Community members interested in the housing situation in Cook and Lake counties are invited to attend the North Shore Housing & Community Dialogue on Monday, September 19 from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. in the Red Building at North House Folk School. Representatives of U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development, Greater Minnesota Housing Fund, Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic […]
Community Calendar
Events at Drury Lane Books Saturday, September 10, 5 p.m., Writer’s Salon with Lucie Amundsen reading from her book, Locally Laid: How We Built a Plucky, Industry-changing Egg Farm. Friday, September 16, 7 p.m., Full Moon Reading with Erin Watson. Saturday, September 17, 5 p.m., Writer’s Salon with Rose Arrowsmith Decoux reading from The Marvelous Imagination of Katie Addams. Cook […]
September 14 is first Walk to School Day
Students are back to school this week, and many will be getting there on foot or bike. Thanks to the Safe Routes to School Committee, it will be safer and easier for children to walk and bike to and from school. Studies have found that physical activity, such as walking or biking to school, allows students to concentrate better during […]
MnSCU system is now Minnesota State
The board of trustees of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities has endorsed an initiative that changes how the system refers to itself from “MnSCU” to “Minnesota State.” The move does not change the nation’s fifth-largest higher education system’s legal name, which is written in state statute. “Research has shown that the vast majority of Minnesotans – including prospective students, parents, […]
College News
Shannon O’Phelan earns St. Thomas academic honors Shannon O’Phelan of Lutsen has been named to the spring 2016 semester dean’s honor list at the University of St. Thomas. To be on the dean’s honor list a student needs to attain a grade point average of 3.50 or higher at the end of a semester in which he or she has […]
Vikings pound Barnum Bombers
The Cook County High School volleyball team wasted little time getting back into the win column following their opening season loss to the Marshall Hilltoppers by beating the Barnum Bombers at home on Thursday, September 1 in three straight games 25-8, 25-13 and 25-13. Meredith Sutton finished with 14 kills and 16 digs. Tarin Hanson had 18 set assists and […]
Vikings lose to North Woods
A young Cook County High School football team traveled to Cook on Thursday, September 1 to face the equally young North Woods Grizzlies in their opening game of the season and came away with a 36-8 loss. North Woods Garrett Abramson scored two short rushing touchdowns as the Grizzlies took an 8-0 first period lead and a 20-0 lead at […]
Where are the fish biting?
Scott Sorenson of Fly Box & Company reports that inland rainbow trout fly fishing in streams has started to turn on as the water cools down. Scott said leech pattern streamers are working well. Other colors that are good are bright reds and yellows, which are working best on the shorelines. Pink salmon will be in the rivers in about […]
Back to school
The first day of school is a big day for any student, especially when it is also their first day riding the bus. It is hard for me to believe that my little girl is going to kindergarten full time, and being shuttled there by the school bus from our Gunflint Trail home. Time really does fly by. It is […]
Minnesota’s wolf population remains stable
Results from the latest wolf population survey show no significant change in Minnesota’s wolf population during the past four winters, according to the Department of Natural Resources. The latest survey results estimate that within Minnesota’s wolf range there were 439 wolf packs and 2,278 wolves last winter, compared to 374 packs and 2,221 wolves the year before. There has been […]