CCHS Industrial Arts Trust Fund to support modern workforce needs
The Cook County High School Industrial Arts Trust Fund doesn’t have a fancy name and the one who inspired it won’t let it be named after him, but it is in place and awaiting support from the community. Last November, the ISD 166 school board decided to establish a fund to promote the industrial arts program and gave Leonard Sobanja, […]
Open house to consider safety at Temperance River Wayside Rest
An open house at the Schroeder Town Hall at 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 11 will give the public the opportunity to view design concepts for changes to the Temperance River Wayside. Duane Lula of the Arrowhead Regional Development Commission, which is facilitating the planning, explained that there are some safety concerns at the Highway 61 wayside. Lula said the […]
USDA suggests grant application for city biomass heating plant
It’s hard to ignore a grant opportunity when the grantor is the one sending you the application. On March 28, Paul Nelson and George Wilkes of the Cook County Local Energy Project (CCLEP) met with the Grand Marais Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to discuss the possibility of the PUC being the fiscal agent for a biomass district heating plant grant […]
City Council hears parking lot concerns
City officials said they would sit down and meet with representatives of the Cook County Senior Center after hearing safety concerns about their shared parking lot at council’s March 27 meeting. Warren Anderson, chair of the Council on Aging which oversees the Senior Center, led the discussion. A number of Senior Center board members and staff also attended the meeting […]
Changing the printing odometer
Two very significant things happened at the Cook County News- Herald this week. Things that people may not even notice, so I’m going to point them out. I could play a little game like I did a few months ago with cartoonist Carson Haring’s Gitche Gitche Gumee bears—have you figured out the secret of the two bears yet? There is […]
We are not safe from Uncle Sam
In a Fox News (FoxNews.com) report March 21, Microsoft stated it is now for the first time reporting every six months the stats for government-sought information on emails. Microsoft states that in 2012 it received (mostly from the federal government) requests totaling 75,378. That could be you! Your mail is no longer private. It also states that Google only received […]
Economy true cause of mass shooting
Band-aids! Band-aids! That’s all they are, those recommendations for preventing mass shootings: background checks, banning assault weapons and big clips, more mental health services. When will people learn that “guns don’t kill people,” but people who are some combination of desperate, confused, lonely, alienated, bullied, unemployed, overwhelmed with financial problems, rejected, angry, no-future-in-sight. It’s these people most likely to go […]
Child Abuse Prevention Month reminder
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. The citizens of Cook County share a desire to make our community as peaceful and prosperous a place as possible. To move forward, we rely on healthy, functional families that nurture today’s children into tomorrow’s community leaders. Child development is therefore a foundation for community and economic development. Child abuse, maltreatment, and neglect can […]