The Cook County Viking baseball team starts the season where? In the high school gym, of course, hitting off tees and taking batting practice in a cage in the corner of the gym. Why are they practicing in the gym, you may ask. It’s because in spring in northern Minnesota, the ground is still frozen and the field still has […]
Boys’ varsity tennis team loses to Virginia
The Cook County High School boys’ varsity tennis team traveled to Virginia, MN, Monday, April 18 to take on last year’s Section 7A champion, Virginia High School. This was the second match of the season for the young Viking team, while Virginia had already played four matches against other teams. The Vikings knew this would be a tough match going […]
Spring ice and wildlife
Spring has been threatening to rear its muddy face up here, but the lakes are not melting very quickly. Iron Lake is usually one of the first to show some open water and over by the snowmobile bridge; it is just starting to melt away from shore. This could be one of those years that Saganaga still has some ice […]
Scholarships now available for Forkhorn camps
Several scholarships are available for boys and girls wishing to attend this summer’s Minnesota Deer Hunters Association Forkhorn camps. Scholarship funds were raised through past banquets and sales of deer hides through Hides for Habitat conducted by the Arrowhead MDHA Chapter, Cook County. Forkhorn Camps I, II and III are offered at the Laurentian Environmental Center, Britt, Mn., and Deep […]
Cook County Law Enforcement briefs
It is the policy of the Cook County News-Herald to withhold the identities of individuals in Cook County Law Enforcement briefs. When court proceedings are complete, the Cook County News- Herald publishes a complete accounting of names and penalties in its Matters of Record. Monday, April 11 4:53 a.m., Grand Marais: Power outage reported on County Road 44. REA notified. […]
Conservation Officer Tales
Although the Cook County News-Herald knows that the majority of sportsmen and women are law-abiding 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 […]
Log rollers win in Wisconsin
Two members of the North Shore log rolling team traveled to New Richmond, Wisconsin on April 16 to participate in the first ever Harold Fischer Memorial log rolling tournament and came away with first place hardware. Wellesley Howard-Larsen and Lucy Shaw each placed first in their age group. Wellesley, age 11, won the 11-13 age bracket while Lucy, age 9, […]
Delisting of the gray wolf in Minnesota initiated
U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar has announced that the Department of Interior has taken the first step in the process to delist the Great Lakes gray wolf. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published a draft rule on April 15 to delist the gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act list in Minnesota and the western Great Lakes states. Publication of […]
