Grand Marais Recreation Park Director Dave Tersteeg reports that the August 2024 park revenue outpaced August 2023 revenue by 1.8 percent. That increase pushed the overall year-to-date total to a 1.3 percent gain over 2023.
Jocelyn Bowman Thornton, the niece of Cap and Billie Peterson, has written a captivating story about the couple's life in her book, At the End of the Caribou. The book, published by the Cook County Historical Society, is filled with pictures taken by the couple as they slowly built their lives in the northland on Tait Lake.
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.
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!
We all do better… My erstwhile hero Paul Wellstone once said, “We all do better when we all do better.” I’d like to add one more word—together. My dream is that we stop pointing fingers at the “other” and look at the many ways we can work together to make our community— and the world—a better place.
After almost two months of uncertainty, Lessie's journey of survival and resilience has finally come to a heartwarming end. Where has she been? And what has this poor dog gone through in the last 55 days?
The Cook County Vikings girls' volleyball team demonstrated its resilience and got off to a great start in the 2024 season with a non-conference win over the always-tough Cherry Tiger volleyball team in an exciting 3-5 contest that saw several games go to the wire.
I went to hear William Kent Krueger at Drury Lane Books last weekend, a fine experience that reflected why we live here. The occasion was promotion of Krueger’s latest Cork O’Connor novel, More than 100 Grand Maraisians brought camp and lawn chairs to the event next to The Lake.
Hydrogen Peroxide I don’t normally like to consider chemistry. Mostly because I don’t know the first thing about chemistry.