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A recently written book by Esko area resident Elaine Osborne confronts the reader with questions about what we believe and why. “If I Felt Alone” is the story of Osborne’s struggle against the personal devastation of environmental illness and the challenges of being heard, understood and believed by a world that does not always listen well. While living in her rural Esko home back in the early 1980s, Osborne was persistently exposed to toxic industrial and residential waste. A large sewag...
The opera is coming to the shores of Lac La Belle Tuesday, Aug. 17. The Lyric Opera of the North, or LOON, as it is lovingly called, will be presenting its Summer Sparkler event in person on the grounds of the Historic Scott House. When the artists take the stage, it will have been 585 days since the company performed in front of a live audience, and artistic director Sarah Lawrence admits, “I’ve had lots of tears. To be singing again, and doing it collaboratively with other people, it just fee...
The Extreme Team youth group had a very successful car wash last weekend. We have to give these kids and their adult leaders a lot of credit for earning their way to the ELCA national youth convention next summer in Minneapolis. They will need to earn about $18,000 for the group to attend and they are only partway to meeting this goal. The family of Mary Purcell had an informal celebration of life gathering for her Aug. 6 at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Wright. There were five beautifully done...
On the evenings of Aug. 20-21, the Dugan and Fisher- Merritt clan will again host the Free Range Film Festival at their heritage barn in Wrenshall. Screening the films ahead of time, I’ve marveled and enjoyed the range of offerings, short to long, reflective to performative. Beginning at 7 p.m. Friday, the first evening’s 15 films — some short, some longer — offer us personality profiles, small and exceptional spaces and impressionistic journeys, as well as adventurers and competitors in action....
It was a chilly day in March when former Esko High School athlete Sami Mattson's cell phone buzzed. The call was from Bob Bartell, her former college softball coach at Concordia University in St. Paul. Bartell was nominating her for induction into the Concordia-St. Paul Athletic Hall of Fame. "I am not sure what my initial facial expression was," said Mattson. "I just know I was a little shocked, with how many great softball players have played at CSP." That shock turned to reality in April...
Don’t look now, but the fall sports season is right around the corner. In fact, local teams will be hitting the fields and courts within the next two weeks, and practices officially begin on Monday and captains practices are happening already. This week the Pine Knot News checked in with a number of local activities directors to find out how this season is shaping up as Covid-19 cases are on the rise again. “As of today everything is a go and we have not heard otherwise from the Minnesota Sta...
Cloquet golf star Sam Baker has committed to Florida Gulf Coast University, a Division I school located in southwest Florida near Fort Myers that competes in the ASUN Conference. The 2021 Cloquet grad said he visited the area in 2019. More recently, he took a virtual tour of the school after it made him an offer he couldn't pass up. But he isn't packing his bags just yet. Baker is taking a gap year, and plans to visit the school in October. "It's really cool from all the pictures I've seen," he...
I'm hearing people are having all the emotions. Are you hearing this as well? Maybe more importantly, are you experiencing this? Several weeks ago, I read about the rise in airline incidents with unruly passengers and an increase of incidents with patrons at restaurants. The article went on to quote a noted psychologist who said the collective anxiety and grief we experienced these last two years has created a perfect storm for negative emotions to come forth, often unfiltered. So this is...
Skunks have been on the move recently - as evidenced by a rise in those killed by vehicles on area roads - likely due to typical food shortages brought on by the dry summer and the fact that young skunks are leaving their mothers and wandering until they locate new territories. Photographer and Pine Knot News subscriber Mike Farmer said he saw this skunk when he was driving down a rural road in the region. "It appeared to have just gotten out of the water and was being harassed by horse flies....
The rain held off long enough Saturday to allow folks to enjoy the Brickyard Days parade, then Mother Nature delivered some much needed moisture to Carlton County's growing agricultural center. The parade lasted about 40 minutes, and featured everything from firetrucks to the Carlton Honor Guard and Raptors cheerleaders, to an accordion-playing skateboarder from Finland named Steve Solkela. Eldon and Karen Grover were grand marshals, riding in a red convertible through the center of town with...
Things were buzzing at the Honey Bee Festival Friday, in a mellow laid back kind of way. Icon Man husband-and-wife duo Mothy and Diane Soden-Groves played for an audience in lawn chairs from the porch of the Oldenburg House, while other activities, events and commerce spread out across the grounds of the 125-year-old historic home. It was all about the bees, with honey-infused food and drink and bee-inspired arts and crafts, along with information galore to support pollinators, and plenty of...
Steven and Barbara Kimber of Carlton died in a tragic automobile accident in Scanlon on Aug. 10, 2021. Steve was born July 2, 1941 in Duluth, the son of Marion and Bernadine (Truhn) Kimber and graduated from Proctor High School. He was a computer programmer and worked hard to support his family through his employment at Carlton County, St. Mary’s Hospital, Amsoil, and the Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway, from which he retired. Steve also had many hobbies and passions including fishing, h...
After a summer of no mandates — only recommendations — and declining numbers of Covid-19 infections as more and more people were vaccinated, rising cases of the virus have officials worried about another wave of infections. The next wave in the Northland won’t be the same as last year, because more than 70 percent of adults are vaccinated here. Nationally this wave of Covid infections — many of them the more transmissible Delta variant — is affecting mostly the unvaccinated. But the unvaccinated are not only those who choose not to get a sho...
