The Cook County Chamber of Commerce and the Cook County Community YMCA are joining forces to sponsor “Shop Local Saturday” on Nov. 30, which is the Saturday following Thanksgiving and the day after big-box retailers’ Black Friday event. “This idea came up late, so we need to put together a simple, effective program as quickly as we can,” said Jim […]
Veterans Day ceremonies set for Monday
The public is invited to join veterans for ceremonies and remembrances on Veterans Day, Monday, Nov. 11. In Grand Portage, the flag will be raised at daylight at the Veterans Monument at the log school. At 10:30 a.m., a drum ceremony will begin at 10:30 a.m. at Grand Portage Bay American Legion Post 2009 followed by a moment of silence […]
Make your own ornaments at Art Colony Nov. 16
Add color and light to your holiday season with your own glass holiday ornaments! A one-day ornament-making class will be held at the Grand Marais Art Colony studio from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 16. Nancy Seaton will instruct on experimentation with colored glass, frit, and kiln-carving. The kiln-carving technique uses shapes cut with scissors from fiber paper. The […]
Empty Bowls soup feed is Nov. 14
Empty Bowls Soup Lunch and Dinner will be here Nov. 14. This is the single-largest fundraiser for the local food shelf and last year served soup to 510 people, raising $6,905. This year’s Empty Bowls Lunch and Dinner and silent auction will be held Nov. 14 at St. John’s Catholic Church. Lunch will be served from 11 a.m. to 1 […]
Community Calendar
Benefit for Donny BrazellAmerican Legion, November 23, 2013, 4 – 8 p.m.Spaghetti dinner with Bobby Don’s secret recipe, doorprizes, silent auction and raffle items. Music by CookCounty’s Most Wanted – 8 p.m. Donny is undergoingtreatment for stage 4 colon cancer. Join us to showDonny and his family how much we care duringthis difficult time. Donation tickets – $10. For moreinformation, […]
DNR expects good deer hunting
Deer hunting should be good when Minnesota’s firearms hunting season opens Nov. 9. That’s the word from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR), whose biologists report deer populations are stable across much of the state. “Minnesota’s deer population is largely stable in the southern half of the state because of mild winters and generally conservative deer management,” said Leslie […]
Deer Hunters Association accepting deer hides
The local Arrowhead Chapter of the Minnesota Deer Hunters Association is collecting deer hides again this year during the rifle hunting season. Money raised from the sale of hides is used for youth hunter Forkhorn Camp scholarships and local habitat improvement projects. This summer five local boys and girls were given scholarships to attend a Forkhorn Camp. This year bright […]
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 to all […]
The “Off Season”
It is hard to fully appreciate the changing of seasons in northern Minnesota without witnessing the daily and sometimes subtle transformations. The earth begins to harden with frost while the lakes become covered in ice. Many of the birds migrate south while a few other birds migrate here for the winter—and the sun does not shine every day. Houses creak […]
Three Viking runners earn All-Conference awards
The Polar League recently announced its 2013 boys’ and girls’ cross country All-Conference teams, and three Vikings were named. For the boys’ team, Joey Chmelik, a senior from Grand Marais, and Kiviok Hight, an eighth-grader from Two Harbors, were named to the All-Conference team. Audrey Summers, a senior from Grand Marais, was named to the girls’ All-Conference team. While most […]