Members of the Cook County High School band participated in the University of Minnesota-Duluth Honor Band performance on Saturday, November 3. Seniors Colin Everson, Mara MacDonell, Luke Fenwick, Bjorn Johnson, and Sarah Larsen and sophomore Libby Zafft joined two bands with 200 students from 57 high schools from Minnesota and Wisconsin, performing beautiful works by composer/conductor Dr. Frank Ticheli. The […]
Addie Gecas Receives UW-Stout Scholarship
Addie Gecas of Grand Marais, Minn., received a Luther Mahan and Rita Mahan Christoffersen Endowed Scholarship. Gecas is majoring in apparel design and development. Scholarships valued at more than $580,000 were awarded to 303 UW-Stout students this year through the Stout University Foundation at a reception on campus Sept. 13. Many of the scholarship donors personally presented the awards. Established […]
Three Grand Portage students among scholarship recipients
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community has announced 52 new recipients of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Endowed Scholarship for the 2012-2013 school year. Three Grand Portage residents are among them. This is the fourth group of students to receive the scholarship at the University of Minnesota. Forty-five of the first three groups of 59 students will continue to receive the […]
Eighth grade Ojibwe class a milestone for ISD 166
Gashkadino-giizis – that’s “November” in Ojibwe, and it means “lakes freezing over month.” It’s one of the many words a group of Cook County Middle School eighth graders learned the first quarter of this school year. They were the first eighth grade class to take oOjibwemowin as part of the regular curriculum at Cook County Middle School. It was one […]
Buck’s Big Buck Contest
If you hadn’t realized it because of the all the blaze-orange-clad people in town and in the woods, deer hunting season is in full swing. Part of the excitement of the season is watching the board at Buck’s Hardware to see who is taking the lead in Buck’s Big Buck Contest. At press time Jeff Hughey of Twin Lake, Michigan […]
Waking up with the woods
November is traditionally a quiet time on the Gunflint Trail. Many residents take a much-needed vacation from the hustle and bustle of the summer season to relax a little before the snow flies. If I pass a car on the road these days I usually know who it is and where they are going. Don’t you just love small towns? […]
Conservation Officer Tales
Although the Cook County News- Herald knows that the majority of sportsmen and women are law-abiding folks, there are a few that run afoul of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Conservation Officers. Periodically, the DNR provides a report of some of the miscreants the Conservation Officers (CO) have encountered. The News- Herald shares these stories as a reminder […]
DNR releases initial wolf hunt numbers
Seventy-three gray wolves were taken over the first five days of Minnesota’s first wolf hunt held in nearly 40 years, 30 of them from the northeast zone, which encompasses much of Cook County. The season coincides with Minnesota’s firearm deer hunting season and is being conducted in three zones. A quota of 200 wolves has been allowed for those zones […]
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, October 296:25 a.m., Prisoner transport12:53 p.m., Person needs help getting to walker2:31 p.m. Dog bit maintenance […]
