Cook County has three viaducts – over Highway 61 in Taconite Harbor – but no stereotypical homeless people are living in cardboard boxes underneath them. Cook County does have homelessness, however. Sometimes it’s called “couch surfing.” Sometimes it’s described as temporarily sharing living space. It can be called “housing instability” or being “precariously housed.” Two years ago, the Arrowhead Economic […]
Smash Mouth headlines exciting Retro Rock Revue Weekend
Clear your schedule to celebrate two days of the very best of ’70s, ’80s and ’90s rock at Grand Portage Lodge & Casino’s 2nd annual Retro Rock Revue Festival, Friday, June 29 and Saturday, June 30. On June 29, rock out under the big tent on Lake Superior’s shore with Thunder Bay’s The Hoolies, playing classic rock from 5 p.m. […]
“The Wolfgang” coming to Cook County
The Wolfgang, a Twin Cities-based ensemble with a Cook County connection, will be performing instrumental music from the time of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in a program entitled The Mannheim Connection at Bethlehem Lutheran Church at 7 p.m. May 19, and at 3 p.m. May 20 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Hovland. The program at Bethlehem Lutheran is a fundraiser for […]
Continue to “Move It!”
With recent warmer weather, it is time to think about “Move It in May” in the third annual “Get Active! Cook County” event. Due to overwhelming response, this year the program has been expanded to run the entire month of May. Also in response to feedback, changes have been made to the website to offer more resources, and to make […]
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Cook County AA Meetings Mondays: Open Meeting, 7:00 PM, Grand Marais Senior Center (1st Monday of the month is desserts and coffee at 6:30 PM and speaker at 7:00 PM.) Tuesdays: Big Book Study Group, Open Meeting, 6:00 PM, First Congregational Church in Grand Marais. Wednesdays: At Trinity Lutheran in Hovland at 6:00 PM Step meeting. Thursdays: Women’s Meeting, Noon, […]
WEST END CALENDAR
Tofte Town MeetingHeld the 2nd Thursday of each month, 7:00 p.m. at the TofteTown Hall, 7240 Tofte Park Road. 3/12tfnLutsen Township Monthly MeetingsHeld the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. at theLutsen Town Hall located at 116 Caribou Trail. 4/17tfnSchroeder Town MeetingsHeld the second Tuesday of the month at 7:00 p.m. Meetingsare held at Schroeder Town Hall, 124 […]
Northern Wilds featured at May Business Networking Luncheon
Amber Pratt and Shawn Perich, owners of Northern Wilds Media, Inc., will speak to the May Business Networking Luncheon May 30 at Chez Jude. Their topic is Starting your own business from scratch: How Northern Wilds Media came to be. The pair launched Northern Wilds magazine in 2004 as a quarterly intended to provide an extra revenue stream for Pratt, […]
Morning of gardening offered June 2
Where else but in Grand Marais will you find the combination of yoga, Art Colony pots for sale, and great container gardening information all rolled into a Saturday morning? Beginning at 7:30 a.m. on June 2 at the Cook County Community Center, Eleanor Hoffman, a retired English professor from U of M Duluth who has settled into her second part-time […]
Boys’ tennis team loses two, but gains experience
The Cook County High School boys’ varsity tennis team traveled to Virginia, MN twice within one week to play matches against defending Section 7A team champion, Virginia, May 2, and Eveleth-Gilbert, on May 8. The Vikings lost to Virginia, 5-2, and to Eveleth-Gilbert, 4-3. The CCHS tennis players have continued to show improvement throughout the season, but they haven’t been […]
Viking Scoreboard
Cook County vs Virginia #1 Singles David Bergstrom (CC) defeated Blair Seitz (V) 6-2,6-4 #2 Singles Lars Scannell (CC) defeated Mark Skube (V) 1-6,6-4,6-1 #3 Singles Pete Summers (CC) lost to Joey Skaudis (V) 6-1,6-4 #4 Singles Collin Berglund (CC) lost to Aaron Peterson (V) 6-3,6-2 #1 Doubles Justin Goldstein and Jamie Wick (CC) lost to Marc Krebsbach and Jordan […]