In June 2014 the North Shore Health Care Foundation sponsored a community forum, Honoring Choices: Completing your health care directive. Because the response was so positive, the Health Care Foundation is offering the forum again, on Tuesday, November 25 at the Sawtooth Mountain Clinic lower level classroom. The public is invited to participate from 4 – 6 p.m. The purpose […]
Community Calendar
Northwoods Fiber Guild Holiday Sale & Open House Saturday, December 6, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Grand Marais Art Colony, 120 3rd Ave. West. Refreshments, Spinning & Weaving demonstrations. Learn a new fiber handcraft at the Hands-On Table. All are invited to the Annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner At First Congregational Church, 1:00 p.m., on Thanksgiving Day. The church […]
Promising young players for Viking basketball
Cook County boys’ basketball coach Pat Eliasen and his staff welcomed 15 players to the 2014-2015 Viking roster. The team is young, sporting two eighth-graders, Leif Anderson and Trusen Gordon, as well as a handful of ninth- and tenthgrade players. Coach Eliasen likes to see younger kids get involved with basketball. The first week he brought up the seventh- and […]
Baham graduates from Euro-NATO pilot training
Second Lieutenant Taylor Baham graduated from Euro-NATO Joint Pilot Training (ENJJPT) at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas on Friday, November 7, 2014. ENJJPT is a joint pilot training program for the NATO forces with 13 NATO nations participating in the program. The program itself was designed by NATO nations. Baham received his 55-week training from the 80th Flight Training Wing […]
Making ice
The unmistakable sound of ice being made rang loud this morning with a reverberating noise that echoed off of Birch Lake’s granite shoreline where I have been working. Finally the wind let up enough this week to start making ice on some of the larger lakes and it is getting me excited to put away the rifle and rev-up my […]
Big Buck Contest winding down
Deer season is winding down and at press time, the results in the Buck’s Hardware Big Buck Contest remain the same. Current winner in the weight category is Colton Furlong whose buck weighed in at 224.2 pounds. Owen Anderson was close behind with a 217.8-pound buck. In the antler spread category Mike Quaife is leader with a rack width of […]
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 […]
DNR reminder: Ice is not safe right now
Ice is forming on some lakes, rivers and ponds around Minnesota, but DNR conservation officers warn it is too early to venture out. “The thin layers of ice forming on some Minnesota waters right now are not safe,” said Greg Salo, operations manager of the DNR Enforcement Division. “A few days of cold temperatures don’t create ice strong enough to […]
Early wolf hunt closed in Northeast Zone
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources officials closed the early wolf hunt season for the Northeast (N.E.) Zone on November 13 after 35 wolves had been taken. The early season quota for the N.E. zone, which includes Cook County, was 37. When close, the DNR will cancel a hunting season rather than see the quota overextended. Meanwhile hunting remains open in […]
Red Cliff Band continues work to retrieve barrels from Lake Superior
Lake Superior is noted for pristine, cold, clear water and agate beaches. It is home to 88 species of fish and more than 150 types of birds live along its shoreline or in its estuaries. Its shores and bays are home to beaver, otter, deer, moose, fox, wolves, mice and voles, rabbits, chipmunks and squirrels, among other animals. But beneath […]