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Sorted by date Results 26 - 27 of 27
Not too many locals can say they make most of their yearly income from Christmas sales. I make mine harvesting and selling spruce tips from the swamps here in Carlton and other surrounding counties. It's hard work, and it's changed over the years, but I love it. I am - like others who go into the swamps - a "swamp rat." When I was a kid in the 1950s, there were truckloads of black swamp spruce Christmas trees shipped to the South. My uncle, Ray Koivisto, hired men from the Automba area and 10,00...
A 16-year-old boy was shot and killed on the Fond du Lac Reservation early Monday morning. According to a press release from the St. Louis County Sheriff's Office, deputies and officers from the Fond du Lac police department responded to a call at 1:19 a.m. Monday, Dec. 28, reporting that someone was shot. When officers arrived at the rural St. Louis County home on the 3600 block of Giiniw Road, they found a deceased 16-year-old male outside. Initial investigation found the deceased was shot...
