First grade class benefits from new equipment
Students in Ms. Spoon’s first grade physical education class have been among the Sawtooth Mountain Elementary students who have benefited from new equipment this year. Thanks to a generous Educator Grant from the Lions and Lioness Clubs of Cook County, the PE department received 24 new hula hoops, 30 beanbags, and 12 scoops with wiffle balls. “These gifts have created […]
Vikes win two games to get ready for playoffs
The Cook County High School girls’ softball team went into the playoffs with some momentum, winning the last two games of the season. On Friday, May 19 against Cromwell, the Vikings won 15-3 and later the same day came back to beat Floodwood 13-2. Head coach Peter Lucken said against Cromwell the Vikings never trailed and came up with some […]
Boys win two games as season winds down
Dillon Sjogren took the win from the mound for the Cook County Vikings in their Monday, May 22 game against the Wrenshall Wrens in a game played at Wrenshall. Sjogren pitched five innings, giving up one run, two hits and struck out four batters. Erik Lawler relieved Sjogren with two outs in the fifth. Andrew Miller relieved Lawler after a […]
New guides hit the Trail
The days are getting longer and the water temperatures are slowly climbing into a range that makes fish active. Soon there will be bug hatches happening below the surface as the sun warms the muddy lake bottoms, activating a chain of events known to anglers as the dreaded mayfly hatch, that often carries into June on Canadian shield lakes. I […]
Beaver House fish contest winners
Guys need not apply. That’s what this fishing contest turned into as the mother and daughter team of Chris Angelo and Robyn Tweeten reeled in all of the money in the Beaver House Fish Contest held over the last two weeks. The ladies didn’t leave a single greenback on the table for anyone else! Christine (Chris) won first place with […]
Where are the fish biting?
Brook trout fishermen— and fisherwomen—are reporting a slow bite right now in area streams, but that should improve with the water warming up (whenever that happens) and the utterly unavoidable occurrence of the mosquito hatch, and later the mayfly hatch. If you fish, you know the old saying, when the mosquitos bite best, so too do the fish. Inland lakes […]
Minnesota DNR Conservation Officer Tales
CO Darin Fagerman (Grand Marais) assisted with ATV and firearms safety classes. The classes have become very small with only four kids completing the ATV course and three completing the firearms course. No matter what kind of outdoor activity, encourage your kids to ditch the screen and get outside this summer. The officer did a patrol on a border lake […]
Cook County Law Enforcement briefs
It is the policy of the Cook County News-Herald to withhold the identities of individuals in Cook County Law Enforcement briefs. When court proceedings are complete, the Cook County News- Herald publishes a complete accounting of names and penalties in its Matters of Record. Monday, May 157:31 a.m., Lutsen: Deputy participated in Safe Routesto School, following the school bus looking […]
