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Big winds busted the bolts holding up the streetlight by the Big Lake store. A city crew removed the light on Saturday, Oct. 12. Waves on the lake washed over the harbor wall and pushed water into town, all of the way up the street to Blue Water Café.
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The Cook County High School 2019 Homecoming King and Queen are Keenan Hingos and Alyssa Spry. The royal couple was crowned in a very entertaining ceremony conducted in front of the entire student body on Thursday, Oct. 10.
Hunting will not be allowed on Isle Royale
It’s been a busy summer at Isle Royale National Park. A beaver dam built in the 1950s burst in November 2017 and continues to slowly drain Lake Ojibwa, leaving a deep mud pit on what used to be shoreline. Researchers discovered four moose had become stuck in the thick mud and died. Moose frequent Lake Ojibwa in spring and summer […]
Chris Hegg honored at conference cross country meet
Longtime boys’ and girls’ volunteer cross country running coach at Cook County High School, Chris Hegg, was honored for his many years of service and dedication to coaching kids at the Polar League Conference championship meet held at Pincushion on October 10. Surprised, Hegg, the meet’s race director, had to suspend his duties for a few minutes to accept an […]
Cook County board holds special meeting to address administrator vacancy
With Cook County administrator Jeff Cadwell’s last day on the job Monday, October 14, Cook County commissioners held a special meeting on Thursday, October 10, to discuss the vacancy. Cadwell left to take the newly created administrator position for Mahnomen County. Before coming to Cook County, Jeff was the Mahnomen city administrator. Commissioners met with department heads and other county […]
Use it or lose it . . .
There’s a part of our brain that too often sits dormant. It’s that part of the brain that is located right behind our forehead. It’s this region of our brain that is considered the seat of complex thought. Known as the cerebral cortex, it’s responsible for some very important things such as moral reasoning, critical and creative thinking, planning for […]
Hospital levy is out of control
According to the article in the Sept. 14 News- Herald, the hospital board is raising their tax levy for 2020 by $200,000. This brings the total levy increase to half a million dollars over the last two years and represents a 62.5 percent increase over what it was from 2011 to 2018 when there were no levy increases. Why was […]
Bob Toftey was a great Law School League basketball player
Thank you for your coverage of Bob Toftey’s honoring by NDSU. He was a law school classmate of mine at Minnesota. I knew Bob best for his team’s success in our Law School Basketball League. I never knew of his stellar Grand Marais and NDSU athletic success. That reflects the modesty he evinced in all his life. Classic Scandinavian, he […]
Stuttering is a disability that isn’t well understood
October 22nd is International Stuttering Awareness Day. Stuttering is the only disability people still laugh at but we’re working to change that! Just over 70 million people around the world stutter, including more than three million Americans. Most people know someone who stutters, but few understand the condition, what causes it, and how it is treated. Many famous people, including […]