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Steve Rushin is Funny… And Thoughtful

I cannot recall having read a book that made me guffaw so much, in my mind and often aloud. While cruising Alaska’s Inside Passage, we stopped at Hoonah in the Icy Straights and visited the mostly Tlingit community there.

Birth Announcement

Wesley Jakob Weme was born at 8:30 a.m. on July 24, weighing six pounds five ounces and twenty inches long. Wesley is the son of Ariel and Brady Weme of Cloquet, Minnesota, and the great-grandchild of Butch Schulte, Grand Marais.

Down Memory Lane

10 YEARS AGO AUGUST 2, 2014 * The Grand Portage ambulance was paged at 4:15 p.m. on Tuesday, July 15 to respond to the Hat Point Marina in Grand Portage.

Power of Produce (PoP) Plus! for Seniors now Available

Thursdays at the Grand Marais Farmers Market! Power of Produce (PoP) Plus is a new program for seniors at the Grand Marais Farmers Market. The Cook County Community Center in partnership with the Northwoods Food Project, is introducing this new free program, which will be available at the Grand Marais Farmers Market every Thursday throughout the rest of the season.

Grand Marais Lions

Rob Wells, an RN and ambulance worker for North Shore Health, delivered a compelling presentation on the urgent opioid crises affecting our state and country at the July 26 Grand Marais Lions Club meeting.

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. The News-Herald shares these stories as a reminder to all to be safe and to follow the rules!

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 $125 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.