Sports & Outdoors

WILD COACH tough on staff and other hockey news! LARSMONT I consistently mention how much hockey I’ve seen over the years, from various vantage points. I restate it out of my love of the game and my pride for my time around it.

Local musher Jen Freking of Finland on the Beargrease Trail in a previous Beargrease. This year’s race begins this Sunday, January 30th in Duluth at Billy’s Bar. Photo courtesy of Heidi Pinkerton of Root River Photography

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.

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.