The 10th annual Grand Marais Arts Festival was held July 8-9, 2000 and thanks to a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, performing artists and musicians were incorporated into the event for the first time. Musician Ross Sutter was popular as he performed with his accordion and entertained kids and adults alike with his mix of music and stories.
Down Memory Lane
10 YEARS AGOJULY 11, 2009 Independence Day weekend was once again touched by tragedy with a drowning on Temperance River in Tofte. The call came in to the Cook County Sheriff ’s Office at 6:51 p.m. on July 4. A 45-year-old Ramsey, Minnesota man had been witnessed swimming in the river, and apparently got carried away by the current. His […]
Child Support Services in Cook County
Every child needs financial and emotional support .Child support services work with parents and guardians to ensure that children and establishing families receive court-ordered balance financial and medical support. According to 2017 data taken from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families: 15.1 million children were served by the child support program. $32.4 billion dollars in […]
New superintendent at Gunflint Hills Golf Course
Gunflint Hills golf course superintendent Paul Jones is an old hand at helping golf course superintendents fix their turf. In fact, that’s how he became familiar with the Grand Marais city owned 9-hole course. Last summer after the early retirement of superintendent Mike Kunshier, Paul was hired as a contractor to help maintain Gunflint Hills fairways and greens until a […]
Photos
Left: Jim Vannet not only likes to fish, he likes to carve and paint fish. Vannet was one of dozens of vendors selling his artwork at the Hovland art fair held last weekend. Below: Mary Jo Flack has been a regular at the Hovland Art Fair since its inception. Lower left: Shoppers picked from a wide variety of locally produced […]
First half of youth baseball season ends with a dinger
Baseballs and softballs were flying over the fence at the second annual Home Run Derby at Pappy Wright Field held July 5th. Kids and adults of all ages took their shot at 10 swings for the championship. Winners as follows: Nico Tersteeg – Parent Pitch; Hunter Rex – Little League; Kole Anderson – Babe Ruth; Derrick Siedel Jr. – High […]
Cook County Senior Legion loses, then beats I-Falls
With two outs in the bottom of the fourth inning Joe Deschampe singled sharply to center field, driving in Andrew Miller. That run brought the score to 15-2 over International Falls, and the lead would hold through the fifth inning when the game was called because of the 10-run rule. The game was played July 2 at Arleigh Jorgenson field […]
40th annual Tofte Trek July 4th races
Before any of the 156 runners were sent out to race the hilly, windy, wooded, Tofte trails Greg Fangel, co-founder, past president, and board member of the Sugarbush Trail Association, introduced Jan Horak to the crowd as the founder of the Tofte Trek 10k run/walk race. A humble Jan Horak accepted the kind words from Fangel and the commemorative award […]
Fire Danger
The lack of rainfall has begun taking its toll this week and Smokey the Bear has raised his arm to the “high” fire danger mark to inform visitors of the dangerous conditions. The ground has become hard and dusty while the lawn grass is struggling to stay green enough to grow. There have been a few wildfires burning in Canada […]
Conservation Officer Tales
Although the Cook County News- Herald knows that the majority of sportsmen and women are law-abiding folks, there are a few that run afoul of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Conservation Officers. Periodically, the DNR provides a report of some of the miscreants the Conservation Officers (CO) have encountered. The News-Herald shares these stories as a reminder to […]