Two Harbors high school girls basketball team suffered only its sixth loss of the season Tuesday night, losing 54-53 at home to nonconference Eveleth-Gilbert. The Agates (10-6) will visit nonconference Greenway (5-10) on Thursday at 7:15 p.m.
Welcome to the Lake County Press! In what has been a whirl of a process to get a newspaper to homes across Lake County I can only say that I never thought I’d be at the editor’s desk again. Well, at this writing I don’t have a desk quite yet or even a chair but none of that matters at this point.
Katie Lancaster’s review of “The Sentence” by Louise Erdrich, published by Harper Collins in November, 2021. In brief, The Sentence is the story of a Minneapolis bookstore haunted by their most annoying former customer, but the story is so much more than a ghost story.
CherryRoad Media started a new venture into small newspaper ownership in 2020, and since then has expanded to owning nearly 40 papers throughout the country, including the Lake County Press in Two Harbors.
As many are working on goals and resolutions for the new year, I send a bit of hope and encouragement to everyone, through a simple reminder. Pack your 2022 with nature and feel the improvement.
As I look out my window at the deepening snowpack–28 inches as I write– and an array of northern birds at the feeder gobbling up the sunflower seeds in the subzero cold, I’m happy to be a small part of a new, local paper. I’ll be writing occasionally on subjects relating mostly to the outdoors and environmental issues–lifelong passions of mine–but will occasionally drift into other topics of local concern as well. I have some strong opinions on issues I care and know about, and I promise that you, the reader, likely won’t agree with all of them.
Although the Lake County Press 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 Lake County Press shares these stories as a reminder to all to be safe and to follow the rules!
The January 2 Isabella Christmas Bird Count, our 40 , ranked fourth on our list of coldest count days. Starting temperatures ranged from - 32° F in the lowlands on the west side of the circle to a relatively balmy - 20° at the count’s highest elevation on the east side. High temps there reached 6°, but elsewhere in the circle it struggled to get to 0°. Fortunately, it wasn’t windy and the sun shone all day.
On Friday, January 21, the North Shore Nordic Ski Team (a joint Two Harbors/ Cook County team) participated in a ski meet at Pincushion Ski trails on the Gunflint Trail. The North Shore team Varsity Girls got 4th place as a team, with Olya Wright placing first, Autumn Smith placing 6th, and Lamar Gordon placing 17th. The Boys Varsity team got 5th place, with Cyrus Myers placing 11th and Ian Thorpe placing 16th.
The dedicated folks in the Camp Shack pressroom were giddy with excitement. A newspaper would again be printed in the building they had occupied like orphans since the old paper was shut down years ago. They hadn’t been on the job since the press was idled in 1998.