The Grand Marais Playhouse’s fall production will be Shakespeare’s As You Like It, directed by Marco Good with set and lights designed by Jackson Nickolay. Auditions will be Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts. Auditions are open for high school age students and adults. There is also an opening for a stage manager and […]
Community Calendar
Events at Drury Lane Books Saturday, Sept. 26, 5 p.m. – 6 p.m.: Full Moon featuring Amy Schmidt. Outside on the lakeshore. Saturday, Oct. 3, 5 p.m.: Writer’s Salon with poet Jill Breckenridge reading from Sometimes…: poems. Grand Marais Playhouse auditions for Shakespeare’s As You Like It September 29 at 7 p.m. in the Arrowhead Center for the Arts. Auditions […]
Rude graduates UND with physics degree
Cody M. Rude graduated this August 2015 from University of North Dakota – Grand Forks with a Ph.D. in physics. His dissertation was on Tracking Star Formations in Dwarf Cluster Galaxies. He is presently working at a post doctorate research project at the Haystack Observatory at MIT in Massachusetts. Cody graduated from University of Minnesota – Duluth in 2009 with […]
Danfelt Martin graduates from UM-Twin Cities
Gavin Danfelt Martin graduated from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in early August 2015 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication studies. His cumulative GPA is 3.7. Gavin attended St. Cloud State for two years and transferred to the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2013. He is a 2010 Cook County High School graduate and the son […]
Vikings lose to Ely Timberwolves
With 1:46 left in the first quarter the Vikings’ defense finally bent and gave up a touchdown to Ely’s slippery junior running back Josh Heiman, who scored from about 12 yards out. Heiman also ran in the two extra points and the Vikings trailed 8-0. Unfortunately for the Vikings, Heiman was only warming up in the first quarter. He would […]
Sloan completes Superior 100 mile trail race
Former Tofte native Harry Sloan, age 67, was the oldest contestant to finish the rugged Superior 100-mile Trail Race on Saturday, September 12, reaching Caribou Highlands 37 hours and 58 minutes after he had left the starting line at the Gooseberry Falls State Park Visitors Center at 8 a.m. on Friday. The retired police officer and Vietnam veteran finished with […]
Freemans ready to launch “A Year in the Wilderness”
Educator-explorers Dave and Amy Freeman, sometime residents of Lutsen, will kick off “A Year in the Wilderness” with a celebratory event at 5 p.m. Sept. 20 in Ely. The Freemans, 2014 National Geographic Adventurers of the Year, will leave to spend an entire year in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness on Sept. 23. The occasion will be marked with […]
Deer Hunters Association celebrates the outdoors at annual banquet
For years the Arrowhead Chapter of the Minnesota Deer Hunters Association (MDHA) has helped send Cook County youths to “Forkhorn Camp.” The youths that have attended have greatly enjoyed the adventure and the local MDHA chapter hopes to continue sending kids in the future. To that end, the Arrowhead Chapter is hosting its annual banquet at the Cook County Community […]
Where are the fish biting?
Capt. Jerry Skarupa of Secret Lures Charters says the surface temperatures on Lake Superior are 55 degrees, and the lake trout fishing is absolutely great at various depths. Salmon are still around.