February 2024

Looking for a Home

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 return them to you. Mailing address is Cook County News Herald, PO Box 757, Grand Marais MN 55604-0757. Digital images can be emailed to ccnh@boreal.org Thank you!

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COUNTY CONNECTIONS

Andrea Orest Public Health Educator Cook County Public Health and Human Services Avoiding Substance Misuse: Risk and protective factors We are all influenced by our environment every day. Some of these influences create a positive effect and some produce a negative effect.

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One more plunge, one more tattoo

For Bryann Bockovich, the February 17th Polar Plunge in Duluth meant she would get her 14th tattoo to celebrate the annual event. This time, though, the journey to Duluth or the Twin Cities, where she has also taken part in polar plunges, would be a bit longer because the former Grand Marais resident now lives in Hudson, Florida.

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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 be granted.

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Wildlife Matters

It is quite common for the male of a species to be larger and heavier than the female. This also holds true for the entire deer family. Part of my examinations of deer, bear and moose carcasses involved recording both whole and field dressed weights of many of them. Vehicle impact, or other factors, sometimes prevented being able to obtain weights, especially whole weights.

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BEYOND REASON

A Leap of Faith For those without nuanced understanding of the difference between the Julian Calendar and the Gregorian Calendar, I envy you. For the rest you, this column is your cross to bear.

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