NSH Facts for Us
While waiting to see if the North Shore Health (“NSH”) Board begins to take the seriously the recent critiques, I perused the contract between St. Luke’s system and NSH.
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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.
Goodbye Gunflint Mercantile, hello Chocolate Dog
BRIAN LARSEN A much-loved sweet delicacy store is leaving downtown Grand Marais. After 13 years, Gunflint Mercantile owner Chelsea Pusc has decided to try something different.
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.
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!
Art with Traditional Library Materials
“This is you having fun!” exclaims Minnesota artist Mary Mulari in the instructional video for the upcoming Library Card Record Book Take and Create Art Kit, available throughout March at your local library. Mulari has just glued on a quotation from provided clip art onto a vintage-style library book pocket.
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.
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.
CCCCH: NSH Board Blows It
Most of us do not have time to read everything that comes to our attention. That includes insufficient time to read all the communications from and about North Shore Health's (NSH') recent paroxysms.
Lake Associations make a difference
CARRIE FRAMSTAD Cook County Coalition of Lake Associations(CCCoLA) had a busy and successful year in 2023. CCCoLA is dedicated to protecting the quality of the waters and shorelands we value in Cook County.