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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 $150 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.
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.