February 25, a Tuesday, is caucus day in Minnesota with both the Cook County Republicans and Cook County Democrats meeting. The Cook County Grand Old Party (GOP) Republican caucus will be held at the Cook County Senior Center (The Hub) at 7 p.m. The Cook County Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) party will meet at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts at 6:30 […]
Changing seasons
Shortly after we arrived in Cook County in 2015, Skip Lamb convinced my kids that they should be downhill skiers. He told them all about the amazing junior program at Lutsen Mountains. Tina and Don McKeever helped us outfit them for their first year on the slopes. John Oberholtzer and other NJRS coaches taught them how to ski a slalom […]
Julie Jo Marxen Wilson
Julie Jo Marxen Wilson, age 49, of Anoka, Minnesota, passed away unexpectedly on January 30, 2020. She is preceded in death by her parents, Lawrence and Donna Marxen; nephew, Tom Spah; great-niece, Alissa Spah. She will be deeply missed by her daughter, Haley DeFrances (Errol); granddaughter, Averie DeFrances; siblings, Sandra Spah, Gail Beckwith (Lloyd), Noretta Bockovich (Bill), Nanetta Lehnen (Glenn), […]
Cheryl Doreen (Sherer, James) Kauppi (Waabinokwe)
Cheryl Doreen (Sherer, James) Kauppi (Waabinokwe), 73, of Grand Portage, Minnesota, passed peacefully into the spirit world, on Sunday, February 9, 2020. She was born August 26, 1946, to Kenneth and Dorothy (Clark) Sherer in Grand Portage, Minnesota. Cheryl married her devoted husband, Lonny L. Kauppi, on August 3, 1985, in Duluth, Minnesota. Cheryl, Lonny, and their little dog Bo, […]
Public Health Community Outreach and Maternal Child Health Programming
Since 1998, Cook County PHHS and Sawtooth Mountain Clinic staff have worked in partnership to provide community health outreach services, Child and Teen Checkups, Women, Infants and Children (WIC) nutrition support, and the Statewide Health Improvement Partnership (SHIP). In 2018, this expanded to include the universal family home visiting program, and earlier this year, Clinic staff began providing evidence-based nurse […]
Historical Reflections
Horse drawn sled carries mailman as he plays cupid and delivers Valentines. He might be less crabby about it if someone had given him a Valentine!
Down Memory Lane
20 YEARS AGOFEBRUARY 14, 2000 The presidential election of 2000 may just have to take a back seat to a county referendum to make all county restaurants smoke-free. A Lutsen resident is collecting signatures on a petition to support a smoke-free restaurant ordinance for the county and city of Grand Marais. So far, about a third of the signatures needed […]
2019 Shipping Season Summary: Grain gain, heavy lifts boost tonnage totals
Cargo volume exceeded 33.5 million short tons at the Port of Duluth-Superior for the 2019 shipping season, ranking as the port’s third highest throughput since 2015. Four of the port’s six cargo categories notched season-over-season tonnage gains. General cargo, comprised of project cargoes, breakbulk and heavy-lift industrial pieces, led the way with a tenfold tonnage increase. Wind energy cargo arrivals […]
Can you help solve a mystery?
Art Round Town (A’RT), a Cook County non-profit, began documenting and researching public art last fall. The organization’s mission is to “promote public art by chronicling its past and facilitating its creation and preservation.” Their plan was to collect images, information and stories about a variety of public art so that it could be shared with the community and visitors. […]