The young CCHS girls’ varsity tennis team traveled to Eveleth-Gilbert and Virginia on September 26 to again face a couple of stronger and more experienced tennis teams. The Vikings lost 7-0 to both Section 7A teams. The Viking girls have had a difficult time winning games this season because of their youth and inexperience, but they are gaining some valuable […]
Katrina Axtell takes part in summer learning program
Katrina Axtell, a freshman biology health professions major at Northwestern College from Hovland, recently participated in a program called Portage. The Portage experience focused on experiential learning in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) in northern Minnesota. Student participants canoed and camped in the BWCAW Aug. 9-18. The group also spent a day at the Grand Portage Ojibwe Indian […]
Cook County tennis alive and well
“This association does more with less than anywhere else!” That’s what U.S. Tennis Association Northern Division Executive Director Mike Goldhammer had to say to the Cook County Tennis Association (CCTA) at its annual banquet in August at The Landing. Of the 73 community tennis associations in the Northern Division, Goldhammer said, CCTA has more passion and commitment than anywhere else. […]
Where are the fish biting?
Jon at Buck’s Hardware Hank has this report: Up in Seagull a few are being found around 25 or 30 feet. They’ve been accepting a jig and minnow. Sag is reporting action at about the same depths. Try a jig and minnow here too. A little action over at Devilfish in 20 to 30 feet, again with a jig and […]
Bears cause problems at end of Gunflint Trail
Campers at Way of the Wilderness campground and staff at Wilderness Canoe Base have been startled—and frustrated—by some unwelcome wildlife recently. A pair of enterprising bear cubs and their mother have been finding their way into places they do not belong. Bud Darling, at Way of the Wilderness, said some campers at his resort received the surprise of their life […]
Moose tangles with fencing
Dee Brazell of Grand Marais set out to have a quiet cup of coffee on her deck at her home on Bally Creek Road at about 7:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September 20. Her husband, Mickey Brazell, had told her he had heard wolves howling and she wanted to hear them. Instead, she got a phone call from Mickey telling her […]
Grouse hunting on the Trail
Grouse season is upon us and there have been some pretty good hunting reports already. Early season hunting is not usually that great since the leaves are still on the trees and the birds are so well camouflaged. Even with the beautiful weather and thick foliage this past weekend, some of our relatives managed to bag a few birds each […]
Hudson Bay trip recounted
They said they cried only once and had only one argument in their threemonth trip to Hudson Bay. They said the trip exhausted them and exhilarated them, emptied them and filled them, pushed them and pulled them. They said a lot, Ann Raiho and Natalie Warren, when they addressed a packed, appreciative house at Stone Harbor on Friday, September 2. […]
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, Sept. 19 7:53 a.m., Grand Marais: A DNR game warden was contacted about an injured young […]