Musher Ryan Redington of Ashland, Wis. won first place at the 12-dog, 110-mile Gunflint Mail Run sled dog race. Redington is the grandson of famed Joe Redington Sr., who is known as the “Father of the Iditarod.” Chad Schouweiler of Irma, Wis. was the first place finisher for the eight-dog, 70-mile race. The races started and finished at the Trail […]
Craig Hansen selected as Grand Portage National Monument superintendent
Craig Hansen, a 14-year veteran of the National Park Service, has been selected as the new superintendent of Grand Portage National Monument. He is currently superintendent of Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site in Stanton, North Dakota. Hansen begins his new assignment March 19, 2017. “ Craig has done an outstanding job at Knife River as superintendent, and I […]
Forest Service signs decision for proposed land exchange with PolyMet
On January 9, the U.S. Forest Service approved a deal to trade land with PolyMet Mining Corp. This is a big step in PolyMet moving forward with its plans to develop an open pit copper-nickel mine on a 30-square-mile patch of land that includes the old Erie Mining plant processing facility, rail line, and tailings basin in the Hoyt Lakes […]
Commissioners hold a brief meeting, approving several items
Cook County Sheriff Pat Eliasen came before the county board on January 10 and asked for approval to move a part-time dispatcher to full-time. Currently, his office has five full-time and one-halftime dispatcher/jailers, but needs six full-time employees to cover all of the shifts and vacations, he said. Problems arise when more than five people are in jail. At that […]
Snowarama for Easter Seals crosses borders
Grab your helmets and winter gear because the coolest snowmobile event hits the trails on Saturday, February 11, kicking off the 2017 fundraising for Easter Seals Ontario. Once again, the Thunder Bay Snowarama for Easter Seals Kids will head south of the border to Grand Portage, only 45 minutes from Thunder Bay, attracting snowmobilers from across northwestern Ontario to Minnesota […]
A big thank you to the rescue workers and community
We would like to thank everyone involved who responded to the tragic snowmobile accident on December 31, 2016. We would like to thank the Sheriff ’s Department, ambulance crew, highway patrol, First Responders, Search & Rescue, fire department and anyone else who may have been involved, but we have missed. We don’t realize, in such a small community, the effect […]
Government part one: The Why
The fruit of labor and thought… Hamilton: The immensely popular American musical based on the life of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, first appeared Off-Broadway in February 2015. Since its debut it has achieved both critical acclaim and box office success. Hamilton, often referred to as the influential interpreter and promoter of the U.S. Constitution, believed, “Opinion, whether well or […]
Homelessness in Cook County a concern
Are there homeless people in Cook County? Yes, today and in the recent past, Cook County has had people living out of their vehicles, in tents, or other types of substandard housing. But hopefully, something can be done to alleviate that dilemma. Recently a homeless woman was found sleeping in her car in various locations around town. She slept in […]
Correction
In the January 7 story about how wildlife researchers are unraveling the mystery of what is killing Minnesota’s moose, it was stated that the annual survival rate for collared moose study for 2016 (Year 4) is 95 percent. It should have been 85 percent. The Cook County News-Herald regrets the error.