On Monday evening, December 19, a support team gathered with jurors of the trial that ended with the tragic shooting in the Cook County Courthouse. In light of the difficult circumstances in which those jurors ended their service, Judge Munger decided to give jurors an order exempting them from future jury service. We recognize the importance of jury service in […]
Front page should have been more positive
I just finished going through the December 24, 2011 Cook County News-Herald again, thinking I missed the Christmas cheer the first time. While it is a newspaper’s job to report the news, I was disappointed to see nothing but the courthouse incident on the front page, especially in the issue coming out at Christmas time. Shouldn’t we be seeing pictures […]
Neo-Luddites among us
“The government is us”? Nice bumper sticker Jerry, but hardly a commonly held belief. Lucky me…another derisive letter last week from Mr. Hiniker…again I find myself scrambling through my “outdated” reference books. Jerry’s 1970s simplistic definition of the word “Luddite” barely scratches the surface of what that labor revolt during England’s industrial revolution entailed. I would suggest that Mr. Hiniker […]
Murphy’s Law and miracles
Christmas and New Year’s Eve can be difficult. That is evidenced by quiet celebrations such as the First Congregational Church’s “Blue Christmas” service, held to lift up and encourage those who were feeling blue during the holidays. It has been an exceedingly difficult Christmas for everyone involved in the courthouse shooting on December 15. Friends and family of all involved […]
Church Services Schedule
Bay Area Vineyard in Grand Marais Where friends become family Cook County Community Center /4-H Building 6: 00 p.m., 2nd and 4th Sundays All welcome. Come as you are. Great worship, coffee and fellowship. Pastors Gerry and Shelley Cheney BETHLEHEM LUTHER AN (ELCA) 1st Ave. W. & 5th St., Grand Marais . 387-2227 Sunday 10:00 a.m. worship; coffee & fellowship […]
Bakk hosts food shelf benefit with governor, Vikings’ Jared Allen
Senator Tom Bakk, DFL-Cook, hosted a 5th annual hunger relief fund drive with special guests Governor Mark Dayton and the Vikings’ Jared Allen at The Liffey Irish Pub in St. Paul on December 7. This annual “Stock the Shelves” event raises proceeds dedicated to Arrowhead regional food. Senator Bakk works with Hunger Solutions Minnesota on this event. He said, “Due […]
Down Memory Lane
10 Years Ago · Dec. 31, 2001 A 14-acre tract of land that was supposed to be protected from logging was cut after officials from the Superior National Forest mistakenly sold the wood to an area logger. The sale, about one mile off the Sawbill Trail, was part of a 3,900-acre Crescent Lake salvage timber area that was devastated by […]
