ISD 166 campus gets air filtration system
The Detroit Lions football team training facilities and ISD 166 school building share some of the same components. Technicians who were working on improving air filtration for the Detroit Lions brought some needed tubing from that job to Cook County for the school’s project, said Tom Nelson, who heads up the ISD 166 maintenance department. And now that the work […]
Message from the Executive Publisher
I would like to take a moment to clear up some incorrect information that has been reported regarding the new ownership of the Cook County News-Herald. CherryRoad Technologies Inc., more specifically our media division, CherryRoad Media Inc., acquired the paper. CherryRoad’s current corporate entity was formed in 2006. However, the company existed in another corporate entity going back to 1983. […]
Snow Angels, time for a new record?
Calling all of Minnesota. Right about now, my fellow Minnesotans are probably stuck inside, sad and desperate for something to do. Can’t go to restaurants. Can’t go to the movies. Bars are closed. Youth sports have been shut down, so you can’t go to games. Your eyes are blurry from all of the reading and TV watching. At least mine […]
Watch out for scams!
Back in 2015, the Cook County News-Herald was notified that an elderly Cook County gentleman had received a phone call purportedly from his grandson. His “grandson” said he was in trouble, in jail, saying he had been set up and he needed money to get out. He pleaded with his “grandfather” not to tell grandma. Just go to the bank […]
Photo
There are still some moose around, but you have to be a little bit lucky to see them. This fellow was standing just off of the Gunflint Trail, not too far from Trail Center. While there aren’t as many moose as there used to be in northern Minnesota, they can surprise you if you aren’t careful when you are driving. […]
11,760 acres of land may be restored to Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
After passing the U.S. House of Representatives today, legislation authored by U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and U.S. Representative Betty McCollum (MN-04) to restore over eleven thousand acres of wrongly seized land to the Leech Lake Reservation is headed to the President’s desk to be signed into law. “My colleague Representative McCollum and I worked to right this wrong and […]
The future of democracy
In 1831, for nine short but adventurous months, a 26-year-old French aristocrat traversed America with his colleague and friend Gustave de Beaumont, a young French lawyer and prison magistrate. Officially commissioned by the French government to study the American prison system, the two young Europeans used their official business as a pretext to study American society instead. The young nobleman’s […]
Hope
My kids are so done with the COVID-19 pandemic. The fun of not going to school wore off months ago. They want to just be able to see their friends, get hugs from grandmas and grandpas, run with their cousins, see the world beyond Tofte, and be free of the paralysis that COVID- 19 inflicts us all with. This global […]