Loggers endorse Pete Stauber
Last week Pete Stauber, the GOP candidate for the 8th Congressional District, picked up the endorsement of the Associated Contract Loggers & Truckers of Minnesota (ACLT). The announcement came from ACLT after DFL 8th Congressman Rick Nolan announced he would not run again for the 2018 election. This is the first time the ALCT has endorsed a Republican candidate.
Correction
The three children pictured on the front page of the February 17 Cook County News-Herald were accepting a check for the Cooperation Station Day Care from the 1st & 2nd Thrift Store, not Great Expectations School as stated in the caption. The Cook County New-Herald regrets the error.
The Bible, Christians, and Guns
Fifteen kids and two adults whose professional lives revolved around them died in a school shooting on Valentine’s Day last week. In addition to being the seventh school shooting this year, it was the largest mass shooting since the Texas church massacre just over three months ago. I’ve been thinking about these two events a lot because I’m a teacher […]
Ruth Ellen Olson Kimball
Ruth Ellen Olson Kimball, 88, passed away on February 18, 2018, at Sunnyside Health Care Center in Cloquet, Minnesota, surrounded by family. Ruth was born at home in Maple Hill/Grand Marais, Minnesota on July 6, 1929, to Olaf and Lillian Olson. She held many cooking jobs but retired from her favorite job at the Billy Graham Institute in Minneapolis. She valued […]
Bernard James Spencer, M.D.
Bernard James Spencer, M.D., retired pediatric surgeon, 96, died January 4, 2018, at Hope Hospice of Southwest Florida. He was born in St. Charles, Minn., Feb. 15, 1921, to John and Gertrude (Small) Spencer. In 1928, the family moved to Blue Earth, Minn., where Bernie spent the rest of his youth as an Eagle Scout, an outstanding student, a great […]
Medicine Talk with pharmacist coming to Grand Portage March 11
Winter has returned, and as we have to spend more time indoors, the Elders are getting creative as to how they stay active. We continue to have Water Aerobics three times a week, cards and cribbage once a week, line dancing two nights a week and weekly Wisdom Steps on Wednesday. Carol Hackett has created a fun competition for the […]
Down Memory Lane
10 YEARS AGOFEB. 22, 2008 Cook County Commissioner Jim Johnson said Tuesday it’s time for the county to look into the cause of – and inability to fix – ongoing telephone problems on the Gunflint Trail. “It’s very, very serious. It’s a matter of safety, and it affects a lot of people who are trying to run businesses,” said Johnson, […]
School board approves communications position
Who is responsible for getting the word out about the many and varied activities and accomplishments that happen at I.S.D. 166? Up until now, it’s been teachers and administrators, coaches and students who disseminate information, not all of it timely and not all of it cohesive. That’s about to change. Following the lead of several Minnesota school districts and a […]