North House Kicks off 2025 with First Fridays Community Nights

Winter and spring bring a slower pace for many Cook County residents after the busy tourism and holiday seasons. New this January, North House Folk School is launching First Fridays, a program that welcomes community members to campus on the first Friday evening of each month.

Zebra Mussels in Red Lake

Red Lake is Minnesota’s largest inland lake covering over 288,000 acres. It’s now infested with zebra mussel larvae. In 2019 the DNR announced they had found zebra mussels, the tiny larvae in Upper Red Lake. Many suspect that it was brought in by boaters traveling between lakes. If people in Minnesota start following the recommendation to check their boats for Zebra mussels when they pull them out of the water, then boat inspection should become mandatory.