November 2024

Minnesota Department of Health honors Sawtooth Mountain Clinic dental program with 2024 Rural Health Team Award

The Minnesota Department of Health and its rural health partners today awarded its prestigious 2024 Rural Health Team Award to the Sawtooth Mountain Clinic’s Oral Health Task Force (OHTF). The OHTF team will be honored during the 2025 Minnesota Rural Health Conference in Duluth June 9-10, 2025 The OHTF works to provide dental care, regardless of income, to every child to age 26, every pregnant woman and every senior over 65 years in Cook County and on the Grand Portage Reservation.

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Conservation Officer Tales

Although the Cook County News-Herald knows that the majority of sportsmen and women are law-abiding folks, there are a few that run afoul of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Conservation Officers. Periodically, the DNR provides a report of some of the miscreants the Conservation Officers (CO) have encountered.

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