In October 2014, the Cook County commissioners passed a motion to pay the North Shore Management Board (NSMB) annual membership dues in the amount of $2,500. These dues guarantee representation in the decisions and activities of the NSMB, which has authority over property that lies between Lake Superior and 300 feet inland from Highway 61—or a line that is 1,000 […]
Sauna fire at Lutsen Resort quickly extinguished
The Lutsen Fire Department was paged to historic Lutsen Resort at 8:39 a.m. on Friday, November 21. A caller had reported a fire in the sauna in the resort’s pool area. Lutsen Fire Department was on the scene by 8:52 a.m. and Tofte Fire Department responding for mutual aid was on scene shortly after. Cook County Ambulance and Cook County […]
Great Expectations School hosts Self-Portrait Exhibition
Parents, families, and friends of GES students enjoyed much more than the ubiquitous “selfie” when they came to the Great Expectations School Self-Portrait Exhibition and Potluck on Thursday, November 20. Student expressions included projects from monochromatic studies to bright, multicolored masks. Clay, fabric, paint, and even QR codes with web-based information pages were among the elements featured in the school […]
Viking girls participate in scrimmage at Esko
One way for a team to find out its strengths and weaknesses is to play in a pre-season jamboree, and that’s just what the Vikings did on Saturday, November 22 when they traveled to Esko to play four 30-minute scrimmages against Cromwell, Two Harbors, Floodwood, and International Falls. Girls’ basketball Head Coach Mitch Dorr started Jami Sjogren, Lily Gruber- Schulz, […]
Over the Hill
Thanksgiving TomatoesTime to get rid of it Although the bottom leaves of the tomato plant are yellow and many of its leaves dropping, I hesitate before picking it up, feeling like a traitor. The plant is over five feet tall with scraggly vine-like uppermost stems that reach for the ceiling. Finally, two months after bringing it into the house and setting […]
Tough start for Viking boys at Nashwauk-Keewatin
With four new starters the Cook County Viking boys’ basketball team is definitely lacking experience and it showed during its first game of the season when they traveled to Nashwauk-Keewatin on Friday, November 21 and lost their opening game of the season 78-39. Nashwauk has a strong starting five, said Head Coach Pat Eliasen, and a deep bench. The Vikings […]
WTIP to continue Vikings’ basketball coverage
WTIP North Shore Community Radio will once again provide live broadcasts of several Cook County Vikings boys’ and girls’ basketball games starting Tuesday, December 2. WTIP volunteers Norman Moe and Dick Dorr will provide playby play coverage of eight doubleheader Cook County Vikings’ games, spread throughout the basketball season. “It’s important to WTIP to provide this service,” says WTIP’s Executive […]
Nordic skiers get ready for season on snow
A small contingency of boys and girls are out for Nordic skiing this season, but that doesn’t deter their determination to do well, said Assistant Coach Chris Hegg. Leading the boys is junior Sean MacDonell. He is now out west at Yellowstone training with the Duluth East cross country skiers, said Hegg. Only two other boys are skiing this year. […]
Annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count coming December 20
Both feeder watchers and birders to walk or drive are needed for the 2014 Audubon Christmas Bird Count (CBC) on Saturday, December 20. Participants can cover as much or as little as they would like in the Grand Marais counting circle, which is a 7.5-mile radius circle from a point 3 miles south of the middle of Devil Track Lake. […]