Events at Drury Lane Books Monday, June 20, 5:00 p.m., Full Moon Reading with Linnea Hendrickson and friends. Saturday, June 11, 11 a.m., Muffin Man Story Hour with stories for young children. Grand Marais Garden Club Meeting The Grand Marais Garden Club will meet at 10 a.m., Monday, June 13 at the Senior Center. The speaker will be Laurie Kriz […]
Vikings land five players on Section 7A season-ending leaderboard
Coming off of one of Cook County High School’s best seasons in years, the 13-7 Viking baseball team placed several players on the leader board for Section 7A. Offense was seldom a problem for the Vikings this season, and that was borne out in batting averages. The Vikings ended their season with four players batting over .400. Senior all-star centerfielder […]
College News
Nelson graduates from Perpich Arts High School Jeremiah Ian Nelson of Grand Marais graduated from the visual arts program at Perpich Arts High School on June 3 at Ted Mann Concert Hall on the University of Minnesota West Bank campus. He is planning to take a gap year. Perpich Center for Arts Education is a state agency serving all schools, […]
Alumni football practice under way for July game
Big Lance Anderson was bent over, hands on his knees, breathing hard, trying to find some oxygen on the football field before the next play. For a big guy Lance had shown remarkable quickness, but the “boys” had been playing/practicing for more than an hour and Lance—like the late afternoon sun overhead—was starting to fade. Frankly, other than a few […]
Cook County YMCA swimmers win gold at Minnesota Senior Games
Two local athletes, Mark Abrahamson and Sally Summer-Mellang represented Cook County at the Minnesota Senior Games held in St. Cloud, Minnesota. The Senior games are for competitors ages 50-89. Participants could choose from over 22 events in which to compete including swimming, tennis, running, pickleball, golf, cycling, basketball, archery, and more. Participants scoring a gold, silver, or bronze advance to […]
Rain, lightning and hail
Heavy rainstorms this week could not have been more welcome. The forest turned green which reduced the fire danger, and the walleyes were biting. Heavy soakers without lightning are great for early season green-up, and the cold temperatures that came with the storms zapped those pesky black flies. Spring is in bloom, and it is a great time to be […]
Locals participate in 2016 Wildfire Academy
More than 850 firefighters and instructors participated in the 2016 Minnesota Wildfire Academy held at Itasca Community College in Grand Rapids June 6-10. Among them were 17 people from Cook County including about 12 employees from the Superior National Forest Tofte Ranger District and five employees from the Grand Portage Tribal Government. They took part in seven different classes and […]
Critical habitat “not prudent” for threatened northern long-eared bat
After conducting an in-depth study of the northern long-eared bat’s winter habitat needs, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has determined that, “it is not prudent to designate hibernation sites as critical habitat.” As for the bat’s summer habitat, the Service determined that designating critical habitat would also not benefit the species. The FWS released its report on April […]
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 […]