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. atSchroeder Town Hall, 124 Cramer Rd., Schroeder.
Green-up on Saganaga
It is so nice to be halfway through the month of June without any major threat of a forest fire. The few rain showers this week were slow soakers that keep everything wet and green. The leaves have been exploding from their branches and once again our home is no longer visible from the Gunflint Trail. Green-up is always an […]
Work to begin again on mountain bike trails
Under the direction of the Superior Cycling Association (SCA), work will soon begin on the single-track mountain bike trails in Tofte and Grand Marais. Once again Adam Harju will be in charge of construction and will work to add about two more miles of single track trails to Pincushion, and “if we get some money, add more single track trails […]
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 […]
Successful tree-planting day along the Flute Reed River
Sixteen Northern Bedrock Conservation Corps (NBCC) volunteers and one landowner planted 1,500 conifers – 1,300 white spruce, 100 white cedar, and 100 white pine – on eight different private properties in the Flute Reed River watershed in Hovland on May 25 and 25, 2013. This was Northern Bedrock Conservation Corps’ first project in Cook County. According to its website, the […]
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, June 37:04 a.m., Hovland: Deer struck by avehicle at mile marker 128.11:31 a.m., Grand Marais: Parkingcomplaint […]
