The Cook County Soil and Water Conservation District offered free nitrate testing of well samples at the Cook County Fair. Because of the interest in the testing, Soil and Water is offering another opportunity for testing. A free nitrate testing clinic will be held Sept. 20 – 21 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Cook County courthouse. Residents […]
Vikings beat Barnum in thriller 14-12
The Cook County Viking football team evened its record to 1-1 by beating the Barnum Bombers 14-12 at Barnum on Friday, September 9. Neither team generated much offense in the first half, and the teams went to their locker rooms tied 0-0. Midway through the third quarter junior quarterback Kale Boomer hooked up with senior wideout Dylan Quaife on a […]
Vikings meet their match
The Cook County Viking volleyball team had dominated in the early part of the season with easy 3-0 wins over Duluth Marshall and Silver Bay. Much of the success has come from the stellar play of young players Ali Iverson, Taylor Ryden, and Anna Carman stepping into new roles and replacing some very good seniors off of last year’s team. […]
Voyagers return safely from canoe trip to Hudson Bay
Four young adventurers representing Voyageur Canoe Outfitters: on the water for 77 days, covering roughly twelve hundred miles by canoe. Or by carrying canoes over portages. From Lake Superior to Hudson Bay. Greeted at the Northwest Trading Company’s very first post, York Factory, by a young girl with a 12-gauge shotgun— to protect her from the polar bears. The expedition […]
Girl Scout receives grant for reading system
As students get back in the school routine this September, those dealing with the challenge of dyslexia will find they have a little extra help, thanks to a determined Girl Scout and the Arrowhead Electric Cooperative Inc. Operation Round Up grant program. When Arrowhead Electric presented its Operation Round Up grants last summer, there was one larger-thanusual award. What is […]
Share Around a Woodsy Corner with your kids or grandkids
The idea for her children’s book Around a Woodsy Corner came to Marcy Bolinger after her grandchildren had visited her Hovland cabin. After a day of riding ATVs from Tom Lake to a bluff overlooking the Pigeon River, enjoying all the sights and sounds of the forest, Bolinger decided to capture the day for her grandkids. The result is a […]
Inventive Play
Kids are naturally creative and curious! These are important lifelong skills that sometimes get lost if not encouraged, but there are many different and fun ways to develop them. Often, with free-form creative exploration, a child finds his or her passion that eventually leads to a career or lifelong hobby. Challenge children to invent their own activities, games and toys […]
Teeny little particles flying underneath the North Shore
On any given day in the Northland, while tourists wander through gift shops, mothers wrestle children into grocery shopping carts, and coffee shop patrons hash over the local news, five scientists hunker down a half mile under the ground in Soudan, Minnesota, mining the mysteries of the universe. The scientists—particle physicists—take an elevator down into the old Soudan iron mine […]
Pagami Creek and the Forest Service
Monday, I thought, was going to be a much-needed rain day. The dry woods and my aching body could have both used a good soaker, but instead we were both let down. It was hard to tell if we were looking at smoke or rain clouds that morning and it turned out to be both. The clouds were barely visible […]
Where are the fish biting?
Tyson at the Beaver House said, “Nice lake trout in the 5-10 pound range were being caught in 70 to 100 feet of water” in Lake Superior last week, and pink salmon (pinks) have been caught at the mouths of Temperance and Poplar rivers, “and have just started biting at the mouth of Cascade River,” he added. “A 20-pound king […]