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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...
Wrenshall's August event calendar is filling up fast, so I want to take a moment to make sure everyone has a preview of the upcoming activities in your neighborhood! The month kicks off with Brickyard Days, Aug. 6 and 7. A community picnic will open the festivities 5-7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 6, in the city hall parking lot. On Saturday, Aug. 7, there will be a 5k run, and the traditional celebratory parade starts at 10 a.m. This year the parade will feature the first of what will be an annual...
There was a great turnout for the Extreme Team’s rummage sale last weekend. Folks were so generous with donations and so many items to sell. The next big rummage sale will be held July 16 and 17 at St. John’s in Wright for Wrong Days. There will also be baked items and lunch. Wrong Days is here and is scheduled for July 16-18 at the Wright park in Wright. Vendors and more volunteers are also welcome; call Linda at 218-380-8987. A full schedule of events will be posted and available for you to...
It's been a minute, but Jay Shogren will be playing in Cloquet again this Saturday, more than 40 years after his last performance here. "I'm pretty sure the last time I played was at the Golden Gate on New Year's Eve 1979-1980," said Shogren, a 1976 Cloquet grad. "I'd love to see old friends. I haven't been back in a while." Visiting his hometown between tour dates, Shogren will perform 6:30-8:30 p.m. Saturday, July 17, at the NorthEastern Hotel and Saloon on Cloquet's Dunlap Island. He...
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...
Dorothy Jean Mettner, 95, of Cloquet passed on to eternal life on July 14, 2021 at Barnes Care in Esko. She was born to Andrew and Olga (Siltanen) Raisanen on Oct. 29, 1925 in Cloquet. Dorothy was a loving sister to her brother Warren, and she had two other siblings, Arlene and Jimmy, who both passed away in infancy. She grew up in Esko, where she enjoyed many nights of bowling and roller skating with friends. Dorothy graduated from Lincoln High School in 1943. She moved to Renton, Washington,...
