Over the years I have enjoyed the gift of athletics in many different roles. As a young kid, I participated in youth sports like Little League and youth basketball and then grew up to play on the varsity football and basketball teams at Cook County High School. While my playing career was short-lived and fairly uneventful in college, I did […]
Michael Monroe to work with Great Expectations students
Great Expectations School has been awarded a Minnesota State Arts Board “Arts In Education” grant which will allow performing artist Michael Monroe the opportunity to work with students in a week-long residency beginning May 2. Grand Marais resident Monroe has been a state arts board roster artist since 2000 and has completed many K-12/college residencies in Minnesota and Wisconsin, his […]
Vikings have a couple of rough outings
With the weather in northern Minnesota still cold and windy, the Vikings’ baseball team traveled to McGregor and Silver Bay over the last week. First stop: McGregor, on April 19 with the Vikings bringing a total of 11 players, three of which are middle school students on the varsity roster. Many of the ball players couldn’t make the trip due […]
Viking Scoreboard
PitchingQuaife 6 IP, 12 R (6 ER), 13 H, 3 K, 3 BB, 1 HBPSjogren 5 IP, 4 R (3 ER), 7 H, 3 K, 4 BB, 1 HBPBoomer 2/3 IP, 9 R (7 ER) 4 H, 0 K, 2 BBBattingEverson 2×4, 2 SB Petty 2×3, 1 RBIKroska 1×3, 2 SB, 1 R
DARE speaker offers one more lesson for students
The Arrowhead Center for the Arts auditorium was crowded with excited fifthgraders and their friends and families on Monday, April 25, for their “graduation” from DARE—drug and alcohol resistance education classes. Cook County Chief Deputy Leif Lunde, who teaches the DARE classes, gave a welcome and an explanation of the DARE program. Lunde said DARE was developed in 1982 by […]
The honey-do list
The snow came again and melted away again in the matter of a week. This is such a bizarre time of the year. You can be painting outside one day and shoveling the deck the next. It sure feels like we have had the last of the winter weather, but you can never be too sure. The lakes are still […]
Get your Gunflint Green Up registration in by May 5
Residents and visitors to Cook County are invited once again to take part in the fourth annual Gunflint Green Up May 6 – 7 at various locations along the Gunflint Trail. Gunflint Green Up stemmed from the need and desire of all of us with a shared appreciation for the area to help nurture the forest after the 2007 Ham […]
Lutsen couple on North American odyssey
Dave and Amy Freeman of Lutsen have just finished up the third leg of an 11,700-mile expedition that will include six trips and take three years to complete. The Freemans, along with Ely residents Van Conrad and Ellen Root, recently finished a 900-mile dogsled, cross-country ski trip that began on the banks of the Mackenzie River at Norman Wells, Northwest […]