Among the more interesting items found on the Grand Marais harbor beach sweep last weekend was a Celtic ring, a tiny pink troll carrying an Easter basket, a plastic head of Captain America, a tawny brown almost calcified bone, a pink plastic sandal, and a large metal spring. Held on a sunny, blue sky April 21 Saturday with a skim […]
School board accepts school counselor ’s resignation
Kris Hoffman will be sorely missed at I.S.D. 166. The hard working middle school/ high school counselor with the can-do attitude and warm smile announced he was leaving CCHS to accept a new position at Hutchinson High School. His resignation came at the school board’s Thursday, April 19 meeting and was accepted with regrets. Hoffman’s resignation will be effective June […]
What’s in a tooth?
Two winters ago Bob Brandt was walking on a far-flung beach near Venice, Florida when he encountered a man who was looking for shark’s teeth. “He showed me some, and they were interesting,” said Brandt. “I asked him how many he found, and he said he collected about 2,000 every winter.” Impressed, Brandt said he began to look for teeth […]
Cook County deputies to receive Narcan units
At the county board’s Tuesday, April 24 meeting Cook County Sheriff Pat Eliasen reported his office received a donation of $750 from the Greater Hallsville Area Development and Rural Health Corporation that will be used to purchase Narcan units. In a memo to the board, Eliasen said Narcan units would be given to patrol deputies who will administer the drug […]
Things
Who hasn’t heard Julie Andrews belt out Rodgers and Hammerstein’s, “My Favorite Things,” in the 1965 film adaptation of the Broadway musical The Sound of Music, one of the most endearing show tunes from a musical that contains more hit songs than any other on which the innovative theater writing team would collaborate. But this column isn’t a treatise on […]
Nordic plunge reminded former resident about his own swims in the harbor
Reading the “Nordic plunge- April 21” article in the Cook County News-Herald reminded me of the dozens of times friends and I swam in the harbor. We swam off the break wall, jumping first into the lakeside, and then the harbor (by comparison) felt like bathwater. Thirty-three years teaching junior high school left me some sanity and now we have […]
Writer questions concept of white privilege
I’m confused. News stories call Social Justice a political activist movement. Weeks ago Mr. Hiniker linked it to U.S. regime change. Isn’t that political? But a recent writer says it was an all smiles day for elementary students. Another letter links it to the Golden Rule suggesting Social Justice a platform of moral betterment. What does that mean? One speaker […]
Local communities should become united in voice of change
I am encouraged that Janice Latz’s letter in the April 7 News-Herald was titled “Social Justice is pretty similar to the Golden Rule.” She speaks of Social Justice being about “fairness, justness and equal treatment and opportunity for all.” And that “we are encouraged to respect each other and understand that we all come from different backgrounds that color our […]
Writer is concerned that schools are promoting indoctrination
It appears Mr. Hiniker did not understand the point of my letter he mischaracterizes. Social Justice (sic) is a leftist approach to increased governmental control over our lives. My concern is that the school promotes indoctrination rather than education. Presentations made by “activists” regarding various highly controversial political issues, without contrary representations, can only be viewed as an exercise in […]
Leave the Second Amendment alone!
This letter is in response to Mr. James King. Please, Mr. King, don’t renew your membership in the NRA. This group does not need you. You belong to Pelosi’s group of gun grabbers. First of all, the AR-15 is not an assault rifle. It is not an automatic rifle. It is simply a semi-automatic rifle. As for the word assault, […]