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I have to write and say that the editorial, “Choices have consequences” in the Feb. 11 Pine Knot News was just that — your opinion. The word discrimination gets used a lot of ways just like, say, liberal and conservative. Making people get shots which are not true vaccines, wear masks and test often. It’s also a form of bullying, control, fear or trying to use peer pressure. Discrimination has more meanings than your one Google online source: distinguish, differentiate, exposing differences and making distinctions. Not everyone believes in the...
I thought your editorial, “Choices have consequences” was spot on. I wonder in today’s divisive climate if we would have been able to overcome deadly diseases of the past, such as polio, malaria, or smallpox, or to improve public health with a smoking ban in public places. Today, for many, it is all about me rather than us. We enjoy many freedoms but some people ignore that with that comes a responsibility to others. Keep up the great journalism. Ken Jorgenson, Carlton...
Duluth Marshall proved to be too much for the Cloquet-Esko-Carlton girls hockey team Saturday as the Hilltoppers rolled to a 5-1 Section 7A semifinal victory to eliminate the Lumberjacks from the playoffs. "At the end of the day, their skill just beat our defensive play," said CEC coach Courtney Olin. "We spent a lot of time practicing our systems and I genuinely feel our girls worked as hard as they could, but I think their skill just surpassed our systems and our defensive style of play." The...
Thursday, Feb. 10 Girls Basketball Cromwell-Wright-78 Barnum-45 South Ridge-97 Wrenshall-26 Pequot Lakes-71 Esko-54 Northwoods-72 Fond du Lac-38 Cloquet-61 Hibbing-49 Boys Basketball Northwoods-82 Fond du Lac-40 Cloquet-84 (OT) Hibbing-78 Boys Hockey CEC-5 Superior-2 Friday, Feb. 11 Boys Basketball South Ridge-70 Wrenshall-61 Fond du Lac-71 Carlton-66 Hermantown-105 (OT) Esko-103 Barnum-89 Cromwell-Wright-57 Moose Lake-Willow River-92 Floodwood-31 Boys Hockey Moose Lake Area-2 Ely-2 Saturday, Feb. 12 Girls Basketball Cass Lake-Bena-72...
Friday, Feb. 18 Boys basketball Esko at Cook County, 6:15 Cromwell-Wright at Carlton, 6:15 ML/WR at Barnum, 7:15 South Ridge vs. Two Harbors, 7:15 Wrenshall vs. Floodwood, 6:15 Girls basketball Esko at Cook County, 4:45 Saturday, Feb. 19 Girls basketball Cloquet at Bemidji, 1:30 Hockey Boys hockey playoffs Round 1 - TBD Monday, Feb. 21 Boys basketball Carlton at Two Harbors, 7:15 Cromwell-Wright vs. Mountain Iron-Buhl, 7:45 Cloquet at ML/WR, 7:15 Girls basketball Esko vs. Grand Rapids, 7:15 Carlton s. Two Harbors, 7:15 Barnum vs. Ogilvie, 7:15...
In the opening game of the boys basketball season, Carlton downed its next-door neighbors from Wrenshall. On Tuesday night, the teams met for a rematch in Carlton in the annual battle for the Brown Jug. This time it was the Wrens who came away with an impressive 85-68 win. "Our guys were focused and ready to play," said Wrens coach Jon Bartczak. "It was a huge win for our guys, especially after losing that first game when we didn't have a lot of practice time on our own floor. We seem to make...
Esko's Koi Perich poured in a school-record 50 points on Tuesday night to complete a season sweep of the Lumberjacks as the Eskomos finished with an impressive 93-68 home win. "Koi scored 45 in the last game against Hermantown and I had been joking with him that if he'd only hit more free throws, he would have scored 50," said Esko head coach Derek Anderson. "I didn't expect him to go out and get 50 the next game we played against a team that plays good defense." Esko sprinted out to an early...
Emily Regas competed at the Minnesota state high school Alpine ski meet Wednesday, as the sole Lumberjacks qualifier. Regas placed 29th out of 88 skiers at the state meet, with runs of 41.96 and 43.43 for a total score of 1:25.39. She placed sixth at the Section 7 meet last week to earn her way to the state meet, while the girls team placed fourth overall at sections. The CEC girls team is young, with no juniors or seniors, so expectations are that the squad will be very competitive for the...
Have you ever been lost? No, really lost. Lost where your heart and pulse start elevating, you’re perspiring, it’s getting dark, personal fear and anxiety are on the rise. You try to be calm. Most of the time when I went partridge (ruffed grouse) hunting in Minnesota’s fall season, I either personally knew the planned hunting terrain or had someone accompanying me who was familiar with the landscape. There are many perfect partridge ecosystems in Carlton and St. Louis counties with thick brush...
Cloquet High School Quarter 2 honor roll A Honor Roll Grade 9 Rizal Agaton-Howes Gage Allen Diamond Allen-Lovejoy Owen Anderson Ahnna Bader William Bauer Johanna Bernu Sarah Blais Joshua Bleskacek Ellise Boyd-Affias Sofia Breuer Madison Correll Cadence Dillon Brody Dushkin Madison Erickson Clare French Nikolas Gentilini Paige Goranson Shealee Gunderson Natalie Halling Noah Hansen Natalie Hautajarvi Riley Hillman Jean Hurd Nicholas Janke Sophia Johnson Erin Keating Addison Kozelouzek Michael Kruse Brijette LaCore Quinten Larsen Preston Latour...
Cromwell -Wright High School First Semester honor roll A Honor Roll Grade 12 Ludovica Abbozzo Jacob Anderson Andres Angulo Rylie Dobosenski NataLee Hakamaki Anja Johnson Scarlett Korpela Alaina Lind Jay Olesiak Andrea Pocernich Augusta Poskus Zevvus Smith Chandell Warner Michael Zoeller Grade 11 Noah Foster Isaac King Sascha Korpela Jacob Measner Steven Ridlon Payton Rosbacka Liam Schoenberg Grade 10 Elliott Anderson Jillian Anderson Avery Birman Tanner Collman Marissa Dahl Caya Forland Aurora Gervais Kyra Granholm Mya Gronner Maxell Hanni...
Graduated Cooper Ketola, of Cloquet, graduated from the University of Tampa on Friday, Dec. 17. Ketola graduated with a bachelor of arts in avertising and public relations. Esko’s Dawsen Cossalter graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in December. Cossalter received his bachelor of science in nursing. Dean’s list The University of Minnesota Duluth announced its dean’s list for fall semester. These local students on the dean’s list achieved a GPA of 3.5 or higher. Ezekiel R. Palmer, political science - Carlton Ben Talaric...
For two weeks in a row, classmates, parents, grandparents, siblings, and community members were treated to marvelous song — alone and with others — and a sparkling One Act Play at the Cromwell-Wright School. On Feb. 2, a variety show, dubbed “February,” filled the auditorium with songs. Music teacher MaryRose Varo, in a change of approach, allowed the students to choose the songs they most wanted to sing. Amusingly, they mostly concerned the joys and travails of young love. The trio of Kieriah...
There is a blood drive at the school in Cromwell today, Feb. 18. It runs from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Call Trudy at 218-740-1542 to register, or the school nurse at 218-644-3716, ext. 4138. The Villa Vista/Cardinal Court will be having a memorial service on Feb. 21 at 1:30 p.m. to honor all residents who passed away in 2021. Fully vaccinated folks are welcome to attend. Our sympathies to the family of Evelyn V. Nordlund, 90, formerly of Kettle River and Moose Lake, who passed away Jan. 21 at Villa...
Across Carlton County, northern Minnesota and western Wisconsin, farmers are firing up the heaters in their greenhouses, ordering seeds and preparing for another season of feeding families across the region. For one unique type of farm, this is also the season when they begin to take orders from households that will receive weekly deliveries of farm fresh produce and other products throughout the summer and fall. It's called community supported agriculture, or just CSA, and it is an approach to...
Due to labor shortages and supply chain issues, Locally Laid Egg Company in Wrenshall has been unable to secure a steady stream of egg cartons. But it's not from a lack of trying. "I've been on the phone, on the road, talking with suppliers, setting up plan Bs, Cs and Ds," said owner Jason Amundsen. "We've been getting by that way for a while, but on Friday (Feb. 11) it all just fell apart." Supply chain issues across the country have come to roost in Wrenshall. "It's frustrating to have the...
