The Cook County News-Herald is proud to announce that Andy Butter has been hired to work at the newspaper in a variety of capacities. Andy will work in ad sales as well as cover meetings and write features for the newspaper. If you need help with an ad or have a story idea for the newspaper, email Andy at heraldads@boreal.org
Andy Butter, a 2010 Cook County High School graduate, has been hired to work at the Cook County News- Herald.
Butter’s first day was October 31.
With a background in writing and personality smooth as, well, warm butter, Andy will take on two roles at the newspaper, helping with stories and assisting with ad sales.
Andy majored in Creative Writing, Sociology and Social Justice at Northland College located in Ashland, Wisconsin. He graduated in December 2014 and then moved to Maine to work as a Wilderness Trip Leader; following that experience he spent three winter months backpacking in South America. Never one to let moss grow under his feet, Andy joined two college friends and spent the summer running around Lake Superior, averaged 20 miles per day over 86 days, covering a little more than 1,300 miles.
When asked why he decided to run around the lake, Andy replied, “Allissa Stutte and Evan Flom and I just wanted to do it. Before we started, we partnered with Adventure Scientists and agreed to take one-liter water samples from nine different locations around the lake from urban areas and wilderness areas. We sent the samples to Adventure Scientists so they could examine them for microplastics.”
The results of those tests are on Google maps— through the crowdsource database— “which will have little markers where we took the samples,” said Butter.
Following his epic run, Andy returned home and worked at Angry Trout for the last two months. Now that the Trout has closed, Andy was ready and willing to take on a new adventure, that of a newspaper reporter/ad salesman.
Andy is the son of Charlie and Sue Butter, Grand Marais. He has two older brothers Josh and Ben who both live and work in Duluth. As a teen, he played drums for a couple of bands and cultivated a love of the outdoors. During his downtime — if that’s what it can be called – he likes to write poetry and dabbles in creative writing.
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