Decision on open lunch policy postponed until April
The February 20, 2014 School District 166 School Board meeting took place as scheduled a few hours ahead of the latest impending snowstorm. A reminder was made that there will be school on Friday, April 11 if school is closed due to weather the next day on Friday, February 21. As expected, school was closed the following day. Open lunch […]
Commissioners ask MDA to not enact gypsy moth quarantine
The Cook County commissioners room was crowded on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014 as about 35 community members gathered to learn more about a proposed Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) quarantine of Cook and Lake counties in the effort to slow the spread of the gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar dispar). Lucia Hunt, gypsy moth unit supervisor and Alan Sommerfeld, senior communications […]
Isle Royale wolf found dead by Grand Portage girl
An 11-year-old Grand Portage girl discovered a famous Isle Royale radio-collared wolf dead on the shore of Lake Superior near her home on Grand Portage Bay on February 8, 2014 and her discovery caused a national stir because of the wolf ’s significance. Alyssa Spry was outside playing on a cold Saturday when she found the wolf on the frozen […]
Moratorium on LED illuminated signs nixed by County Board
When a Lutsen business owner approached the Cook County Planning Commission at its January 2014 meeting with a request to amend his business’s 2007 conditional use permit (CUP) to modify his internally illuminated sign—with LED bulbs—Cook County Planning & Zoning Administrator Bill Lane raised the question of whether or not LED technology is addressed in the current county sign ordinance. […]
A weather mystery
I may seem to be a broken record, talking about the weather again. But I just drove home from a late night at the News-Herald office and noticed that the thermometer in my car was recording minus 15 degrees. And that is not factoring the wickedly howling wind. The “Polar Vortex” appears to be back. But weather is on my […]
U.S. should automatically register citizens at 18
I would like to see every citizen of the U.S. automatically registered to vote at their age of majority and their voter information sent to them by that birthday. This would not force anyone to vote or tell them how to vote. It is a concept that I believe is right for our community and the nation. What do you […]
Computer changes coming
For those of you that don’t know, Windows XP support will be ending April 8, 2014. Unless you have a really big hard drive to download Windows 8, you, like me, will like me need to scrap your old computer. Microsoft is no longer selling Windows 7 downloads. For those of you that do not want to buy a new […]
What does the Cook County Senior Center mean to me?
I am an 84-year-old widow. I am a retired nurse from the North Shore Hospital. I live alone in a little house in town which is owned by my daughter and her husband. They live in Eau Claire, WI. My older son Art lives in town and my younger son David is in the Air Force in Colorado. Joyce Kehoe […]