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Harvest Festival is this weekend, Friday through Sunday, Sept. 9-11. We have a full schedule of events happening all three days! Friday’s steak fry is 4-7 p.m.,with cash bingo at 7 p.m. with a quilt raffle. The hot air balloon show and rides are at the school’s baseball field. On Saturday, there’s a patriotic salute at 9:15 a.m., kiddie parade at 9:30 a.m., then kids’ games, bean bag tournament, pie and ice cream social, music in the park, adult bean bag tournament, hot air balloon show and rides, and an evening dance at the Pavilion with mu...
Appointments are now available for Minnesotans to receive an updated bivalent booster at the state-run vaccination site at the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center. Appointments for the Pfizer bivalent booster are available as early as Sunday, Sept. 11, at the DECC. The DECC will be open on Sundays 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Mondays 12-7 p.m. Along with state-run vaccination sites, pharmacies are making appointments for eligible Minnesotans to get their updated booster. Minnesota health care systems, local public health and tribal health...
The Moose Lake Historical Society will hold a Living History Walk at Riverside Cemetery at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10. Actors in period costume will share accounts of local history from prominent past citizens, including Automba’s Matt Reed, Clarence Folz of Moose Lake, Barnum’s Goodell family, the Niemi and Hamlin families of Moose Lake and John Michaelson of West Side. Tickets are $15 cash or check, call 218-485-4234 to reserve. If the weather is bad, head to the Soo Line Event Center....
Approximately 90,000 Minnesotans will continue to save money on MinnesotaCare premiums through the end of 2025, thanks to the federal Inflation Reduction Act signed last month by President Biden. As part of the landmark law, MinnesotaCare premiums will remain at reduced levels for an additional three years, helping workers and families maintain their access to affordable health care. MinnesotaCare covers people who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to purchase other health insurance. Until January 2026, people with incomes...
Former Carlton County attorney Marvin Ketola is included in the most recent edition of Marquis Who’s Who. A 1961 Cloquet High School graduate, Ketola spent more than four decades defending and enforcing the law as an attorney. He began his legal career working with Yetka and Newby Law Firm in Cloquet, where one of his duties was prosecuting misdemeanor offenses for the city of Cloquet. He then started his own firm, the Marvin E. Ketola Law Office, and also worked as a public defender for the Sixth Judicial District for five years. He was e...
The Pine Knot Gallery offers “urbanscape” paintings and photos as its fall exhibit, with a public artist reception set for Sept. 16. Featured are unique perspectives from area artists, including everything from local townscapes to cityscapes in Minnesota and beyond. They include Cromwell artist Carole Hill’s painting of the Kettle River feed mill and Ivy Vainio’s photograph of Carl Gawboy painting an early large-scale Duluth/Superior landscape. Cloquet’s Rhonda “Ron” Peters loves to take photos. “Everything,” she says. “Industrial, comm...
