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Four veterans from Cook County landed in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, May 4 as part of a large contingency of veterans from all over the U.S. who took part in the Honor Flight activities. Veterans visited Arlington Cemetery, and monuments and memorials for the Viet Nam, Korean, and World War ll wars. Honor Flight is a nonprofit organization that was […]
Community meetings to be held to learn more about the FLDS church
Property owners along the Pike Lake Road and other concerned Cook County citizens have banded together in an effort to spread the word about the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints who might be establishing a foothold in the Pike Lake area. The group has invited two of the nation’s leading experts on the FLDS to come and […]
North House Folk School director gives 2018 annual report
North House Folk School (NHFS) had another banner year, said Greg Wright to the Grand Marais City Council on May 8. Wright, NHFS director, was at the meeting to present the 2018 annual report and enrollment statistics. Student enrollment in 2018 was up 27 percent over 2017, the largest growth in years. Only December, with 73 students, stayed the same […]
Gunflint Hills golf course to open May 17, weather dependent
Gunflint Hills golf course superintendent Paul Jones and some early seasonal staff have been busy preparing for the planned May 17 opening of the Gunflint Hills golf course. Jones gave his report to the recreation park board at their May 7 meeting. In his first year at the helm, Jones talked about the projects going on inside and outside of […]
Grand Portage Early Childhood staff receives Child Development Associate Credential (CDA)
Four Early Childhood staff from Grand Portage participated in the Child Development Associate National Credentialing Program. The four individuals were involved in a fast track CDA Cohort that stretched over a period of three months. The Grand Portage Head Start Program with expertise in early childhood teacher preparation was designated the training agency that facilitated the course. The CDA National […]
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Looking very royal, a smiling Will Ramberg and Claire LaVigne were pronounced Cook County High School I.S.D. 166 prom king and queen for 2019.
Don’t forget to celebrate your mother on Mother’s Day
Time passes and the moments gone… 20th century English writer and philosopher, Aldous Huxley, who authored nearly 50 books– as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems–maintained, “Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” You can imagine any number of things falling into this “things” category. However, given Mother’s Day is just around the […]
Be grateful for what we have
“You’ve got to accentuate the positive, Eliminate the negative, Latch on to the affirmative, Don’t mess with Mister In-Between.” We have an excellent education system in Cook County. We have good law enforcement and reasonably good county and city administrations. We are a county of a little more than 5,000 people, but we must be reminded of the fact that […]