A bustling two-story restaurant in a city center. On the mezzanine, ROB sees CUPID, 30s, black suit, white shirt, no tie, sitting at table overlooking the floor below. ROB: Excuse me. Cupid? CUPID: (loud whisper) Yeah, yeah. It’s me. Sit. Quick. Rob quickly sits across from him. Cupid sips from his half-full martini. R: (loud whisper) What’s… What’s going on? […]
Three CCHS Vikings attend football camp
As any fan of history knows, Vikings were, above all else, hardworking farmers who cultivated crops and raised livestock. They planned, paid attention to detail, and worked very hard on individual skills and teamwork to survive and thrive, a great model for sports teams to use. On February 18, three of the Cook County Vikings’ Football Team members attended the […]
Section 7: Strongest in the State: Olya Wright places 14th
The state of Minnesota divides 92 schools into 8 sections for cross country skiing. Cross country skiing is unique in the sense that no matter the size of their school all skiers compete in the same state meet. This means skiers from a Division A (smaller schools) compete head-to-head against Division AA. Everyone skis in the same race. Which puts […]
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Snow and wind on February 20th did not keep these Cook County women from enjoying Pincushion’s Annual Women’s Ski. Kneeling in front from L-R: Mona Hunter, Judy Johnson, Kate Walters, Kathy McClure, Angie Robinson. Standing in back from L-r are Jane Alexander, Jill Barber, Carol Bennett, Gini Danfelt, Lesa Hofer, Maureen Hays, Dawn Wenck and Nancy Haarmeyer.
A Winter Cure: Cur(e)ling?
Our six-plus-month winter season gives us plenty of opportunity to think, read, write–and for many–leave town. For those staying, pickleball and curling provide options for all ages. We’ve written of pickleball enough that a fellow columnist has taken caustic note. So today we focus on curling which you can do all along the North Shore. More on that below. My […]
Love those Turks
I’m writing about Turkey this week, my beloved second home. While teaching there I met the kindest, warmest people I’ve ever known. They put Minnesota Nice to shame. In my memoir about those years, you must only to love them, I recounted many tales of their kindness, from the bus driver who left his passengers to walk me across an […]
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 […]
Matters of Record
The Cook County News-Herald publishes Matters of Record to inform the public of arraignments and dispositions of criminal cases in which the punishment exceeds $150 and/or ten days in jail and/or includes one year of supervised adult probation. It is the Cook County News-Herald’s policy that this information contains a complete record. Requests for items to be withheld will not […]