Puppy love


The saying goes like this, although I try not to write with clichés. “You may not get the dog you want, but you’ll get the dog you need.” My brother has a yard at his big house on Highway 61 in Grand Marais. A big yard. Mown. With planted tall red pines and planted stunted red oaks, and tall spruce […]

The Thanksgiving Turkey that almost wasn’t


Thanksgiving Day, 2020, I spent most of the morning prepping and roasting a turkey. I used my mother’s technique: cover the breast and legs with cheesecloth, rub butter everywhere, then pour the juice of one orange in the turkey cavity and bake at 400F for half an hour. Turn down the heat and roast until the meat almost falls off […]

2021 LCCMR recommendations for the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund


Out of 329 proposals totaling $240 million, the Legislative-Citizen Committee on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR) selected 87 projects totaling $70,881,000 to recommend to the Minnesota legislature for funding from the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund. While none of the ventures were exclusively for Cook County, some will include work here, and many are of some interest to those of us […]

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, November 101:00 a.m. Attempt to locate. Family member reportedthat a 35 year old male suffering from […]

Matters of Record

Blake Tanner Hagberg, 28, Buffalo, Minnesota, pled guilty on November 22, 2020, to a petty misdemeanor of transporting a loaded firearm for hunting on October 3, 2020. Fines and fees total $185. Trica Gene Delahunt, 48, Duluth, Minnesota, pled guilty on November 23, 2020, to a misdemeanor of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol (DWI) on October […]

Conservation Officer Tales

Although the Cook County News-Herald knows that the majority of sportsmen and women are law-abiding folks, there are a few that run afoul of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Conservation Officers. Periodically, the DNR provides a report of some of the miscreants the Conservation Officers (CO) have encountered. The News-Herald shares these stories as a reminder to all […]