The Cook County/ Silver Bay Junior Legion baseball team traveled to Aurora on Tuesday, July 27 to face the Cherry Tiger’s Junior Legion team in a night game played under the lights. While the Vikings played well, they ran into a red hot pitcher and an equally strong relief pitcher. After a scoreless first period Cherry pushed one run across […]
Fishermen Picnic Fun Run back this year, but the deadline to sign up is drawing near!
The traditional Fisherman’s Picnic Run at Pincushion (hosted by the North Superior Ski and Run Club) will be an in-person event this year. It’s anybody’s guess as to who will race. A couple of years ago, Joe Klecker won the Tofte Trek fivemile race and today he is an Olympian, representing the U.S. in Tokyo in the 10,000-meter run. Will […]
Beaver Bay privacy
So, you’re on your way home from “Down the Shore” and you get hungry and thirsty after passing Two Harbors. Being new to the area, you consult your map program. Voila: it recommends the Beaver Bay Club, located right behind the Green Door muni bar and liquor store on Highway 61. Wrong!! You got an address on Club Road showing […]
The art of fly fishing, and baseball
In the days of high summer, in the tourist times, the fishing times, I instructed people in the rather odd, really difficult techniques of fly-casting, the casting of a fly in order to catch fish. I always started off the instructions on grass. Meaning we learned to cast on sod or as near to it as we could get that […]
Crews will survey streams to find lampreys
The continuing battle against sea lampreys soon will come to locations in the local area. A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service assessment crew will conduct work on Knife, Gooseberry and Split Rock Rivers August 3-12, 2021 to estimate the abundance of sea lampreys. The information gathered will be used to determine the need for sea lamprey control. A first step […]
DNR reminds anglers to be aware of northern pike zone regulations
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources reminds anglers who might want to keep northern pike to familiarize themselves with the regulations and be prepared to measure the fish. Minnesota has three northern pike zones that apply to inland waters and reflect the differing characteristics of pike populations across the state: North-central: Limit of 10 northern pike, but not more than […]
Goodnight, Absalom! presented at Grand Marais Rec Park September 5
A Twin-Cities based circus/ puppet/dance/art organization focused on compelling storytelling and social change will be coming to the Grand Marais Rec Park on September 5 for a 7:30 p.m. show. This show is free to all-ages and open to the public, but a hat will be passed for donations. Director Nat Allister said, “We’ve just finished building an 18’ traveling […]
Ode to the Rock
Consider the rock. Earth, the third rock from the sun, is a big rock. Our big rock of a planet is covered with a bunch of small rocks. Rocks, as I understand them from my dispassionate Google search, are basically lava that cooled down, quickly, slowly, or underground and are categorized as igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. Also, the big ones […]
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From July 10-15, there was a Minnesota Children’s Press (MCP) inaugural Children’s Publishing Conference — PubCon 1 — with an emerging young authors’ workshop held at Naniboujou. This event featured keynote addresses by (pictured above) Brenda Marsh, Executive at Abrams & Chronicle books in London and New York, and Johnathan Weiss of Oxford University Press, London, and New York. They […]
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 […]