honor. Esko’s guards Jake Stainbrook and Jackson Lindquist and McGregor’s Zerek Marsyla joined him. Moose Lake’s Trevor Nummela […]
Three Viking girls earn all-conference honors
The Polar League was loaded with great basketball players this year, so it was especially gratifying to see that only Cook County landed two girls on the all-conference first team with another named honorable mention. “Having three girls on the all-conference team for the second year in a row is a nice accomplishment. To have two girls on the first […]
Winter wildlife
We started getting a little more snow again this week and the temperatures have been just cold enough to keep it from melting. It would be a good year to start spring with high water and it will take a lot more snow to make that happen. I remember many years in the past when it started raining in May […]
Happy Trails
Gunflint Trail/Cook County Ridgeriders Forrest of Hungry Jack Lodge reports on March 3 that current conditions are still holding up pretty decent, and grooming is still being done on a regular basis. “We did receive about 1-2 inches of snow last night. We could still use a little more to get the trails back to the condition they were earlier […]
Where are the fish biting?
Jon at Buck’s has this report for the week of March 7: I have a few lakes to talk about this week but there haven’t been too many people out, so I haven’t heard many reports. People were heading up to Kemo Lake and picking up some lake trout. Using a jig or spoon tipped with a minnow, they were […]
Conservation Officer Tales
Although the Cook County News-Herald knows that the majority of sportsmen and women are lawabiding folks, there are a few that run afoul of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Conservation Officers. Periodically, the DNR provides a report of some of the miscreants the Conservation Officers (CO) have encountered. The News-Herald shares these stories as a reminder to all […]