Cook County AA MeetingsMondays: Open Meeting, 7:00 PM, Grand MaraisSenior Center (1st Monday of the month is dessertsand coffee at 6:30 PM and speaker at 7:00 PM.)Tuesdays: Big Book Study Group, Open Meeting, 6:00PM, First Congregational Church in Grand Marais.Wednesdays: At Trinity Lutheran in Hovland at 6:00P.M. Step meeting.Thursdays: Women’s Meeting, Noon, FirstCongregational Church in Grand Marais; Big BookStudy Group, […]
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Tofte Town MeetingHeld the 2nd Thursday of each month, 7:00 p.m. at theTofte Town Hall, 7240 Tofte Park Road. Lutsen Township Monthly MeetingsHeld the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. atthe Lutsen Town Hall located at 116 Caribou Trail. Schroeder Town MeetingsHeld the second Tuesday of the month at 7:00 p.m.Meetings are held at Schroeder Town Hall, 124 […]
Three games, three wins for busy Viking girls
Playing in front of a large, appreciative home crowd the Cook County High School Vikings girls’ volleyball team swept the Floodwood Polar Bears in three straight games on Thursday, September 13. The team is now 3-1 on the season and 2-1 in Polar League conference play. Floodwood falls to 1-3 and is 0-1 in conference play. Both teams traded points […]
Vikings see first season loss to Barnum
Barnum came to Grand Marais with its 0-2 record last Friday night and ground out a win against the 2-0 Cook County High School Viking team in what would have appeared on paper to be a mismatch. However, Barnum’s losses were close and came against Moose Lake and Cloquet, both much larger schools. The first play set the tenor for […]
Vikings move up at Eveleth Cross Country Meet
The Vikings headed to Eveleth for the big Eveleth Invitational on Thursday, September 13. All of the Section 7A teams, except Esko and Crosby-Ironton were there, plus Section 8 power Pequot Lakes. With a total of 18 teams present, we would get a very good early season picture of where we stood, both boys and girls. Our girls were especially […]
Where are the fish biting?
Jon at Buck’s Hardware Hank has this report… The season of orange has begun. Grouse hunters abounded and as predicted the beer cans were evident. I picked up my first three cans off the road on Sunday, one day after the opener. That’s what I like… predictability. Where have all the fishermen gone? It doesn’t seem like many came in […]
Cold snap
Brrrrr! It is down right cold this week on the Gunflint Trail with temperatures plummeting to the lower 30s. One morning there was even some light frost on the windshield of our vehicles. I finally got smart enough to cover the tomato plants with a tarp at night. It has taken me three years to produce tomatoes. You would think […]
Three locals race at Brainerd International Speedway
Three Grand Marais residents headed to the Brainerd International Raceway on Labor Day weekend for the 24th Annual Muscle Car Shoot Out. Hitting the quarter-mile straight track were Jessie Backstrom in a 1988 GT Mustang with a 347 stroke engine; Bev Wolke in a 1974 Barracuda with a 360 engine under the hood, and Rick Backstrom driving a Dodge Super […]
Conservation Officer Tales
CO Darin Fagerman (Grand Marais) reports not many grouse hunters out and not many grouse seen during the small game opener. Many people decided to get that boat out for one more time instead. The CO took an arson team call out to investigate a fire in northwest Minnesota. Enforcement action was taken for young children on an ATV without […]