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With the warmer temperatures, Wood ducks are returning to the North Shore. Pictured above, the males have green crested heads with chestnut-colored breasts and other bold markings. The females are brown with a gray head that is slightly less crested than the heads of the males. Females also have dark blue on their wings. Wood ducks are among the most […]
Father Daniel Felton named Bishop for Duluth Diocese
On Wednesday, April 7, the Holy See announced that Pope Francis has named the Very Reverend Daniel Felton of the Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin, to become the tenth bishop of the Diocese of Duluth. His episcopal ordination and installation as Bishop of Duluth have been set for May 20. Bishop-elect Felton, who has served as vicar general and moderator […]
Park board discusses master plan
With summer coming fast, the Grand Marais Park board met to discuss the upcoming work on the boat launch area, demolition of the dog pound and old maintenance building, and the Community Connection landing that may have to wait until next spring to be completed. Also discussed was the park’s master plan, which hasn’t been upgraded in quite a few […]
A talk with State Senator Tom Bakk
Broadband, budgets and the border were on the agenda for a conversation with Senator Tom Bakk (Independent) this past week. The senator serves on the Capital Investment, Redistricting, Taxes, and Rules and Administration committees. Tom was elected to the House in 1992 and served until 2002 when he won a seat in the Senate. He is now in his sixth […]
Cook County News-Herald can now be heard on a podcast
Would you like to listen to the newspaper rather than read it? You now have the option of listening to the news on your smartphone or computer with podcasts. You can listen to the news and take care of other things at the same time. CEO Matt Larson of Our-Hometown Inc., a web development company that works to build digital […]
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From the Pincushion Mountain overlook, Dave Johnson photographed the formation of clouds from Lake Superior on a bitterly cold winter day. The winter clouds bunched, gathered and spread across the Grand Marais Harbor.
The mysterious epidemic from outer space
When I was floundering through my inelegant junior high years, I happened to attend my school’s Halloween dance. Instead of subjecting my gangly frame to the perils of the parquet dance floor, however, I slipped into the auditorium and watched the selected feature movie for the event: “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.” Released in February of 1956, the black and […]
Open up
Wearing a mask is detrimental to your good health: it traps carbon dioxide that you exhale and prohibits you from getting the oxygen you need for your cell’s immunity. The vaccines big pharma wants you to take do not have any dead covid viruses in it, so it is really not a vaccine at all. Wearing masks, taking the so-called […]
Back the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act
I’m not given to writing editorials; instead, preferring to let folks make up their minds on a wide array of subjects without inserting my opinions. However, when it comes to the disappearance of newspapers, this topic touches home. In the Northland, we have seen the Two Harbors Lake County News Chronicle shuttered. The Duluth News-Tribune, the area’s largest paper, has […]