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Carlton County saw its second death from Covid-19 this week — Esko pastor Jeff Walther — along with a sharp rise in the number of positive cases. On Wednesday, the Minnesota Department of Health reported a total of 483 cumulative cases in Carlton County, a jump of 21 from the day before and a single day high for the county. Wednesday’s number represented a two-week rise of 128 cases, up from 355 on Oct. 14. It took two months for the number of cases to rise by that amount from July to Septe...
Gladys "Gladie" Mae (Peterson) DeVriendt, 82, passed away at Inter-Faith Care Center in Carlton on Oct. 22, 2020, with family by her side. She was born Oct. 28, 1937, in Saginaw, and raised on the family farmstead. She was a 1956 graduate of Brookston High School and later Carey-Gaspard School of Business in Duluth. Gladys married Henry DeVriendt Sr. on April 15, 1961, at Queen of Peace in Cloquet. Gladys enjoyed gardening, carpentry, baking, bowling, and especially being an auntie and grandma....
Important news for Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Wright: The church council decided to hold in-person worship services only on the first Sunday of the month, due to recent low attendance, the pandemic, and the cold, darker winter months to come. This should be a savings on the fuel bill and also keep the congregation safer. Pastor Deb will resume 9 a.m. online services starting Nov. 8. We thank all for their participation and generous donations during the past nine months of the shutdown. Cole...
When sports columnist and celebrity Sid Hartman, of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune and WCCO radio, passed away last week, it pushed me to pause and reflect. Sid was 100 years old. He had an article that he had written printed in the newspaper on the day he died. He had more than 20,000 articles published in his 70-plus year newspaper career. He was friends with Bud Grant, for God’s sake. Didn’t matter your sport of choice or gender, most Minnesota athletic enthusiasts had heard of the inf...
Football Moose Lake/Willow River 28 Crosby-Ironton 6 The Rebels improved to 3-0 on the season with an impressive home win over the Rangers. ML/WR outgained the Rangers 296 to 82 yards for the game. Jackson Thompson had another impressive game for the Rebels by scoring twice. Thompson’s first touchdown came on a 7-yard touchdown dash and his second came on an impressive 93-yard punt return for a score. Both Logan Orvedahl and Carter Johnson also scored for the Rebels. ML/WR led 16-0 at halftime and did not allow the Rangers to score until the fo...
Editor’s note:In response to questions about efforts by three area school districts — Barnum, Moose Lake and Willow River — to explore ways to share resources and expenses, committee members share the following update with the Pine Knot News. In early 2020, school board chairs from Barnum, Moose Lake and Willow River began meeting to discuss opportunities to share costs and services between the three districts. Previous conversations had been ongoing between superintendents, and the chairs decided to build on these relationships and expan...
In response to last week’s letter “Say no to political fear mongering,” I — as the flyer author and co-host of the event of which she spoke — feel compelled to respond to what I see as a personal attack on Minnesota House District 11A candidate Jeff Dotseth. I want to set the record straight with facts. The meeting that was held was open to the public. It is a shame that anyone would personally attack someone for a flyer they saw on Facebook. Anyone who truly wanted to know what it was about could have attended the meeting, and then they woul...
Friday, Oct. 16 Football South Ridge 44 Northeast Range 0 Connor Bushbaum had a huge night for the Panthers by rushing for 219 yards on 18 carries and he also added three rushing touchdowns in leading South Ridge to the win in the District 9 Blue Division game. Bushbaum also returned an interception for a score in the third quarter when the Panthers exploded for 24 points. "Connor had another big game," said Panthers coach Brent Johnson. "We have been performing well on both sides of the ball this year with it being only the second game of the...
Sympathy goes to the family of Brian A. Holte, 40, of Anoka, who passed away Oct. 14 at his home. The preliminary autopsy showed that Brian had an enlarged heart. Send condolences to his mother, Judy Olson, at 1827 South Ferry St. Apt 214, Anoka MN 55303. Mary J. Purcell, 92, formerly of Wright, died Oct. 9 in Minnetonka. I sure am going to miss sending Mary this news article every week, as I did for the past five or six years after she gave up her computer access. I also will miss the letters...
Gladys “Gladie” Mae (Peterson) DeVriendt, 82, passed away at Inter-Faith Care Center in Carlton on Oct. 22, 2020 with family by her side. She was born October 28, 1937 in Saginaw, and raised on the family farmstead. She was a 1956 graduate of Brookston High School and later Carey-Gaspard School of Business in Duluth. Gladys married Henry DeVriendt Sr. on April 15, 1961 at Queen of Peace in Cloquet. Gladys enjoyed gardening, carpentry, baking, bowling, and especially being an Auntie and Gra...
Carlton County school superintendents were among 35 different school districts in the Northland to send a heartfelt message to residents Friday. Help us keep kids in school, they said. Wear your masks, wash your hands, observe social distancing guidelines, keep family and social gatherings outdoors, and stay home if you’re sick. Just four weeks into the school year, many schools across Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Pine and St. Louis counties have had to move to more re...
Neighbors on the Bromfield Road in Atkinson Township voiced concerns about a proposed Enbridge staging yard at the Carlton County board of commissioners regular meeting Tuesday. The Atkinson town board’s approval of Enbridge’s use of the road for access and the Carlton County planning commission’s clearance for the yard site had seen little public input until now. Alex Omar has property on road which has been leased by Enbridge for the staging yard and has a proposed access road about 500 feet from County Road 61 off Bromfield. The propo...
The Barnum school district got some good news recently, in a year that saw the small rural school district facing financial woes and then a pandemic. In this case, however, two negatives made a positive. The fund balance for the Barnum school district should be around $450,000, the finance committee reported at the school board’s working meeting Tuesday, Oct. 6. Final figures will be presented to the board by the auditor at its monthly meeting Tuesday, Oct. 20, said superintendent Mike McNulty in a telephone interview this week. “Fifty per...
Barbara Rae Ziehl, 86, passed away peacefully on Oct. 7, 2020, while being cared for by the amazing and loving staff of the Evergreen Senior Living Center and St. Croix Hospice in Cloquet. Barbara was born around July 22, 1934. She was found on the doorsteps of Ripley Memorial Hospital in Minneapolis, and was adopted on Dec. 11, 1934 by Ray and Olive Amlotte of Cloquet. Barbara enjoyed her childhood years by reading, learning to play the oboe, piano, and cello, and spending time with her cousins. Barbara graduated from Cloquet High School in...
Friday, Oct. 9 Football Cloquet-24 North Branch-12 Reese Sheldon scored on a 42-yard touchdown run on his second touch of the football Friday night as the Lumberjacks took the road win in North Branch. Sheldon scored a pair of touchdowns, both in the first half, as the ’Jacks took a 16-12 halftime lead. The lone touchdown in the second half was a 63-yard scoring strike from Alec Turnbull to his brother Will Turnbull. Marshall Hayes added three two-point conversion runs to secure the win. “Our defense played well as a unit. I thought Deeken Fje...
Cardinals runner Noah Foster was the top Carlton County finisher in this week's Section 7A cross country championships, taking third place in the boys races on Tuesday. The Cromwell sophomore was happy with his time of 16 minutes, 59.2 seconds, a personal record for the season, and happy with third place, which was his goal, according to his dad. He was facing stiff competition as the first-place winner, Geno Uhrbom, captured his fourth straight section title in 15 minutes, 58.7 seconds...
The Carlton County board of commissioners last week approved a preliminary 2-percent levy increase for the budget year 2021. This is set to raise $28,790,977 from taxable property in Carlton County. The final levy amount will be approved sometime in December with a Truth in Taxation hearing Dec. 8 at the transportation building. Several areas of the budget could reduce the increase. The final figure for health insurance has not been finalized. The gas tax revenues are expected to be down just 11 percent instead of the projected 15 percent....
Some local schools are reacting to a rise in local Covid-19 cases with a change in learning styles, while others are holding steady, largely because they started the school year doing something other than in-person learning for all grades. The trigger for the change is a "county health number" put out by the Minnesota Department of Health every Thursday morning that shows a two-week average of Covid cases per 10,000 people. Last Thursday, that number came in at 11.24, crossing the benchmark of...
Here's a quick look at what fans can expect from area football teams in a shortened season. Aside from the continued pandemic prtocols around all high school sports, spectators will be limted at games. Cloquet If the Cloquet Lumberjack football team is going to compete for a sectional football title, they'll need to rely on strong line play. Fortunately, this year's version of the 'Jacks has what appears to be an impressive group in the trenches. "We will be very strong up front," said longtime...
Ready, set, stop! That has been the confusing world of volleyball programs throughout the Northland. In mid-March, just as the club season was about to begin, the schools were shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Many of the coaches had already gone through tryouts to determine which players would be on which club teams. Fees had been paid, uniforms handed out and a schedule of tournaments was set. Players were getting used to new coaches, teammates and for some, new positions. And then-...
There are lots of birthdays this month at Villa Vista and Cardinal Court in Cromwell. Roy Miller, formerly of Meadowlands, marked his 100th birthday on Oct. 8. He is living at the Cardinal Court and enjoys the company of many new friends. Roy was 72 years old when he got his first bicycle. It was a 21-speed mountain bike, although he says he never got it out of third gear. Larry (Lawrence Peter William) Switzer, 93, of the Cardinal Court, was born Oct. 4, 1927, in the Kettle River area. He went...
Carlton County superintendents joined a group of superintendents from 35 different school districts in the Northland to ask the public to follow guidelines to help stop the spread of Covid-19, which is spiking across the region and the state. Find the full text of the letter below: Friday, October 8, 2020 To: Constituents in Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Pine and St. Louis Counties: We’re writing to you today to ask for your help. We are four weeks into the year and already schools in our seven-county region have h...
One hundred years ago, Cloquet's library was reborn from the ashes of the 1918 fire, thanks to the generosity of two sisters. One hundred years later, the descendants of those sisters - Cordelia (Shaw) Lynds and Hattie (Shaw) DeLescaille - are again coming to the rescue of the building that bears their family name. Now it's water (and snow) that is damaging the building, which is in desperate need of a new roof and more. No longer a library, the Shaw Memorial Library building has been home to...
Kim Samuelson (incumbent) Background I have been an SWCD board supervisor for much of the past eight years. I also spent many years working with other organizations that emphasize natural resources. This experience and knowledge has helped me understand the importance of conserving and protecting the natural resources of our communities, state, and country. What made you decide to run for the Soil and Water Conservation District? I do all I can to help protect and conserve our beautiful natural...
Donna Kirk Background As a licensed teacher, my experience spans over twenty years of teaching both in person and online in K12 schools as well as in higher ed preparing future K12 teachers. For seven years I have directed a grant funded program to provide STEM opportunities in conjunction with local public schools. What made you decide to run for school board this year? As a newer member of the community, I have experience and a fresh perspective that I desire to use to serve the Moose Lake...
