Charles Christianson has been teaching swimming lessons to Sawtooth Mountain elementary students for 20 years.

For anyone born in 1980 or later, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources requires hunters to have Firearm Safety instruction.

Cook County Community Education is once again offering the class "Fathers Are Needed" (FAN), for dads of all ages.

The Cook County Ramble that I mentioned last week was a huge success.  It brought many of Cook County’s talented musicians to Cascade Lodge Pub to pay musical tribute to the life of Levon H

Every spring, 5^th grade Sawtooth Mountain Elementary students travel to Wolf Ridge Environmental Center for a winter learning experience.

The calendar says spring, but our north country landscape indicates otherwise.  At the time of this keyboard exercise, little progress has been made on recognizing spring characteristics.

Deane Morrison is a science writer at the University of Minnesota, where she authors the Minnesota Starwatch column.

 Feeding the birds outside your living room window is almost taken for granted here in the West End.  Watching birds at the feeder is such constant part of life that it often takes a visitor

Johnson Loud Jr. is a potter, a painter, and an Episcopal Priest who has served his parish at Prairie Island, Minnesota for 15 years. He is from the Red Lake Ojibwe Reservation in Northern Minnesota.

Do you remember when you started middle school?  Do you remember the beginning of Jr.