Anyone who has ever wondered what it would be like to grow up in a Northwoods resort family now has a chance to find out. Timothy McDonnell, the third of Pat and Bette McDonnell’s six children, has written a memoir about growing up at Gateway Lodge called The Whole Forest for a Backyard: A Gunflint Trail Wilderness Memoir. “All of […]

When Ryan Petz graduated from Cook County High School in 2001, he had no idea that he would one day be the president of a highquality craft beer-making company. As a highly recruited football player, the 6’4” 270-pound Petz went to St. John’s College and played four years under legendary coach John Gagliardi. Petz attended St. John’s from 2001 to […]

Sophomores, juniors, and selected seniors at Cook County High School had the opportunity to attend the “Pathway to Careers” event held at the DECC in Duluth on October 29. The event started with a catered breakfast for the approximately 1,500 students traveling from the Northeast Minnesota area. Students attended breakout sessions in the career clusters of healthcare, manufacturing and trades, […]

Cook County Higher Education (CCHE) was honored to receive $2,555 funding assistance from the North Shore Health Care Foundation to upgrade laptop computers and the computer lab, which predominantly serve health care students. CCHE is using this grant opportunity as an outreach service, donating at least seven of CCHE’s current PC systems to distance learning students, replacing those units with […]

Students, former students, colleagues and community members came to celebrate the dedication of the Mark Abrahamson Classroom at the Cook County Higher Education (CCHE) North Shore campus on Saturday, December 7, 2013. The evening included a tour of the campus and the lower level nursing lab classroom where Abrahamson has been serving as the instructor for all of the Higher […]