Straight out of a Sci-Fi movie, this golden oblong ice cube looks like it could be a telecommunication device used by aliens. Anyone looking up to see anything strange in the sky lately?
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Ruby’s Pantry Cook County Ruby’s Pantry, 2nd Tuesday of the month food distribution 5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m., $25 (cash only) Sponsored by Spirit of the Wilderness Church. Ruby’s Pantry will now be at the Cook County High School, near football field. No financial or other qualifications—this is surplus food for all! Cook County Higher Education Career training and college […]
Pet of the Week
Pet of the Week celebrates pets, past and present. Please share some of your favorite photos with all of us. If you bring a photo to the newspaper office, we can create a quality digital image with the scanner and give the photo right back to you. If you mail a photo to the newspaper office, we are careful to […]
Gene’s Foods Family Game Night
If you want to spice up your life with a little fun, then come to Gene’s Foods. Once again the Grand Marais grocery store is hosting a two-week family game night drawing. “We provide the pop, popcorn and games, and you provide the family,” said Sherri Lashinski. Some of the games this year are Ticket to Ride, New York, Pancake […]
Locals compete in the 2023 American Birkebeiner
Cook County cross country skiers joined a record field of more than 13,000 skiers who raced in one of several events at the 2023 American Birkebeiner in northern Wisconsin. The events ran from Wednesday, February 22 with the long races held February 25. Perfect snow greeted Nordic skiers who traveled from all ends of the planet to compete in either […]
Boys fall to Carlton and Marshall
On March 2 the Viking boys’ team traveled to Carlton to play the Bulldogs and lost 86-68. The following day the Marshall Hilltoppers came to town and beat the Vikings 78-63. Carlton Bulldogs Sophomore guard Denali Blackwell was the only Viking to score in double figures, finishing the game with 29 points. Blackwell was 11 of 19 from the field […]
Annual Trout Derby draws nice crowd, lots of fish caught
Jeff Eliasen, Grand Marais, won $500 at the Cook County Snowmobile Club-Ridge Riders annual Trout Derby for his lake trout weighing 6.96 pounds. Jeff must have had a special bait or was fishing a “honey hole” because he also caught the sixth largest fish weighed in during the contest. The annual trout derby was held on Gunflint Lake on Saturday, […]
Cook County Historical Society needs help identifying photos
Do you know who these volleyball players are? And what year the picture was taken? I bet some of you do. Please send the names of the kids from left to right to history@boreal.org.
Breathe Less
So, the good news is that we’re still breathing— you as you read this and me as I write it. The bad news is that we’re breathing too much through our mouths. Who knew? I have minor lung damage from pneumonia, so when a friend recommended, I read Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor, I […]
The future is… now?
Disclaimer. Everything in italics was written by ChatGPT. There’s a new toy/tool in town. It’s called ChatGPT. The “chat” part is self-explanatory and GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer. Got that? No? Well, neither do I. Basically ChatGPT is Artificial Intelligence or, for short, AI. The concept of AI has always been sci-fi cool, futuristic, and scary. Hal 9000 from […]