June 18, 2024 - On June 11, 2024, the Minnesota Aviation Hall of Fame announced that Clarence J. Krotz, a WWII bomber pilot and founder of the first airport in Cook County, will be inducted in 2025.
Cook County Public Health and Human Services, in collaboration with the Cook County YMCA, is offering 400 free day passes to local youth through the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) grant. This grant is a consortium partnership that includes several other local and regional service providers, each of our local schools and Cook County Higher Ed. The grant focuses on substance use prevention, treatment, and recovery. Through our prevention work, providing local youth with safe and accessible options to spend their summer days is an important piece to promoting protective factors that help prevent and reduce substance use.
VikingsVision.org provides residents with information on the district’s proposed plan to invest in learning spaces, athletics, and infrastructure upgrades. Cook County Schools has updated its facilities planning website – VikingsVision.org – to provide district residents with information about a bond referendum on the ballot this November.
“Huge” is measured in quantity and weight, truckloads and pounds. On Saturday, June 8, multiple truckloads of trash weighing hundreds of pounds were collected by 109 volunteers walking the entire 57 miles of the Gunflint Trail.
BRIAN LARSEN After months of seeking input from the community and staff at I.S.D. 166 on ways to improve the school facilities, the school board voted to seek up to $36.78 million in a fall, 2024 building bond referendum.
BRIAN LARSEN Despite the attempt to disrupt the annual Cook County Pride Fest celebration, the spirit of the event prevailed. A bomb threat, originating from Russia, was reported at around 10:30 a.m.
Judith (Judy) Stone, 74, of Roseville, Minnesota, passed away peacefully in her…
Strikepoint, an internationally-acclaimed handbell ensemble based in Duluth, will be performing at…
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