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On Sept. 4, Labor Day, my 160-acre Nemadji Creek tree farm was in the direct path of the Carlton County Road 11 wildfire. Because of the quick and effective response, the damage to my woodlands was minimal and none of my pine and spruce plantations were burned. Over the subsequent days, I was in close contact with county law enforcement, and volunteer and professional firefighters from the local to the state level. At times there were up to 67 pairs of boots on the ground or in the air. I want to express my sincere thanks to those on the scene...
A poem by Patrick Stevens September Here lies the harvest fast piled rough with all we can stuff our chipmunk cheeks puffed and bulging or squirrels or ants or bees with their combs. I relish the ripeness of September just after the rot sets in; when last apples drop, deer come at night to feast on our fallen bounty; leaf edges brown here, then there, the maples, sweet and red, drip to the ground drowned in morning dew. In evening I see a thousand varied birds fowl big, fowl small flocking...
After nearly six decades of caring for the community's elderly and infirm, Sunnyside Health Care Center in Cloquet is closing. Sunnyside and Community Memorial Hospital officials said the process will begin immediately and will be complete by the end of the year. Thirty-four residents will have to find new places to live, and close to 30 staff will lose their jobs. It was a difficult decision, said Community Memorial Hospital CEO Rick Breuer. But difficulty staffing the facility - which always...
When Jim Charboneau decided to chronicle the Barnum football season for the Moose Lake Star-Gazette, the proud grandfather to the team's quarterback figured somebody needed to pick up the bullhorn, so it might as well be him. "Barnum usually hasn't gotten much ink locally," Jim said. "I decided I would write articles for the football team." The grandson, Hayden Charboneau, plays quarterback and is one of 10 seniors on the team. "There's all kinds of things to brag about with him," Jim said....
The former Shopko store in Moose Lake is now St. Luke’s Plaza, home to Northern Lakes Surgery Center, Lake Area Therapy Services and St. Luke’s Diagnostic Imaging. These health-focused businesses are serving patients in the Moose Lake area with high-quality, compassionate care. “Since Northern Lakes opened, we’ve loved being able to provide everything from colonoscopies to cataract surgeries and biopsies in our community,” said Eric Nielsen, Gateway Clinic administrator and Northern Lakes Surgery Center board vice president. “Our partnership...
Thursday, Sept. 28 Girls Soccer Cloquet/Carlton 2 Duluth Marshall 2 Esko 2 Hermantown 0 Volleyball Moose Lake/WR 3 Cook County 0 Cloquet 3 Duluth Denfeld 0 South Ridge 3 Barnum 0 Esko 3 Hibbing 0 Friday, Sept. 29 Football Cloquet 16 Proctor 10 (OT) Esko 32 Two Harbors 3 Nevis 48 Cromwell/Wright 13 Mille Lacs 30 South Ridge 0 Barnum 53 East Central 6 Moose Lake/WR 29 Hinckley-Finlayson 8 Carlton/Wr...
Friday, Oct. 6 Football Barnum at Onamia, 7 Carlton/Wrenshall at Hill City, 7 Denfeld at Cloquet in Proctor, 7 Laporte at Cromwell- Wright Area, 7 Esko at Hibbing, 7 Moose Lake/Willow River at International Falls, 7 Saturday, Oct. 7 Volleyball Esko tournament Barnum at Mesabi East tournament, 9:30 a.m. Cromwell-Wright at Moose Lake/Willow River Tournament, 9 a.m. Monday, Oct. 9 Volleyball Crosby-Ironton at Carlton/Wrenshall, 7 p.m. Girls Soccer Esko at sectional Tuesday, Oct. 10 Volleyball Proctor at Esko, 7. Carlton/Wrenshall at South Ridge,...
On Oct. 12, 1918 — 105 years ago — tragedy struck parts of Minnesota that included the communities of Kettle River, Moose Lake and Cloquet, areas of Duluth, and many smaller towns in the area. This was a devastating event for many families and businesses. I did not realize how close my family history was to the fire in Kettle River. My mother’s mother, Lucina Winquist, was living in Kettle River with her husband, Charles Winquist, and four children. They managed to escape to Moose Lake and survi...
Free Acrylic Painting Take & Create Art kits are available at the Cloquet, Carlton and Moose Lake public libraries in October, courtesy of the Arrowhead Library System. This art experience was designed by 321 Art Studio in Chisholm and explores acrylic painting for beginners and more advanced participants. They will include supplies to create two unique pictures – one round stretched canvas, three 4x4-inch canvas panels to create a triptych, and an acrylic paint set with brush....
The U.S. is on the brink of a government shutdown due to a handful of right wing extremists who are holding the country hostage. These extremists, all Republicans and ironically known as the Freedom Caucus, claim they will not vote to approve the 2024 federal budget due to their opposition to the growing federal debt. Really? According to the Associated Press, a shutdown would furlough millions of federal employees, leave active military without pay, disrupt air travel and cut off vital safety net services. It would definitely affect some of...
Pine Hill Golf Course on Highway 61 in Carlton will have a new owner soon, and there are some big changes in store for the popular nine-hole golf course. Jim and Cassie Barry have owned and operated the golf course since 2005, and listed the golf course for sale three years ago. Tom Kraemer Inc. of Moose Lake contacted them a day after it went on the market. TKI, formerly StorMor, is presently located just off Minnesota Highway 27 and Old Highway 61. The company offers large, portable storage...
Sometime in winter 2024, the city of Barnum will be less of a food and retail desert than it is. Dollar General is moving onto Main Street, with construction already begun on a store which figures to include staples such as milk. While not a grocery store, Dollar General will fill a longtime void in a community that sees its residents travel to Moose Lake, Cloquet and beyond for merchandise such as cleaning supplies, health and beauty products, stationery, seasonal decorations, and some snacks...
Created by Pine City's LeRoy Samuelson in 2010, the four-day, four-person Senior Scramble recently completed play at five golf courses in the region. While Samuelson passed away a few years ago, his sons, Loren and Brad, have continued organizing the September event. This year, 22 teams, with many from Carlton County, cleared their golf schedules to play. Courses played included The Retreat (Floodwood), Pine City, Moose Lake, Rugged Spruce (Mahtowa), and Pine Hill (Carlton) golf clubs....
Justin Adrian Daniel Eller, 47, of Esko, a very proud U.S. Navy veteran, died unexpectedly in a tragic accident on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. He was born on May 31, 1976, in Moose Lake to Dan Eller and Susan Cartie. Justin grew up in Mahtowa and graduated in 1994 from Barnum High School with High Honors and proudly wore his cords during graduation. He played a variety of sports as a Bomber. On July 9, 1993, Justin joined the U.S. Navy on a delayed entry, which allowed him to finish high school...
A crash between a motorcycle and car in Mahtowa Wednesday night killed the motorcycle driver, identified as 47-year-old Justin Eller of Esko. According to a news release from the Carlton County Sheriff’s Office, Nicholas Berglund, 51, of Bruno, Minnesota was driving a passenger car and was turning left (south) onto County Road 61 from County Road 4. When his car entered the intersection, Eller and his motorcycle, which were traveling north on County Road 61, struck the passenger car. Eller was fatally injured. He was not wearing a helmet. B...
Friday, Sept. 22 Football Barnum at Braham, 7 p.m. Cromwell-Wright/Floodwood at Carlton/Wrenshall, 7 p.m. Rock Ridge vs. Cloquet in Proctor, 7 p.m. Pequot Lakes at Esko, 7 p.m. Moose Lake/Willow River at Mesabi East, 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 23 Volleyball Fond du Lac Ojibwe at Northland Tournament Cloquet at Duluth East Invitational, 8 a.m. Cromwell-Wright/Floodwood, South Ridge at Rock Ridge tournament, 9 a.m. Girls Swimming Cloquet-Esko-Carlton at Denfeld Invite, 11 a.m. Girls Tennis Cloquet-Esko-Carlton at St. Francis Girls Soccer Chisago...
Justin Adrian Daniel Eller, 47, Esko, a very proud Navy Veteran, died unexpectedly in a tragic accident on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. He was born on May 31, 1976 in Moose Lake to Dan Eller and Susan Cartie. Justin grew up in Mahtowa and graduated in 1994 from Barnum High School with High Honors and proudly wore his cords during graduation. He played a variety of sports as a Bomber. On July 9, 1993, Justin joined the Navy on a delayed entry which allowed him to finish high school and also recruit...
With the help of wetter and colder weather, the County Road 11 fire in Barnum Township was declared 100-percent contained on Tuesday, eight days after smoke was observed in the area on Labor Day. On Wednesday, command of the fire was handed off to local firefighters to monitor hot spots, mostly in areas of shallow peat among the 82 acres of mostly swampland that burned. The fire spread quickly after a hot and windy Labor Day weekend but was mostly contained a day after the fire was reported. It...
The Cloquet volleyball team raced to a fast start this season, a trend that continued with a sweep of Moose Lake/Willow River on Tuesday at Moose Lake Area School. Cloquet won the first set 25-15, and the second set 25-16. Each of those sets were tight battles in the early going, but the Lumberjacks took control and distanced themselves from ML/WR in both games, thanks to timely kills from Ava Carlson, who finished with 22 kills on the night. The Rebels were unwilling to quit in an extended...
Friday, Sept. 15 Football Barnum at Deer River, 7 p.m. Carlton/Wrenshall at Verndale, 7 p.m. Cloquet at Duluth East, 6 p.m. Cromwell-Wright/Floodwood at Sebeka, 7 p.m. Esko at Mora, 7 p.m. Moose Lake/Willow River at Crosby-Ironton, 7 p.m. South Ridg4e at Ely, 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 16 Boys Soccer Cloquet-Esko-Carlton vs. Grand Rapids at Superior, 2 p.m. Girls Soccer Cloquet-Carlton at North Branch, 1 p.m. Volleyball Barnum at Crosby-Ironton, 9 a.m. Monday, Sept. 18 Girls Tennis Cloquet-Esko-Carlton at Grand Rapids/Greenway, 4 p.m. Girls Soccer...
The ghosts of the "Boys of Summer" still float around 14th Street, the skateboard rink, and Athletic Park in Cloquet. Town Baseball celebrated 100 years of championships in the state of Minnesota over the recent Labor Day weekend. Cloquet has records of city organized baseball definitely originating before that date, with documented team photos dating back to the 1890s and early 1900s. But they are no more. The Cloquet Foresters disbanded before 1980. They were the last Cloquet post-high-school...
A crash between a motorcycle and car in Mahtowa Wednesday night killed the motorcycle driver, identified as 47-year-old Justin Eller of Esko. According to a news release from the Carlton County Sheriff's Office, Nicholas Berglund, 51, of Bruno, Minnesota was driving a passenger car and was turning left (south) onto County Road 61 from County Road 4. When his car entered the intersection, Eller and his motorcycle, which were traveling north on County Road 61, struck the passenger car. Eller was fatally injured; he was not wearing a helmet....
You could say that parts of Carlton County lucked out this past Labor Day weekend. Things could have been much worse. Days after a swath across northern Minnesota, including all of the county, was designated in the "extreme drought" category, we were hit with record high temperatures over the holiday weekend. Drought conditions lingering into the fall are not common in the region. Infamously, the region also received what would have been declared an "extreme" level of dryness in the fall of...
Before last session even began, we knew our nursing homes were overwhelmed with a massive crisis: 15 percent of nursing homes statewide had exhausted their financial reserves, and 10 percent were considering closure. Outside of the Twin Cities area, those numbers were much worse: 17 percent of the homes had no financial reserve and 12 percent were considering closure. With about 350 nursing homes in the state, that put 60 nursing homes without reserves, and 41 considering closure. This crisis was created from the combination of raging...
The Lahaina destruction on the Hawaiian island of Maui definitely is a catastrophe. The loss of lives, livelihoods, homes, and irreplaceable ancient relics from early inhabitants of the islands is a tragedy, no question about it. Yet, our area of northern Minnesota has its own fire tragedy that impacts our lives even after 105 years have passed. Up to this day, it is the largest natural disaster in Minnesota history, with some 1,500 square miles destroyed by fire in a region encompassing 8,400...
