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When I was a kid, my family used to hold weekly meetings to check in on how things were going and what was on the calendar coming up for the week ahead. We’d talk about some highlights from the past week and share what we were looking forward to in the week ahead. This month, there are a lot of things to look forward to in Wrenshall, so pull out a calendar and take notes. Basketball starts up again, and both boys and girls have home games in December. The girls play Cromwell Dec. 12 and East C...
The Christmas season is upon us, and I finally finished putting up my Christmas lights. Then the storm came with a vengeance and covered some of the reindeer and trees. I will do my best to clear things out before Christmas and the Carlton Holiday Market. Please take time to visit the Carlton Holiday Market Dec. 7. For more than 30 years before the holiday market started, we held a craft show at Carlton High School. At first, the Carlton Hockey Association organized it as a fundraiser to help...
Boys basketball • Carlton at Wrenshall at 7:15 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6 • Cloquet vs Esko at 7:15 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6 • Cromwell-Wright at McGregor at 7:15 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6 • Esko at St. Paul Johnson at 3:00 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7 • Cloquet vs Hermantown at 7:15 p.m.Tuesday, Dec. 10 • Carlton vs Northland at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10 • Esko vs Duluth Denfeld at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10 • FDL Ojibwe vs Bigfork at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10 • Wrenshall vs Lakeview Christian Academy at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10 • Carlton vs Silver Bay at 6:30...
As proposed 2020 tax statements arrived in mailboxes this week, some Carlton County residents were shocked to find out just how much their property tax bill is likely to increase next year. Thanks to a triple whammy of decreasing utility company valuations, increasing local taxes and higher assessed values for most residential properties, some homeowners could see their taxes payable in 2020 increase by as much as 30 percent. Residents of Perch Lake, Silver Brook, Twin Lakes and Sawyer...
Two pieces of great news came out of Monday’s Cloquet school board meeting: 1.The school district tax levy will increase by less than half a percent; 2.The district is part of a consortium of mostly Carlton County school districts that was awarded a $1.5 million grant ($750,000 each year for the next two years) to expand and explore the career and technical education programs in the area. Other school districts in the group include Barnum, Carlton, Cromwell-Wright, Esko, McGregor, Moose Lake, Willow River and Wrenshall. All of the districts a...
Gratitude can be a funny thing; it's often the case that when you have less of something, you tend to be thankful for it more than when you have it in abundance. Take light, for instance. This time of year we have a lot less of the stuff compared to summertime. By the winter solstice (December 21) we'll have eight and a half hours of daylight versus the almost 16 hours of daylight we get at the end of June. I think the increasing darkness is one of the reasons holiday lighting gives me such...
Boys basketball Fond du Lac Ojibwe vs Mountain Iron-Buhl at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30 Cloquet vs Barnum at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30 Cloquet at Duluth East at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3 Carlton vs East Central at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3 Cromwell-Wright at Barnum at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3 Carlton at Wrenshall at 7:15 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6 Cloquet vs Esko at 7:15 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6 Cromwell-Wright at McGregor at 7:15 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6 Girls basketball Cloquet vs Bloomington Jefferson at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30 Cromwell-Wright vs Barnum at...
While the Carlton and Wrenshall school boards continue slow-moving consolidation talks, some students in the neighboring school districts say they want to be one school district already. “The kids said they won’t play the Jug game,” Community Ed director Julie Jacobson told the Wrenshall board Monday. “They’re done competing against each other.” Senior Randy Wimmer said that’s been a discussion point among his teammates. A football player on the inaugural Carlton/Wrenshall Raptors football team this fall, Wimmer is transitioning to basketball...
Development on Big Lake, the future of the sanitary district, cooperative zoning and boat enforcement all entered the discussion at an Oct. 28 meeting between the Fond Du Lac Reservation Business Committee members and officials from Carlton County. The county was represented by Commissioners Dick Brenner and Tom Proulx, zoning and environmental services administrator Heather Cunningham, zoning inspector Dave Hurst, and county coordinator Dennis Genereau. The agenda of the meeting and observations were presented at the Carlton County board meeti...
As a locally owned newspaper hyper-focused on local news, with local owners and support from local neighbors, no one understands the concept of supporting a local business more than we do at the Pine Knot News. Our owners subscribe to the local papers including the Proctor Journal, the Moose Lake Star Gazette, the Hermantown Star and the Duluth News Tribune. Heck, we even get the competing Pine Journal, even though most of their stories are recycled Duluth stories with just a small amount of unique local news. That’s because we are true l...
Girls hockey • CEC vs Grand Rapids at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 26 • CEC vs. International Falls at 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30 Boys hockey • CEC at Chaska at 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23 Junior hockey • Minnesota Wilderness vs. Austin Bruins at 7:05 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 27 • Minnesota Wilderness at Austin Bruins at 7:05 p.m. Friday, Nov. 29 Girls basketball • Cloquet at Esko at 7:15 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22 • Cloquet vs. Bloomington Jefferson at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30 • Wrenshall at North Lakes Academy Tuesday, Nov. 26 with time TBD • Carlton vs. Denfe...
The phrase Wrenshall resident James Sheetz keeps coming back to is "Now, what just happened?" His sister, Diana Sheetz Carlson, died by suicide in 2013. "It's still there, like every once in a while you get a jolt," he said. One of the ways that Sheetz has dealt with his grief over the last six years is through music. "It just touches your soul in a way that just words can't. It's like the music starts and everything just shifts." Sheetz is a trained musician and conductor and produces regular...
When Neil and Theresa Erickson bought Carlton's Woodland Grocery back in 2013, it was already like an old familiar friend. Theresa had found her first job at the store, which was then owned by her uncle, Richard Meger. She had worked there, off and on, since 1995. Neil grew up on a family farm in the Wrenshall area and knew the store at 500 Third Street in Carlton, including its excellent meat department. He met Theresa in 2000. They got married and started a family. Theresa had the store in...
After three failed referendums, at a community cost of $100,000 or so, Wrenshall has reached out to Carlton Schools to consolidate, costing both communities once again. I attended a public meeting at the Sawyer Community Center where Ehlers and ARI presented preliminary estimates from $38-$40 million for a two-site option. Both superintendents spoke of their possible options for consolidation and option No. 6 for Carlton would be to dissolve and sell the high school to the county. If indeed this were to occur, it would be a sad day for Carlton...
The results of what at times was a contentious meeting of school board members from Wrenshall and Carlton Tuesday will be seen at each board's regular meetings next week. There should be two identical resolutions on the respective agendas. They will be worded the same, but judging from the conversation at the joint meeting Tuesday, they're being crafted by two clashing mindsets. Wrenshall board members were expecting a firm commitment from the Carlton board that it was moving ahead on...
Wrenshall coach Jeremy Zywicki was recently named coach of the year for the 9 Man North White district of the Minnesota State High School Football League for his work this year with the new Carlton/Wrenshall Raptors. This honor prompted me to check in with Coach Zywicki and co-coach Jason Crane. The two led the team to an 8-0 record in the regular season. According to Zywicki, the accomplishment is due in large part to the positive, hard-working students who made the dream of this season a...
Thomas Jefferson wrote, “Wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government.” I would like to commend the Carlton School Board for providing voters with detailed information on various building and consolidation scenarios. The public’s request for this information was made clearly known through their Community Advisory Committee’s Strategic Planning Report, and the board has responded. The school board has now given voters the information they need to make an informed choice. However, as individual board members...
When I moved to Wrenshall after graduate school in New York City I had many friends and colleagues tell me some version of the same thing: “Oh, what a unique thing. Art and farming. How can you possibly pursue art living in the country?” There is a false divide in our popular culture and a pervasive understanding that urban centers should be hubs that export culture and import food. We celebrate the idea of terroir when it applies to wine or food — the idea that a particular grape can take...
Public meetings are continuing on the question of consolidation between the Carlton and Wrenshall school districts and it seems a bit of a divide lingers between residents in each district. A handful of people braved the nor’easter storm on Oct. 21 for the first public meeting outlining the two-site consolidation plan and its associated costs. There, the pressing question was about whether or not to keep the current nonfunctioning pool at the Wrenshall school or scrap it. Another question rang loud and clear as well: What does the Carlton schoo...
Churchill Elementary School students are captivated by soprano Siena Forest as she performs in "Cinderella" with the Little Opera of the North program Oct. 24. The traveling show aims to introduce younger children to the joys of opera. According to music teacher Regina Roemhildt, 47 fourth graders tried out and 18 were chosen to perform with four professional singers and a pianist in the opera, which did the same thing in Wrenshall Oct. 21 and will visit Washington Elementary School in...
Genevieve A. Laubach, 93, formerly of Wrenshall, died Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, in Essentia-St. Mary’s Medical Center in Duluth. A Mass of Christian Burial was scheduled for Oct. 30 at St. Francis Catholic Church in Carlton. Interment in St. Francis Catholic Cemetery. To view the guest book, visit www.nelsonfuneralcare.net. Daniel Dean Strand, 62, of Cloquet passed away Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019, after a lengthy battle with cancer. A gathering of family and friends was scheduled for 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31 in the Fireside Room of A...
Dave Hanlon was succinct. "Its just a stupid amount of carrots." That's how Hanlon, from the Food Farm in Wrenshall, describes our record-breaking harvest this fall. In the last two weeks we've pulled more than 75,000 pounds of carrots out of the ground, all despite what farmer Janaki Fisher-Merritt describes as "challenging conditions." A dry summer sandwiched between a wet spring and fall made for difficult harvest weather. But the outcome was by far the best we've ever experienced for the...
Now that Halloween has come and gone, we can look forward to the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. There are some among us who groan and “bah humbug” about the holidays, but there are others, like myself, who will be putting up a Christmas light display for all to enjoy. My family has been putting up lighted trees, reindeer, blow-up snowmen and strings of lights on the house since the 1990s. This year my gratitude goes out to Mark Larson, Stanley McKibbon, Nikki Rackliffe and Lucy Rackliffe f...
No matter which exit you take, next week's Roundabout: North Carlton County Art Tour offers a different artistic experience at each of its seven stops: A theater. A museum. Two grand historic homes. A ceramics studio. An arts-centric shop. A working newspaper office. "The arts enrich our lives, whether you are a doer or an observer," said local artist Kris Nelson, who also curates the gallery at the Encore. Visit one or visit all seven roundabout locations between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov...
Great cross country runners are built. While genetics probably helps, it's the miles and miles of running that really makes the difference. But a little strategy helps as well, first-year Cloquet coach Chandra Allen implied in an interview after the Section 7AA cross country meet Thursday, where the Lumberjacks boys team took second and the girls took third. The boys are headed to the 2019 Class AA Cross Country State Meet as a team for the fourth year in a row, while the girls are sending...
