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After 42 countries, one bear fight, and two attempted coups d'etat, Cloquet resident Roy Hagen has a resume to make any forester jealous. He has spent the majority of his forestry career in Africa and French-speaking countries and has created many memories and stories of his travels. Hagen grew up on a small dairy farm 3 miles outside of Barnum. More than half of the farm was wooded, and Hagen developed a special love for the forest. He found his passion for forestry while planting trees...
The Polar League All Star softball players faced off in Esko June 21. Team Dark Blue and Team Light Blue played to a 4-4 tie. Players named to the teams included Eliza DeCaigny, Elizabeth Hey and Abby Mitchell of Carlton; Kaitlyn Adkins and Lily Hanson of Esko; and Lacie O'Leary, Mendota Castonguay and Katelyn Buell of Barnum. Other players included Darby Autio of Floodwood and Silver Bay's Katie Carpenter, Hannah Thums, Hope Ernest and Danika Thompson. Jana Peterson / Pine Knot...
The Polar League All Star baseball players faced off in Esko June 21. Team Weber took down Team Wallin 9-2. Players named to the teams included Noah Furcht, Tyler Koskela and Cale Haugen of Esko; Caleb Hautajarvi, Barnum; Dan Eggert, Kristian Herman, Kyle Siiter and Henry Ribich of Carlton; Wrenshall, Zeke Rousseau-Sheff, Wrenshall; and Jaxson Bennett, Connor Bushbaum, Jackson O'Bey, Wyatt Olson and Aaron Bennett of South Ridge. Other players included Lucas Stadler, Ryder McMillan, Ero Wallin...
Consolidation between the Carlton and Wrenshall school districts is no longer on pause. It's dead. The Carlton school board on Monday voted to remove consolidation from its list of future options for the foundering district. Left on the list are two expensive options for district residents: turning the South Terrace elementary into a preK-8 school and releasing high schoolers to another district, or creating a new preK-12 school at South Terrace. While the Carlton board plans to conduct a...
The Little Red School House at the Carlton County Fairgrounds in Barnum needs painting. The fair board and retired educators, who are at the building during the fair, are asking for your help. Maybe there’s a sports team or youth group that can step up and volunteer for this job. Just call Lindsay at the fair for more information at 218-389-6737. The fair will furnish the paint and supplies. Yoga will meet 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Monday, June 28 at the Cromwell Pavilion. Gear provided. Questions, c...
Very quietly, the Barnum golf program is putting the town on the map. The little town sitting between Cloquet and Moose Lake has produced boys and girls basketball championships and has been at the top in softball numerous times, but in eight of the 10 years of the program, it has produced caliber players who went on to play in the Minnesota Class A state tournament. This season, Delaney Kocher went to state for the second time. “Delaney was our most senior returning player this year,” said coa...
Sheila Cartwright, 52, of Barnum, passed away with her family by her side June 10, 2021, at Inter-Faith Care Center in Carlton. She was born July 23, 1968 to Roger and Shirley Lund in Moose Lake. Sheila graduated from Cromwell High School in 1986. She was a fantastic wife and mother who was incredibly dedicated to her family and children. Sheila was the domestic engineer around the house, attending to the yard, garden, or current project they were working on. She loved to feed the hummingbirds and enjoyed watching the deer. Sheila was a great c...
Very quietly, the Barnum softball team put together a solid year. That year was rewarded with a run to the Section 7A title game last week, where they fell to Cherry 14-0. “It was a great season and I am so proud of the girls,” said Barnum coach Dusty Collelo. “I really think this will give the girls a lot of incentive to try and win the section next season.” The Bombers had a chance to gain the early lead when they got a double with one out from Kayelea Poirer. Poirer eventually advanced to third, but couldn’t score when Cherry induced J...
Barnum High School's senior graduation ceremony took place June 4 in the school gymnasium. There were 50 graduates. Student speakers were Olivia Bogenholm, Kaitlynn Hooper-Sparks, Riki Mae Duevel, Oliver Swimeley, Lynnsey Schatz, and Jacob Hultgren. Barnum had a unique situation with a four-way tie for valedictorian, each with a 4.0 grade point average. The valedictorians are Bogenholm, Isaac Konu, Alina Lekande and Schatz. Jacob Hultgren was salutatorian....
Barnum High School Fourth quarter A HONOR ROLL Grade 7 Emily Class Alizondra Collelo Lucy Franek Sophia Frank Michael Hoover Kyson Landwehr MaKenna Nordstrom Morghan Nynas Ava Nyquist Iris Polecheck Kaitlyn Rudloff Aleksander Shefchik Hartleigh Stecyk Grade 8 Kaden Carlson Kyler Clarke Casey Corrigan Connor Corrigan Jack Dobosenski Bryce Ferguson Eli Gilbertson Rijah Jones Janaya Jurek Madison Koecher Pierce Korpela Aili Lund Kairi McCoy Lily Newman Brooklyn Peterson Spencer Strohm Megan Swenson Avery Westendorf Ebboney Wills Grade 9 Thomas...
Imagine you have a child, whose life depends on getting a daily dose of medication that is available, but you can’t afford it. Just $1 a day could make a difference between life and a slow decline toward death. That’s a situation Dr. Emmanuel Mareus, aka “Doctor Manno,” sees too often at his medical center and mobile outreach clinics in Haiti. “Diabetes is not a disease that will kill you, like cancer,” he said. “And as a parent, you know that, but can’t afford this.” Mareus spoke in the dini...
Enjoy this pictorial story of a pivotal night for the Class of 2021 at Esko, South Ridge and Barnum high schools on Friday, June 4....
Test your local golf knowledge with these question’s from the Pine Knot’s golf guru Steve Korby. And check out this week’s Extra, which features a guide to courses in Carlton County. 1). The new owners of the Rugged Spruce Golf Club in Mahtowa (purchased in 2020) are: a) Bobby and Julie Tamarack b) Jim and Colleen Myhre c) Fred and Grace Sappi 2). The Cloquet Country Club, established in 1923, had the same president of its board of directors for its first 14 years of operation. Who was he? a) Wi...
When the day began Tuesday in the Section 7A girls softball tournament, only Barnum and Cherry remained as undefeated squads. The same two teams will be back to do battle for the section title on Friday, but with only one undefeated team left: Cherry. Tuesday featured two elimination games: Carlton took on Silver Bay and South Ridge played MIB. Carlton opened the day with an impressive win over Silver Bay, 5-2. The Mariners were the No. 3 seed and the Bulldogs were the No. 4 seed. Carlton smacke...
The Esko boys and girls track teams swept last Thursday's Section 7A South Subsection meet at home, with the girls winning by 54.5 points over second-place Proctor and the boys team beating Proctor by 43.5 points. The subsection meet was the first giant step toward a trip to state. It advanced Esko and other top track and field athletes from the subsection meet to the Section 7A section meet in Cloquet on Thursday, June 10, after this issue of the Pine Knot went to press. "Our girls have high...
High schools across the county celebrated graduation Friday with confetti, speeches and congratulations, and the tossing of brightly colored caps up into the air, to celebrate the end of an unprecedented school year fully gripped by the Covid-19 pandemic. In Cloquet, graduation was held outside on the football field, with graduates and families on or near the field and other audience members in the bleachers. In Carlton, Wrenshall, Cromwell and the Fond du Lac Ojibwe school, the ceremonies were...
It's a big week for high school baseball teams this week as the sectional baseball tournaments kicked off with state tournament berths at stake. With presstime on Wednesday evening, we both preview and update games this week. Section 7AA The Section 7AA tournament featured No. 1 seed Esko opening the postseason Tuesday against No. 16 Rush City and cruising to an easy 7-0 victory. Noah Furcht led the Eskomos with a three-hit night and also scored a pair of runs. No. 2 seed Aitkin opened play...
The sectional softball playoffs kicked off this week and will continue through the weekend with local teams hoping to secure a spot in the Minnesota State High School League softball tournament. Section 7AAA The Section 7AAA tournament opened Wednesday with Cloquet taking on Grand Rapids in Cloquet. The Lumberjacks are the No. 3 seed and the Thunderhawks are the No. 6 seed. Chisago Lakes, the team Cloquet defeated in the 2019 section title game, is the No. 1 seed this season and will host No. 8...
It was a decision no grandparent should have to make. Phyllis Rousseau thought she was going to have to choose between attending the Carlton and Wrenshall graduation ceremonies — originally scheduled at the same time Friday — and how’s a grandmother supposed to choose between two grandsons who are both valedictorians of their classes? That’s right. Grandson Zeke Rousseau-Sheff is valedictorian for the Class of 2021 in Wrenshall, while grandson Spencer Rousseau is valedictorian for the Class o...
The Cloquet school board is whittling away at changing a new normal into just plain normal after an entire school year under the Covid-19 pandemic protocols. On Monday, board members agreed that masking mandates in district buildings would be lifted by the end of June, mirroring a loosening of protective measures sparked by state and national guidance as the threat of Covid-19 has ebbed. Superintendent Michael Cary said current recommendations call for masks to be worn in school buildings only during the school day. He said it would make sense...
Barnum school officials are meeting with officials from the Moose Lake and Willow River districts to discuss schedules and busing changes for the next school year. “We are discussing the parts of the school bus routes that we can share,” Barnum superintendent Mike McNulty said. “Some of our routes are the other school districts. Some students from each of the school districts go to school in one of the other districts, so we are talking about how to keep bus routes from overlapping.” McNulty said the districts have also discussed startin...
Once the Esko offense got going Friday, they made things look easy. The Eskomos rode shutout pitching from Amber Carlblom and a strong offensive output to a 13-0 win over the Bombers. The Eskomos started things off with a bang in the second inning when Lily Hanson drilled her first career home run to make it 1-0. Hanson's homer was followed by a walk from Kaitlyn Adkins and back-to-back singles from Jayden Karppinen and Maya Emanuel to make it 2-0 Esko. In the third inning, Esko added two more...
Despite going 0-3 over their last three games, the Cromwell-Wright softball team has been impressive this year with a 7-7 record as of Monday. It's been years since they've seen that kind of success. Last week the Cards fell to South Ridge, Chisholm and Barnum, but they are continuing to build a better program. "The last part of our schedule is against some very strong teams," said Cards coach Kari Olesiak. "A majority are teams ranking No. 1 or 2 in their sections. They are teams that can...
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College in Cloquet conferred associate degrees and diplomas on the 157 students from its class of 2021 during a virtual commencement ceremony May 13. College president Stephanie Hammitt held out hope that it will be the last ceremony of its type in a while. "We find ourselves once again celebrating apart and virtually, rather than together," she said. "But our enthusiasm and happiness for your accomplishments is not diminished." The 2020 Student of the Year, Hope...
Following last Tuesday's 20 strikeouts, Carlton freshman Abby Mitchell continued her stellar pitching against Barnum two days later, but it wasn't enough to get the Bulldogs the win in a 4-1 game at a field at Chub Lake. Mitchell recorded her first eight outs via strikeouts Thursday, May 13, but the Bombers parlayed two walks and a single in the first inning to gain a 2-0 edge. "Our first eight outs were due to striking out, but Mitchell did walk the first two batters of the game and we were...
