The Viking girls’ volleyball team is again off to a great start, defeating Duluth Marshall 3-0 on Thursday, September 1 and then coming back to beat the Silver Bay Mariners 3-0 on Wednesday, September 7. Both games were played at home in front of a packed house. Duluth Marshall put up a good fight, but the Vikings took the first... READ MORE >
The Cook County High School Vikings opened their season at home Sept. 2 on Lyle Anderson Field against the Esko Eskomos and lost to their rival 42-14. Although disappointed, Head Coach Mitch Dorr said, “I thought Kale Boomer ran hard and with purpose and I thought Bradley VanDoren really fought hard on the offensive and defensive line. “Mike Sjogren also... READ MORE >
Whew! It took the better part of three months, but Ann Raiho and Natalie Warren did something no other women have done before: they paddled 2,250 miles from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay, following the route Eric Sevareid and William Port completed 81 years ago and chronicled in a book, Canoeing with the Cree, written by Sevareid. Warren, from Miami, Florida,... READ MORE >
With the loss of 10 kids—many of them leaders—the Vikings boys’ and girls’ cross-country running team is in a rebuilding year. But with 31 kids running this fall, the youthful harriers have some talent. “As the season progresses I expect the kids to improve. They are already starting to see the results of their summer workouts. We should be somewhere... READ MORE >
The Cook County High School Viking volleyball team looks like it will once again put a good group of players on the floor with six returning lettermen and a good nucleus of underclassmen who have stepped up their game and are ready to contribute to the varsity. Still, it will be hard to match last season’s record of 20 wins... READ MORE >
Bob Sample sounded exuberant, even excited on the phone. “Elaine and I are coming back to Grand Marais and opening a new business. It will be called Grand Marais Pharmacy,” he said. He and his wife, Elaine, project the opening of the new business to be on September 19—the exact date dependent on final inspections and regulatory approvals. It will... READ MORE >
Last weekend, August 19 and 20, 2011, the Cook County Community Center’s curling arena was transformed—filled with tables full of colorful displays of artwork, vegetables, flowers, crafts, needlework and baked goods. Beauty and hard work and high skills under one roof. Once again it was the handiwork of the Cook County Fair Committee and all of the people who entered... READ MORE >
Other than a bear trying to enter their tent (when they were sleeping), lightning blowing up a tree about 20 feet from their tent another night and the adrenaline rush of running Class 2 and Class 3 rapids on the Hayes River, not a lot out of the ordinary has happened to Ann Raiho and Natalie Warren as they make... READ MORE >
Lutsen Fire Chief Paul Goettl came before a packed house at continuation of the Lutsen Township Annual meeting on Tuesday, August 16 and told the people what a new addition to the town hall and fire hall might look like and what it could mean to the community, and what it would cost. Last March, Goettl and several other members... READ MORE >
After serving seven months in office as the Congressional Representative for the 8th Congressional District, Chip Cravaack said he doesn’t have all of the answers to the nation’s woes, but he does know one thing for sure, “We must cut out-of-control spending and rein in the federal deficit,” he told a crowd of about 30 people gathered at the Grand... READ MORE >
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