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Undoubtedly, the number of folks swells far beyond the population of roughly 127 (as of the 2010 census) during the annual Wrong Days in Wright celebration. Events kicked off Friday evening with a variety of small-town events to bring people together, from a pie social to kids' games and OGNIB (bingo spelled backward), concluding with a fireworks display at dusk. The annual steak fry was so popular that they were sold out of potatoes by 6 p.m., and the crowd stayed around to enjoy the Minnesota...
Summer festival season is upon us. This weekend Moose Lake and Wright will celebrate their signature events, with Agate Days running Saturday and Sunday and Wrong Days in Wright kicking off Friday. Wright may be the only city in Carlton County that can still claim an “annual” festival, as organizers there did not pause the Wrong Days in Wright celebration because of the pandemic. It was business as usual last year — with masks added to the mix — and it’s business as usual this year: think three days of smalltown fun for everyone. Check out...
Calling all artists, future artists and wannabe artists: Cloquet's West End is inviting you to bring your art supplies and sense of adventure to a West End Art Day on Saturday. Organized by artist Phyllis Ducey with assistance from a West End Flourish grant, the event is a way of getting art out into the community, specifically Fauley Park and Avenue C. There will be space on Avenue C for artists to set up and paint in the city's historic West End. "I'm hoping to have people sprawled out in the...
Sam Kavanaugh, a 2009 Carlton grad who recently won the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions, will have the seat of honor (likely in an antique fire truck) in the Carlton Daze parade at 1 p.m. July 25. Kavanaugh won a total of $156,202 on Jeopardy in 2019 during a five-day winning streak, which qualified him for this spring's Tournament of Champions, when 15 top performers came back to the Jeopardy stage for the chance to win $250,000. Kavanaugh credits his teacher parents and going to school in...
On top of 34 awards and a trophy for Most Outstanding Weekly Newspaper in the Better Newspaper Contest organized by the Minnesota Newspaper Association, the Pine Knot News recently won two more awards from the Minnesota Society for Professional Journalists for 2020 work. Competing in the category of newspapers with a circulation of under 50,000, newspaper page designer and reporter Mike Creger, editor Jana Peterson and other staff took third place in the category of Best Issue, for the entire issue from March 20 that focused on the rapidly...
Cloquet's Jake Schwinn is facing some hefty medical bills after a flash fire from a bonfire last month left him with first- and second-degree burns across his torso, hands and arms. Schwinn has no health insurance and had to take two weeks off while he was recovering before returning to work. A spaghetti feed benefit, including a quilt raffle (quilt pictured below), bake sale and silent auction, is scheduled for 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, July 17 at the Cloquet VFW on Arch Street....
A loyal reader stopped into the Pine Knot News office to chat the other day, and pointed out how few motorists understand the concept that a pedestrian has the right of way. We would like to remind all drivers that it's state law to stop for pedestrians in a crosswalk. But it's not just the law that we are promoting, it's common decency. When you see someone at a crosswalk, it's smart to slow down. If they step off the curb, you should stop. Pedestrians have to participate, too. It's...
Donald Arnold Seabury, 87, of Cloquet passed away July 9, 2021, at St. Luke's hospital. He was born to Walter and Elsie (Haderly) Seabury on Aug. 27, 1933, in Mellen, Wisconsin. Don married Marian Johnson on Aug. 31, 1957 in Cloquet. He was a lifetime member of the VFW, American Legion, and the Bricklayers union. Don was a bricklayer by trade and the owner-operator of his own company for many years. Don and Marian wintered in Mesa, Arizona, and were members of the Cloquet Country Club and...
Carol Jean (Johnson) Schubert, 82, of Cloquet passed away Saturday, July 10, 2021 after a brief illness, surrounded by the love of her family. She was born Dec. 18, 1938 in Superior, Wisconsin, and was preceded in death by her parents, John I. and Lillian (Wicken) Johnson, and husband, Harry L. Schubert. Carol graduated from Superior Central High School in 1957 and soon after was united in marriage to Harry on Aug. 10, 1957. They were married almost 50 years until his death in June 2007. Carol w...
Nancy Elaine Carlson, 70, of Cloquet passed away Thursday, July 8, 2021 in the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. Visitation: 11 a.m. until the 12 p.m. funeral service Saturday, July 17 in the Atkins Northland Funeral Home in Cloquet. Burial will be in Hillside Cemetery in Carlton....
Kathie Jo (Danger) Kemi passed away July 7, 2021, at home, with her daughters by her side. She was born in Crookston on Oct. 15, 1951. Kathie graduated from Esko High School in 1969. She married her high school sweetheart, Bruce, in 1970. They built a beautiful home and life together with their two daughters, Kelly and Kym. Kathie worked at the Cloquet Co-op Credit Union for 48 years, where she made many lifelong friendships. She was a hardworking, strong, dedicated and loving woman. Kathie’s biggest joy in life was having grandchildren. She c...
DaWayn "Dewey" Herbert Johnson, 86, of Carlton passed away peacefully at home with his family by his side July 4, 2021. Born Oct. 9, 1934, to Caroline and Herbert Johnson in Red Wing, he attended a one-room school on an island on the Mississippi River through eighth grade, then attended Red Wing High School, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Wisconsin Superior for a master's degree in fine arts. Dewey taught art and physical education at Cloquet High School for more than 35...
Darwin "Teets" Laverne Bishop, resident of the Duluth area, passed away peacefully Saturday, July 3, 2021, just shy of his 86th birthday. He was born to Sylvester and Charlotte Northrup in Carlton County. He was a member of the Fond du Lac Band of Ojibwe. In his younger years, Darwin and Lynn "Dolly" lived in California with their family. He held several painting jobs, including working for Disneyland, Lockheed Martin, Carroll Shelby and Hiller Helicopters. He was a truant officer at Washington...
Debra Esther (Timonen) Smith, 55, of Proctor died peacefully July 6, 2021, at Inter-Faith Care Center in Carlton after a brief battle with uterine cancer. Deb was born in Moose Lake, the daughter of Raymond and Mary Timonen. Deb grew up in Carlton and graduated from Carlton High School in 1984. She attended Bemidji State University. She was employed for the past 22 years at Kindred at Home as a care team coordinator, and had previously been employed with Vaydich Enterprises and Kmart. Deb was...
After missing last summer due to the pandemic, a new version of an annual Christian music festival will return to Cloquet's Veterans Park on Aug. 14. The Wood City Music Festival will now be known as the Wood City Worship Festival. Lee Harris, who helps lead the Kingdom Builders Ministry that puts on the annual festival, said it hit the reset button during the pandemic, both for the Common Ground Coffee Bar & Deli in Cloquet's West End and the music festival. "We're really getting back to why...
The Gitchi Gummi U19 boys soccer team won its division at the USA Cup Weekend July 9-11 in Blaine. There were five boys from Carlton County on the Gitch team, which defeated the Cloquet U19 boys team in the semifinals 1-0 to get to the championship. The Gitch team then defeated the Elgin (Illinois) All Stars 3-1 in the championship game....
Highlights of programming on the cable access channel, CAT-7: Children’s theater Watch the County Seat children’s theater production of “When Silents Was Golden” on CAT-7. For the next two weeks, the cable access channel is showing videos of weeks 1 and 2 of the children’s theater production at 3 and 6 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, and 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Saturdays. Each show is roughly 30 minutes long. Local programs Enjoy video of this year’s Fourth of July parade in Cloquet and Harry’s Gang episodes, along with recordings o...
In a normal year, the oppressive heat over the Fourth of July weekend may have kept people home or at the lake. But 2021 isn't a normal year. We are free to go about our community business as the Covid-19 pandemic eases. And as the temperature gauge rose into the mid-90s Sunday, people kept flocking to downtown for the 11 a.m. parade. Not everyone made it through the entire lineup, seeking shade here and there or some other cooldown. The scene was a sure sign that things are coming back to...
Sixth District Judge Robert Macaulay will retire Aug. 31, the Pine Knot confirmed on Tuesday. Macaulay has served as a Carlton County judge since he was appointed in February 1995 by Gov. Arne Carlson, winning elections in 1996, 2002, 2008, 2014 and 2020. Prior to his appointment, he served as an assistant Carlton County Attorney from 1984 through 1995. Macaulay, 64, served as mentor judge to the other Carlton County judge, Rebekka Stumme, who was appointed to a vacancy on the bench in Carlton County in May 2019. Minnesota’s Judicial S...
Elk could soon be roaming Carlton County again, as a result of a longtime effort by the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. Last week, the Band submitted a proposal to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to expand the state's elk numbers and range by moving 100-150 elk from existing herds in northwest Minnesota to the area of the Fond du Lac Reservation and Fond du Lac State Forest in Carlton and southern St. Louis counties. Elk are native to Minnesota, with historic numbers...
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College is bringing back its Hot Summer Nights Concert series with two weeks of free concerts later this summer. Local bands Whiskey Trail and Rock-A-Billy Revue will perform 7 to 9 p.m. July 29 and Aug. 5, respectively, in the college’s spectacular amphitheater. Performances are free and open to the public. Concertgoers are encouraged to bring lawn chairs, blankets, or seat cushions to sit on....
The unanimous selection for this year's grand marshals of the July Fourth parade is a group of people who worked hard and risked much over the past 18 months: health care workers. "All health care workers, from those in nursing homes and school settings to clinics and hospitals, public health nurses and more, deserve our thanks for taking care of us during the pandemic," committee members said in a joint statement. "We hope everyone who is watching the parade Sunday will make them feel special...
Because July Fourth falls on a Sunday this year, the official federal holiday will be celebrated Monday, July 5. Look for most public offices, courts, banks and the post office to be closed Monday....
There were no injuries from a crash between a passenger truck and a train in Twin Lakes Township Friday afternoon. According to a press release from the Carlton County Sheriff’s Office, deputies and officers from the Fond du Lac Police Department responded to a report of a train striking a passenger truck at 2025 Highway 210 at approximately 4:31 p.m. Friday, June 25. The crash involved a Chevrolet pickup truck driven by Cloquet’s Chase Luing, age 20, and passenger, Brandon Jenny, 49, of Hermantown and a cargo train owned and operated by BNS...
Northern Lights Academy will offer day treatment to students in the ninth and 10th grades at Carlton High School, a local option to help older students who struggle with mental or emotional issues that don’t require 24-hour care. NLA is a special education cooperative serving 12 districts, including all Carlton County schools. Cloquet superintendent Michael Cary told board members during Monday’s meeting that this will provide an alternative to sending students to Duluth, where there is a wait list. “We have Northern Lights Academy downs...
