Tim Nelson, planning director, came before commissioners on December 3 with a proposed fiscal year 2020 Lake Superior North Watershed work plan that involves Lake County. Cook and Lake counties have worked together to implement the Lake Superior North Watershed “One Watershed One Plan” work plan. The state of Minnesota awarded funding of $599,767 towards the implementation of the project. […]

In the Cook County Community Connections article last week the article stated that the board voted unanimously to approve the proposed levy. It was actually a 4-1 vote with Commissioner Heidi Doo-Kirk casting a no vote. The Cook County News-Herald regrets the error.

After efforts by Klobuchar, the U.S. Forest Service will redo the appraisal for federal payments to St. Louis, Lake, and Cook counties under the Thye-Blatnik Act that support crucial services including law enforcement, firefighting, and infrastructure improvements U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) issued the following statement after the U.S. Forest Service announced that they will re-do the appraisal of federal […]

The January/February edition of the Minnesota Conservation Volunteer magazine has a nice feature titled “Snowmobiles, Snowshoes and Big Brook Trout,” written by Michael Dvorak. Julie Collman, her dog Blue, and her husband Bob Baker took Dvorak brook trout fishing in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) last March. Dvorak does an excellent job capturing the adventure with 14 photographs and […]