James A. Jacobson
James A. Jacobson, 84, of Grand Marais, died March 24, 2019 in Grand Marais. Jim was born in Chippewa Falls, Wis. to Wally and Ann (Selzner) Jacobson. He attended public schools in Chippewa Falls and was a graduate of Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, and Luther Theological Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Upon graduation from Luther Seminary he accepted a call to […]
Bernice Anna Shold Howard
Bernice Anna Shold Howard, 96, of Grand Marais, Minnesota passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on March 4, 2019. She was born November 8, 1922, the fourth of 10 (surviving) children born to Andrew and Freda (Backlund) Shold of Grand Marais, Minnesota. Bernice graduated in 1940 from Cook County High School and attended Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota. […]
Mark Ernest Patten
Mark Ernest Patten, age 67, of Grand Marais, passed away March 16, 2019 at the Solvay Hospice House in Duluth after a battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). He was born March 11, 1952 to Leland Tobias Patten and Kathryn Sylvia (Dewar) Patten in Worthington, Minn. He graduated from Robbinsdale High ·School in 1970. He married Nancy Elizabeth Barr on […]
Donna L. Viren
On Thursday, March 21, 2019, Donna L. Viren, loving wife, and mother of four children, passed away in Billings, MT, at the age of 88. Donna was born on April 24, 1930, in Grand Rapids, MN, to Lee and Dina Feero of Jacobson, MN. She graduated valedictorian of Hill City High School in 1948. She attended three years of Bible […]
Historical Reflections
Happy birthday to us! As the Cook County News-Herald begins its 129th year, we thought it would be interesting to take a look at an edition published 115 years ago— on Jan. 16, 1904. Although the early editions of the “Cook County Herald” contained mostly world and national news and only a few local stories, readers of Volume 12, Number […]
Down Memory Lane
10 YEARS AGOMARCH 28, 2009 West End residents in the vicinity of the Honeymoon Trail have appealed to the Cook County commissioners for the second time to have a flashing white strobe light removed from a 230-foot-tall tower in the area. The tower is used for the county’s Emergency Management System and other agencies including the Forest Service. Last August, […]
Grand Portage Port of Entry seizes cocaine
On Saturday, March 16, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Grand Portage Port of Entry seized 20.9 grams of cocaine. The seizure occurred when a CBP officer referred a brown Chevrolet Equinox driven by a 43-year-old Canadian citizen from Sioux Lookout, Ontario. During an inspection of the vehicle, officers discovered 20 small baggies of a white powdery […]
Cook County explores vacation rental ordinance
As a prime tourism destination, vacation rental homes have long been a part of Cook County’s landscape. A “vacation rental” is when a property owner rents out their home or cabin on a short-term basis while they are not staying in the dwelling. Vacation rental provisions first appeared in the 1984 Cook County Zoning Ordinance, and until now have been […]
Governor’s budget proposal includes cuts that could hurt Minnesota care centers
North Shore Health (NSH) recently learned that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s 2020 budget proposal includes cuts to Value-Based Reimbursement (VBR) for nursing homes. If enacted as the budget currently stands, it would negatively affect all of Minnesota’s care centers. “Based upon our analysis, the proposed budget will have a minimum $225,000 cut in reimbursement to North Shore Health in 2020 […]