With the first football game scheduled for this Friday night, workouts have begun in earnest for the Vikings. This year’s squad has 28 players on the team with seniors Aram Falter and Vaughn Swindlehurst named captains. The Vikings will play a six game regular season schedule and there will be a sectional tournament, but no state tournament this year.
Park board considers adding disc golf at Gunflint Hills
No doubt, disc golf is a growing phenomenon. It’s cheap, fun to play and you don’t need any special equipment. No fancy brand-name shoes, no jersey, clubs, gloves, sticks, skates, balls or bats, rackets or courts, all you need is an ordinary Frisbee to join in. Adam Mella is a big proponent of the sport. He came before the park […]
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Looking quite comfortable, this bear was recently spotted eating apples while perched in this apple tree located near Arrowhead Electric in Lutsen.
2019 small game harvest numbers up despite fewer licenses being sold
The small game hunter mail survey by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources estimated that slightly fewer small game licenses were sold in 2019 than the previous year, continuing a downward trend in overall license sales for the past 20 years. Despite fewer ruffed grouse and ring-necked pheasant hunters, hunters harvested more grouse and pheasants in 2019 and successful hunters […]
Cook County Law Enforcement briefs
It is the policy of the Cook County News-Herald to withhold the identities of individuals in Cook County Law Enforcement briefs. When court proceedings are complete, the Cook County News- Herald publishes a complete accounting of names and penalties in its Matters of Record. Tuesday, September 156:49 a.m. Grand Marais:Fifth Avenue West, publicassistance. Provided trafficcontrol for the drive-thruflu shot event.8:56 […]
Autumn leaves fall
The autumn leaves driftby my window;the autumn leaves of redand gold. Those are the lyrics of an old song, as I remember them. I’ve been humming this tune a lot recently, inspired by the colors of the leaves. Everyone agrees that this autumn has been spectacular and the beauty long lasting. I don’t remember another year when the fall colors […]
Rivers, as with life, ebb and flow
One bridge over the River Kwai has been of concern to us for more than 60 years. It was a Japanese- and British-made bridge on the Thai-Burmese frontier that spanned a river valley of very old topography and very young strata – that is, the remnants of things gone and the accumulation of things new – over a river that […]
Nature Conservancy acquires Superior National Forest inholdings
On Wednesday, October 7, the Nature Conservancy announced it had acquired 2,110 acres near the Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness Area comprising wild lakes, trout streams and large white pines and white spruce —all within the Superior National Forest. The lands are located within a 30,000-acre block of largely intact and mature forest in Cook County on the edge of the […]
Silver Bay Veterans Home has new administrator
After serving as administrator at the Minnesota Veterans Home – Silver Bay for 12 years, Carol Gilbertson retired in early September. Carol will be remembered for her innovation, creativity and the ability to identify and create roles to fill gaps in care, such as the creation of positions that promote engagement, safety and quality of life at all times of […]
