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New Wine is back and better than ever, with 7 p.m. performances of "Bright Star" running nightly (beginning Wednesday) through Sunday, May 15 at Zion Lutheran Church. Featuring a toe-tapping gospel/bluegrass score by actor/comedian/banjo player Steve Martin and singer/songwriter Edie Brickell of the New Bohemians, "Bright Star" is set in North Carolina and is inspired by a true story. Spanning decades, it tells the heartbreaking yet uplifting saga of literary editor Alice Murphy. When Alice... Full story
Carlton County commissioners got a taste of some of the challenges they will face in crafting a budget for 2023 at Tuesday’s board meeting. “Fuel costs are at $4 and rising,” said county coordinator Dennis Genereau. “The rise of gas and fuel prices impacts everything we do in the programs we run.” Genereau explained that the costs to run the new justice center are still in the planning stage. Another groundskeeper and at least a couple of custodians are being considered. Additional staff for the Sheriff’s Office and the court system are...
There’s a lot to be questioned when it comes to the human capacity for kindness. There is much to consider in world events and politics, especially if you follow too closely on social media. It makes one wonder what kindness in your own sphere can possibly matter. We resort to the butterfly effect, and, really, to the purpose of the Pine Knot. We are extremely focused on what happens right here, right now. That shrinks things a bit, and opens the possibility that one kind gesture could have an impact. It could spread, and make our own b...
Duluth musician Gaelynn Lea shares both her music and her musical journey with Churchill Elementary School fourth-grade students Tuesday. Lea visited Churchill on Tuesday and Washington Elementary in Cloquet on Thursday as part of YourClassical MPR's Class Notes program. Class Notes artists are professional musicians who visit elementary and middle schools not only to perform but to also discuss music, composers and instruments. Read all about it in next week's Pine Knot News...
Our sympathies to the family of Marion Larsen, 80, who passed away May 6, 2022. Her memorial service will be on May 31. Her full obituary can be read in next week’s Pine Knot News or on the Atkins Northland website. There is a “No Mow May” movement for not cutting local lawns in May to protect the dandelions so the bees in our area can survive and thrive. Participate in yoga at the Cromwell Pavilion every Monday from 11 a.m. to noon. $3 a person covers city rental. Gear provided. The junio...
The National Weather Service in Duluth has issued a flood warning for the St. Louis River at Scanon until 1 p.m. Wednesday. Moderate flooding is forecast. At 10.5 feet, minor flooding occurs near Scanlon. At 1:30 PM CDT Friday the stage was 10.1 feet. According to the NWS, the river is expected to rise above flood stage late Friday evening to a crest of 11.4 feet Sunday morning. It will then fall below flood stage early Wednesday morning. This crest compares to a previous crest of 11.2 feet on... Full story
Covid-19 case counts are trending up in the state and region after a month of respite. Hospitalizations are also on the rise, but the cases seen are less severe, said Rick Breuer, CEO of Cloquet’s Community Memorial Hospital. More people are being treated at clinics or at home, Breuer said. It’s a milder wave of Covid that people have been looking for. “It can be heresy to talk about Covid like the flu,” Breuer said. “It’s not to minimize it, but that’s what we have hoped for.” The problem with any Covid case these days, he said, is that i... Full story
The Cloquet Area Chamber of Commerce feted its own, at the group's annual banquet Thursday at the Black Bear Casino Resort. A crowd of at least 180 members gathered for a social hour, dinner, entertainment and awards to the organization's most involved members. The Chamber large business of the year award was presented to Frandsen Bank & Trust in Cloquet, and the Chamber small business of the year award went to Forum Communications' Pine Journal. There was no Chamber volunteer of the year...
Are you kidding me? The Cloquet Pine Journal is the Cloquet area’s small business of the year? It is based and published in Duluth by Forum Communications, a Fargo, North Dakota company. The Cloquet Chamber of Commerce clearly doesn’t understand where the city boundaries lie. Besides, we have an excellent newspaper in our town called the Pine Knot News which is actually a locally owned and operated business. Chamber board members, get your heads out of the sand. Chris Jenkins, Cloquet... Full story
Philip Raymond "Skip" Sarazin, 79, died on April 29, 2022, in his sleep at home in Olive Branch, Mississippi. Skip was born Dec. 27, 1942, to Raymond Philip "Sarge" and Florence Korby Sarazin. Sarge was away at Marine boot camp, and when he requested leave for his first son's birth, he was told, "You may have had to be there to set the keel, but you don't need to be there to launch the ship." Skip and his mom spent his early years at the Korby farm in rural Esko, where he developed his special... Full story
John C. Christen, 75, of Cloquet passed away peacefully Sunday, May 1, 2022, in Morgan Park. He was born Oct. 15, 1946, in Duluth, the son of John W. and Theresa (Lovich) Christen. John graduated from Morgan Park High School in 1965 and served two tours with the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War. He later started a variety of businesses, including the Esko Garbage Service and Touch of Class (now called the River Inn), and in 1984 he started Creative Colors and Christen Building. John was... Full story
Cromwell-Wright had to wait 12 years between varsity baseball wins, but that's in the past, after the Cardinals defeated Carlton 3-1 on the road Tuesday, April 26, at Chub Lake. Varsity baseball returned to Cromwell this year for the first time since 2010, after the program was resurrected a few years ago with junior high ball. From 2011 through 2018, Cromwell-Wright athletes traveled to McGregor to play baseball. The young Cardinals got on the board first in the opening half-inning when... Full story
The latest team to win a state championship at Cloquet High School is the economics team. Cloquet made it to the championship quiz bowl - held virtually - and beat Cambridge Wednesday afternoon. The happy state champs here are Sam Buytaert, Amelia Allen, Cale Prosen and Jake Mertz. Find out more about the competition in next week's Pine Knot News....
Last year Pine Knot News staff celebrated being recognized as the most outstanding weekly newspaper in the Land of 10,000 Lakes by giving away 10,000 tree seedlings. In January, the Minnesota Newspaper Association again presented its top prize to the Pine Knot. This year, newspaper staff decided to repeat last year's 10,000 tree giveaway this Memorial Day weekend with Trees 2.0. This year's "tree giveaway 2.0" is launching on May 27, a day when local businesses and organizations will be giving... Full story
City administrator Tim Peterson announced Cloquet has earned Tree City status once again, recognition that the city makes the planting and care of trees a priority. It had been more than a decade since Cloquet was officially declared a Tree City. City staff worked with the Arbor Day Foundation to meet requirements the past year. “It quite honestly takes a whole lot of work to get it set up initially, and Caleb and his staff took that on,” he said, referring to public works director Caleb Pet...
The censure hearings against Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa chairman Kevin Dupuis ended Monday with a meeting of the Reservation Business Committee. In a meeting open to band members in person and online, the RBC voted 3-2 that the accused chairman answered the questions to the council’s satisfaction. There will be no further proceedings, stated the band’s chief judge, Henry Buffalo, who was the presiding official for the hearing. Fond du Lac secretary/treasurer Ferdinand Martineau originally made the motion to censure Dupuis at...
Thumbs up Bravo to Nathan Barta. He’s the Esko High School senior who took the time to come up with a plan for more equal county commissioner districts and then presented it to commissioners earlier this month. Wow. How many teenagers even bother to grasp the fact that county commissioners have districts, let alone come up with a plan to equalize them? We heard Barta also spoke up at a redistricting hearing in Duluth regarding state legislative districts. Well done. Thumbs up Kudos to Cloquet grad Luke Heine for bringing a free hackathon to t... Full story
I probably did not adequately express to Jana the trauma I felt when we discovered a boxelder bug in the front window of the Pine Knot News office this week. I had just spent most of the morning talking to people about ash borers, and their official arrival in Cloquet. The emerald ash borer is a real problem. Its infestation kills ash trees, threatening a large chunk of the hardwood tree canopy across southern and eastern Minnesota as of this week. Boxelder bugs? Well, they say they are harmless. They munch on boxelder tree leaves all summer... Full story
Mother Nature has not been kind to local high school baseball teams this spring. Cold, snowy and rainy weather has caused more than normal cancellations and postponements in the northern half of the state. The Pine Knot News this week caught up with coaches for a preview of local teams this season. Cloquet Cloquet head coach Tyler Olin is looking for improvement on a team that struggled to a below .500 record last season. "We were 7-15 last year," Olin said. "We had six seniors who graduated... Full story
A common phrase in sports is “Good play creates good bounces”. The Minnesota Wilderness took advantage of that philosophy Friday night with its first two goals off lucky bounces, and carried that momentum for a 4-1 victory over the Fairbanks Ice Dogs in Game 3 of their best-of-five Midwest Division semi-final series. The Wilderness began the scoring in the first period doing something they have had trouble doing through most of this playoff series—killing penalties. Fairbanks came into the game 4-for-8 on the power play, and on their first... Full story
Those looking to celebrate Earth Day in the community have at least two options in Cloquet this weekend and next. The Cloquet Public Library will host an Earth Day celebration from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 23 at the library, 320 14th St. The free event is open to all ages and will feature a kids’ clothing swap, DIY no-sew T-shirt bag, grow-your-own cucumber seedling, book sale and more. The City of Cloquet and the Boldt Company are organizing the second annual Cloquet Earth Day cleanup f... Full story
Three kittens are safe and sound thanks to an alert RV owner and Cloquet firefighters, police officers and an animal rescue volunteer who all came to the rescue. On April 12, a camper owner heard baby kittens crying inside the vehicle when he returned from shopping at the Walmart store in Cloquet. Cloquet police officer Elijah Haglund responded and soon got Jodi Carlson of Missing Pets of the Northland involved. According to the Missing Pets Facebook page, Carlson tried to lure the kittens with...
For those wondering how Carmen Purcell has fared in her mission to aid or rescue a Ukrainian teenager she considers a member of the family, things are moving in the right direction. When the Pine Knot News last wrote about Carmen and Craig Purcell and their fears for Sonia, a 14-year-old they hosted here in Minnesota when she was 9, Sonia and her parents were living in a town occupied by Russians, but not under direct attack. That was March 4, eight days after the war began. (See "Family has dee... Full story
There’s been a truly serviceable public service announcement on area radio stations since the pandemic started. I say that because Kevin Love, the former Minnesota Timberwolves player, is speaking about anxieties in troubled times and turning to mindfulness. Then he guides a small exercise, asking that we take a “big, deep breath,” “in, and out,” “just breathing.” The PSA is on the radio a lot, and each time I hear it, I take those breaths. It’s a great prompt to “be kind to ourselves.” The pandemic has hit everyone in different ways, but... Full story
Former Cloquet-Esko-Carlton hockey player Karson Kuhlman picked up his first goal for his new team, the Seattle Kraken of the National Hockey League, on April 9. Kuhlman was picked up in January, after being put on waivers by the Boston Bruins, and almost immediately injured. But he's healthy now. The situation in Seattle for Kuhlman is a better one for him since he will now have an opportunity to be in the lineup on an everyday basis, compared to his time with the Bruins. On April 9, Kuhlman... Full story
