The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources encourages boater owners to renew expired watercraft registrations before this year’s boating season. Boater owners are encouraged to renew registrations online or at a local deputy registrar’s office rather than by mail. If they renew online, they can print out the confirmation page to use as their temporary permit. Boaters also may write down […]
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 […]
Launched
Grandma Wellumson made concessions throughout her life, first adapting from horse-drawn wagons to cars when they moved to Minneapolis. She was loath to give up her old carpet sweeper when her children proudly gifted her an electric vacuum cleaner, but she did. No more carpet beating. She even adjusted to television—a leap from gathering around the Zenith console radio. Thank […]
April is for Fools
Coming back from Texas where bluebonnets were blooming and the grass was turning bright green to several inches of snow here in Minnesota felt like a prank. Not a ha-ha funny prank but a cruel joke. I was ready to start cleaning out the garden beds not scraping the ice from my windshield before work. (You know the drill, a […]
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. Monday, March 28 10:47 a.m. Gunflint Trail LEC: Assist another agency. Students were missing too many […]
Matters of Record
Dilipkumar Kamalkumr Tekwani, 28, incomplete address, entered an Amended Plea of Guilty on October 4, 2019, to a gross misdemeanor of Fifth Degree Possession of Drugs – Not Small Amount of Marijuana, on September 23, 2019. Conditions of behavior were required. Court Decision Continued on October 4, 2019. Amended Disposition Dismissed (Conditions Met or Expired) on April 6, 2022. Fines […]
Water monitoring volunteers needed for Cook County
As spring arrives in Minnesota, it’s time for the state to kick off its popular program that relies on Minnesota residents to help monitor its 12,000 plus lakes and 92,000 plus miles of streams. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) is now recruiting volunteers to measure water clarity in numerous lakes and streams in Cook County – including several high-priority […]
Grand Portage Community ICARE research project
The Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Community has been actively participating in the ICARE research project, which is being conducted as a collaboration between the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus, the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, and American Indian and First Nation community members in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ontario. The ICARE research project partnership aims to […]
