There’s No Place Like Home: Explore Cook County with Sugarloaf 1 p.m. – August 21 – Meet at Sugarloaf Cove. Enjoy an in-depth exploration of Cook County’s special places with your neighbors. Each week features a unique habitat to explore with Sugarloaf’s naturalist – On August 21, it’s Lake Superior. Free. Sponsored in part by the Cook County Community Fund, […]
Vikings take to field in 9-man football
Brian Larsen Cook County High School Football Head Coach Mitch Dorr welcomed about 30 boys to the first day of Viking football practice on a warm, sometime rainy, sometime sunny Monday, August 10. The young men wore helmets, T-shirts and shorts, but didn’t dress in pads and uniforms for their first day of conditioning. With only 10 days before their […]
Viking volleyball prepares for season
Viking Head Coach Pam Taylor sat in her office wishing she could be at practice with her team, but because of Minnesota State High School League rules, only players could attend the first week of what is called “Captain’s Practice.” About 30 young ladies showed up for the first day of workouts on Monday, August 10. They ran their own […]
College News
Sarah Larsen on dean’s list Sarah Larsen of Grand Marais has been named to the spring 2015 semester dean’s list at St. Catherine University in St. Paul. A first-year student in the Undergraduate Day program, Sarah Larsen is majoring in secondary education and history and is the daughter of Ralph Larsen and Sandy Stover. She is a 2013 graduate of […]
Another successful Rendezvous at Grand Portage National Monument
Grand Portage National Monument’s Rendezvous Days 2015 was another massive success with nearly 2,000 visitors attending the event with approximately 300 re-enactors at 142 sites on the historic grounds during the weekend. The event has consistently featured a musical theme over the years and the festivities this year included tunes from the monument’s very own bagpiper Jeremy Kingsbury and fiddler […]
Bears and berries
Bears and berries seem to find their way into my columns each August and justifiably so because both have been easy to spot this week. Wild blueberries have been harvested in the burn areas near Seagull Lake each year since the fire, however I am told they are getting a little harder to find. The berries are peaking in ripeness […]
Where are the fish biting?
Capt. Jerry Skarupa of Secret Lures Charters reports that Lake Superior temperatures remain at about 50 degrees. Lake trout are in various depths of 150 feet and up, making for slow fishing. There are few salmon.
Minnesota wolf population down
According to the latest Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) survey, wolf packs are larger this year, but there are fewer of them and fewer wolves in the state now than there were last year. DNR estimates place 2,221 wolves in the state, down about 200 from the 2014 count but nearly identical to the 2013 tally. Pack sizes grew […]
