March 2024

Meet Zion B. Hartley

Zion is the son of Christina and Charles Conroy, Grand Marais. After high school Zion said he is “Planning to go to college, but who knows.” In closing, Zion said, “Thank you teachers for taking care of me.” .

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COUNTY CONNECTIONS

32nd Annual Cook County Emergency Services Conference For three decades Cook County Emergency Management has brought forth an Emergency Services Conference and this year will be no different. The 32nd offering of the Emergency Services Conference will be held in Grand Marais on April 19 and 20, 2024.

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Vikings do well in their first track meet of the season

The Polar League indoor meet was held on March 22 at the University of Wisconsin Superior (UWS) indoor track, and Cook County boys and girls had a very good first meet. Vikings Head Boys’ and Girls’ Track Coach April Wahlstrom said, “The first meet was awesome!” This year's CCHS squad might be the biggest ever, with about 30 girls and 50 boys participating in track and field.

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Outdoors

Every place has a place like this place I have this place that I go to near here, where in the spring the river is a river and it tries with all its force and wile and guile and tumult to flush the creek chubs and steelhead fries and steelhead smolt out to the great inland sea like some pod of goldfish flushed down the toilet. But this is a contest a myriad years old, and the little riverine fishes find cover from the current in the flooded bottoms, behind standing tree trunks, in the tuft grasses, in the flooded brush.

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God for the Doubters?

Because Pastor Enno is gone that day, I will be doing the sermon at First Congregational Church, UCC, on April 14th next; and I am mildly terrified. My last attempt to preach was a mostly easy talk about the importance of law to protect children. Before that I last tried to preach in 1964. Talk about unused muscles!

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