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Johnny Cash startled me awake. My eyes tried to adjust to the ray of light pouring onto the ceiling. Sometime during the night, my phone had fallen halfway under the bed, adding to my confusion. "I bet there's rich folks eatin' in a fancy dining car ...." My mind searched for order and meaning. "They're probably drinkin' coffee and smokin' big cigars ...." My hands fumbled to silence Mr. Cash. 3:55 in the morning. Late April. "But I know I had it comin' I know I can't be free." In an instant,...
Softball season is here and the Pine Knot will be covering your local high school fast-pitch teams this spring. Here is a preview to the small-school softball teams in our area. CARLTON: Carlton coach Melissa Clark is in only her third season, but the Bulldogs head coach has led her team to the state tournament in her first two seasons at the helm and it certainly looks like she has the inside track on a third straight trip to Mankato. The Bulldogs lost only two players from a team that...
As winter turns into spring and local high schools attempt to make the transition to spring sports, several local baseball teams are looking for the success they had from a season ago. Class A South Ridge: The South Ridge Panthers are coming off their best season in school history as they finished fourth in the Class A state baseball tournament, losing to Parkers Prairie in the third place game in Chaska. The Panthers lost key senior Nick Carlson to graduation, but return seven starters from...
A historical sports co-operative between schools in Carlton and Wrenshall could be approved as early as Monday by district school boards. Football coaches and activities directors from both schools made presentations to the public in Carlton and the Wrenshall board Wednesday night on the prospect of the two schools teaming up in football. The idea comes on the heels of a partnership in cross- country last fall that was deemed successful. “I’m 100-percent for this,” said Wrenshall football and activities director Jeremy Zywicki as he addre...
Jeffery Ronald Thorson, 62, of Barnum, Minn. died Friday April 5, 2019, at the VA Hospital in Minneapolis, from complications. A Celebration of Life will be planned at a later date. Arrangements by Nelson Funeral Care....
The Northland overcame a record-setting snowfall in February by having one of the driest months of March in history. That, in turn, allowed area running tracks to melt and local high school teams to get outside and do their thing. The teams are ready to hit the road running this weekend and next week, and the Pine Knot News has put together a small-school preview to give our readers a chance to know their local teams. CARLTON The Bulldogs track program has 21 girls and 22 boys out for their...
Thanks to a more competitive bidding process, Carlton County stands to save a lot of money on the cost of hauling garbage from the county transfer station to the landfill. Zoning and Environmental Services administrator Heather Cunningham told Carlton County commissioners during their March 12 meeting that hauling costs to the Superior, Wis. landfill have been bid openly for several years. The transfer station produces about 16,000 tons annually, and those costs went up in 2017 when SKB Environmental was the only bidder. However, last year,...
Anna Mae "Dot" Loisel, 92, of Cloquet, Minn. passed away Wednesday, March 20, 2019 in Inter-Faith Care Center. She was born to Nels and May (Atkinson) Nelson on the family homestead at Atkinson, Minn. (a township named for her grandparents, John and Mary Atkinson) on Oct. 22, 1926. Anna graduated from Barnum High School as the valedictorian, and was homecoming queen. She was united in marriage to Harry Ernest Loisel Feb. 9, 1946 at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Cloquet. Anna...
At approximately 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 13, an employee of Northwoods Credit Union called 911 to report smoke coming from the Moose Lake Motel on Arrowhead Lane, according to the Moose Lake Star Gazette newspaper. Billowing smoke and flames could later be seen coming out of the roof of the motel, which had 14 units and a living quarters for the caretaker. Fire departments responded to the scene from Moose Lake, Mahtowa, Barnum, Sturgeon Lake, Willow River, Kettle River and Carlton. The...
With training conducted Friday at Cloquet Middle School, staff at all of the Cloquet schools have now completed a new-to-them “active shooter” training, which focuses on giving staff and students tools to react to situations in which a person is shooting inside the school. Rather than teach them to lock the door, hide under desks and do nothing, ALICE (Alert, Lockdown, Inform 911, Counter and Evacuate) trains teachers, staff and students to respond actively. They learn to evacuate if they can, barricade if they can’t, and they practice techn...
This has been one of our old-style winters with lots of snow and at times high winds. Locals complain of the inconvenience of it all: slippery roads, poor snowplow service, and high heating bills from the subzero temperatures. Yet we can go back to other winters such as the winter of 1940-41 and the famous Armistice Day storm. In this photo from Lila Kaski Schwoch of Barnum, the Carlton County snow removal truck of the period, a powerful but slow Oshkosh truck with cables running the front plow...
Esko, Moose Lake-Willow River and Barnum were set to play in the Section 7AA girls basketball tournament Thursday to secure a quarterfinal round game at UMD's Romano Gym on Saturday. Section 7AA features 16 teams divided into two subsections. Subsection 1 includes Esko, ML-WR, Barnum, Pequot Lakes, Pillager, Crosby-Ironton, Aitkin and Duluth Denfeld. Subsection 2 includes Eveleth-Gilbert, Virginia, Greenway, Proctor, International Falls, Duluth Marshall, Two Harbors and Mesabi East. The top...
BOYS BASKETBALL Carlton Bulldogs Friday, Feb. 15 7:15 pm vs. Cromwell-Wright Monday, Feb. 18 7:15 pm vs. Hill City Friday, Feb. 22 7:15 pm at Fond du Lac Ojibwe Ogichida Cloquet Lumberjacks Tuesday, Feb. 19 7:15 pm at Duluth Marshall Friday, Feb. 22 7:15 pm vs. Bemidji Cromwell-Wright Cardinals Friday, Feb. 15 7:15 pm at Carlton Tuesday, Feb. 19 7:15 pm at Barnum Friday, Feb. 22 7:30 pm vs. Nevis Esko Eskomos Tuesday, Feb. 19 7:15 pm at South Ridge Friday, Feb. 22 7:15 pm vs. St. Croix Lutheran Fond du Lac Ojibwe Ogichidaag Friday, Feb. 15...
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College announced that 206 students attending the college during Fall Semester 2018 earned academic honors and have been placed on the Dean’s List for the semester grading period. Requirements for earning Dean’s List honors at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College include maintaining a GPA of 3.0 or higher while completing 12 or more course credits during the semester. Students may take daytime classes, evening classes, weekend classes, online classes, or a combination of the above classes. A total of 1,9...
The café in Wright had survived several rounds of ownership, most recently as Minetties Diner. It remained for years the only restaurant in Wright, a gathering place for weekly coffee groups, thousands of games of cribbage, snowmobilers, summer visitors, and folks who'd prefer to not cook dinner. Last week, it burned to the ground. Delivering our latest issue of Pine Knot News to Minetties on Thursday, Jan. 31, driver Joe Waldorf was astonished and sent a phone photo to the editor. It happened...
After three days off school due to cold weather, two of the top high school boys basketball programs in the area hit the hardwood in Esko as the Eskomos hosted the Barnum Bombers. The Eskomos got big nights from Payton Wefel and Trevor Spindler and rode their 3-point shooting to a 71-51 home victory. Spindler finished with a game high 29 points while Wefel was nearly as hot with 26 points for the Eskomos. The pair knocked down 13 three-pointers in the game. "They both played incredibly and got...
There's no doubt that voters learned a lesson from the hundreds of mail-in ballots that didn't get to the Carlton County Courthouse in time to be counted in the primary election on Jan. 22. Carlton County Auditor Paul Gassert said there was much greater "turnout" for Tuesday's election from citizens living in mail-in voting precincts versus the primary election on Jan. 22. "By mail, but mostly in person," he said. One woman even paid extra to have her mail-in ballot delivered by priority mail, a...
The Esko Eskomos and the Cromwell-Wright Cardinals battled Friday night to see who might end up with the Polar League title. The Eskomos came out on top 54-46. The matchup featured two of the best teams in the league and the Cardinals were searching for their first victory over Esko in several years. The Eskomos started fast while Cromwell-Wright struggled in the early going. The Eskomos jumped out to an early lead and never looked back. "We thought we had a great chance of beating them this...
BOYS BASKETBALL Carlton Bulldogs Friday, Feb. 1 7:15 pm vs. McGregor Tuesday, Feb. 5 7:15 pm at Lakeview Christian Academy Friday, Feb. 8 6:00 pm vs. Floodwood Cloquet Lumberjacks Friday, Feb. 1 7:15 pm vs. Proctor Tuesday, Feb. 5 7:15 pm vs. Duluth Denfeld Thursday, Feb. 7 7:15 pm at Hibbing Cromwell-Wright Cardinals Friday, Feb. 1 7:15 pm at Floodwood Tuesday, Feb. 5 7:15 pm vs. Cherry Friday, Feb. 8 6:15 pm vs. Silver Bay Esko Eskomos Friday, Feb. 1 7:15 pm vs. Barnum Tuesday, Feb. 5 7:15 pm vs. Pequot Lakes Friday, Feb. 8 4:30 pm at...
Stu Lourey is the Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate in the special election for Minnesota State Senate District 11. The Pine County native defeated his DFL opponent, Carlton County's Michelle Lee, in Tuesday's primary election by 1,933 votes (53,24 percent) to Lee's 1,698 votes (46.76 percent). Turnout in Tuesday's primary was low, at 11.19 percent in Carlton County and below 10 percent across all of District 11, which includes both Carlton and Pine Counties, along with several precincts in...
BOYS BASKETBALL Carlton Bulldogs Friday, Jan. 25 7:15 pm vs. Moose Lake-Willow River Tuesday, Jan. 29 7:15 pm vs. Duluth Marshall Friday, Feb. 1 7:15 pm vs. McGregor Cloquet Lumberjacks Friday, Jan. 25 7:15 pm at Superior Monday, Jan. 28 7:15 pm vs. Esko Friday, Feb. 1 7:15 pm vs. Proctor Cromwell-Wright Cardinals Friday, Jan. 25 7:15 pm at Esko Tuesday, Jan. 29 7:15 pm at Moose Lake/Willow River Friday, Feb. 1 7:15 pm at Floodwood Esko Eskomos Friday, Jan. 25 7:15 pm vs. Cromwell-Wright Monday, Jan. 28 7:15 pm at Cloquet Friday, Feb. 1 7:15...
STORY UPDATED FROM PRINT VERSION: The primary election for the Minnesota District 11 Senate seat is Tuesday, and many in Carlton County didn't get their mail-in ballots until Friday or Saturday. That's a problem, because there's no mail service Monday because of the MLK holiday. Carlton County Auditor Paul Gassert recommends people who didn't already mail their ballots bring them directly to the auditor's office at the Carlton County Courthouse today by 5 p.m. Monday (yes, they're open for...
Sometimes you just have to do it yourself. Longtime Cloquet Senior High School theater director Kevin Hamre was so frustrated with the selection of one-act plays - which he called "ridiculous junk ... with no meaning, purpose or expression" - that he decided to take matters into his own hands, and simply wrote his own, naming it "The Beat Goes On." According to Hamre, three different families with different backgrounds and professions come together in this story - and they have one thing in...
Rhonda Reneé Jacobson, 55, of Wrenshall, Minn. died Jan. 10, 2019 in Solvay Hospice house, Duluth, Minn. Visitation: 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 17, and continuing at 9 a.m. until the 10 a.m. memorial service Friday, Jan. 18, all at the Cremation Society of Minnesota Chapel, Duluth. _________________________ Donald Joe Criley, 82, Sturgeon Lake, Minn. died Monday, Jan. 14, 2019. Visitation: 9 a.m. until the 11 a.m. funeral service Friday, Jan. 18, at the Barnum Community Church. Military honors accorded, Pastors Kendall Carlson and Jerry Gill...
While the Republican Party settled on one candidate for the Minnesota Senate District 11 race within a week of Gov. Dayton announcing the special election, the DFL party had to abide by its constitution and give 10 days notice before holding its endorsement convention. There are currently two candidates running for the DFL ticket, Michelle Lee of Carlton County and Stu Lourey of Pine County. The DFL endorsement convention is set for 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 19 at Barnum High School. There will be a candidate meet-and-greet 9-10 a.m. Because the...
