Cook County Higher Education will be offering a ServSafe Food Manager Certification and renewal training on June 12 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at its North Shore Campus in Grand Marais. The full certification course costs $175, which includes the textbook and exam. The renewal course runs from 8 a.m. to noon the same day and costs $75. This […]
Congratulations to everyone who Moves It!
During the month of May, nominations were sought for the Move It! award. The Sawtooth Mountain Clinic, the Cook County Senior Center and the Cook County News- Herald joined forces to get community members thinking about the people who inspire others to move. The response was great, with some very motivating stories shared. The nominees selected as winners received a […]
Grand Marais student participates in Capitol Page Program
Douglas “DJ” Fincel of Grand Marais, an 11th grader who attends high school online through the Minnesota Connections Academy, is very interested in American government. To learn more, he applied, and was accepted, to participate in Minnesota’s Page Program, one of only three programs in the nation to provide young people with an in-depth look into government at the state […]
Where are the fish biting?
Buck’s Hardware Hank offers this week’s report: Word this week is the walleyes have become a bit tougher to catch. The bait of choice still appears to be chubs although the leeches are definitely starting to leave the store. During the daytime hours people are fishing a little deeper, while in the evening they’re following the fish into the shallows. […]
Arrowhead Chapter of Minnesota Deer Hunters celebrates
The Minnesota Deer Hunters Association (MDHA), Arrowhead Chapter held its 9th annual banquet at the American Legion in Grand Marais on June 3. The banquet serves as the chapter’s primary fundraiser, but it is also a lot of fun for attendees. Funds raised are used in the community to educate youth about hunting, to improve wildlife habitat and more. The […]
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 […]
Summer at last
There are not a lot of things that serious anglers agree on, but most of us believe that walleye fishing the month of June on the Gunflint Trail is hard to beat. We have never been famous for the fishing opener due to the late ice and cold temperatures, but once the water starts to warm up and the baitfish […]
Eight Rivers North Expedition sets out to paddle 920 miles
For the second time in two years Adam Maxwell, Jake Bendel and Ryan Ritter will be on the water for a long canoe trip, this time spending 55 days in the Canadian wilderness as they portage and paddle eight rivers while covering 920 miles. Maxwell and Bendel are former employees of Voyageur Canoe Outfitters (VCO) at the end of the […]
