Former CCHS graduate a finalist for Minnesota 2020 NAESP National Distinguished Principal
Nancy (Lyght) Antoine is one of three finalists for the Minnesota 2020 National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) National Distinguished Principal award. The daughter of Willis and Muriel Lyght, Nancy grew up in Lutsen and graduated from Cook County High School in 1982. Following her graduation from Moorhead State, Nancy began a career in education that has lasted 33 […]
Cook County Food Shelf remains open
With the grocery stores having record sales days, it’s easy to forget that not everyone has the money to stock up on groceries. For some, this time of year is especially hard because they make their living working in restaurants, bars, hotels, and performing other types of service industry work, most of which is now shut down. That’s where the […]
Stuck between two worlds
Teuvo Nupponen had an interesting dilemma. He came by the Cook County News-Herald on Thursday morning, March 19, hoping we could help him solve a problem. He was stuck between two worlds, and he needed to find a place to stay for about a week until things settled down. The retired Thunder Bay man looked fit enough to run marathons […]
Supporting local grocery workers on the frontlines
If you’ve been to a grocery store in the last week, from the Twin Cities metropolis to small town Grand Marais, you’ve felt the frantic energy and high levels of stress as a shopper. But for the folks running cash registers or restocking shelves well after midnight, the job of going to work every day has changed dramatically. Absorbing communal […]
It’s time for an economic system that prioritizes ordinary folks
Main Street has been gutted by Wallstreet plenty of times. It is past time we bucked the trend. Any COVID-19 stimulus package must prioritize working people above corporate interests. Trickle down doesn’t work when lobbyists and cronies get special filters and ordinary people are left to hope a few dollars will condense out of corporate goodwill. We’ve seen the Republican […]
Highway 61 project should be put on hold
I grew up at my family’s resort on Devil’s Track Lake above the town of Grand Marais, Minnesota. The tourist industry is and has been the breadbasket of this area before I was born over 65 years ago. My grandfather built our family resort in the 1920’s. Winters for many businesses and folks can be months of scraping and scratching […]
Legislative proposals on the docket
Exempting Social Security income Minnesota is one of thirteen states that continues to impose tax on Social Security income. Beginning in 2017, however–with considerable bipartisan support– Minnesota enacted senior tax relief with a Social Security “subtraction” (the process of taking a quantity away from another under specific rules to obtain the difference) that departed from federal tax treatment of these […]
Can we use this crisis to find a better way?
As our perspective on “normal life” is drastically changing, we are living a paradox. While we cooperate to isolate ourselves, we are protecting our neighbors. By disconnecting from normal contact, we are sacrificing our ease and convenience in order to unite as a community and truly “Love our neighbors as ourselves.” My distress in recent times has been over the […]
The Word
The coronavirus pandemic is upon us, creating an environment very few, if any, of us in this county/country has experienced. The physical effects were pointing mostly to older adults but are now being seen in the 20 somethings who thought they were impervious. Schools have closed, businesses have closed and socializing in general has become limited. With churches being closed, […]