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If one had stumbled upon the library at Carlton High School on Monday, you would have gotten the impression you were eavesdropping on some sort of couples therapy. There was talk about doing the right thing for the kids. Talk about trauma. About threats perceived and then called misconstrued. Talk about taking a breath and letting cooler heads prevail. There were demands made and demands denied. There was talk of impasses rebutted with carrying on, keeping the dialogue going. To someone who...
Wrenshall High School English teacher Ted Conover said students in his College in the Schools composition course were eager to add to local discourse. So they revised and shortened their long-form problem-solution essays on local issues into print-length editorials, and shared those with the Pine Knot News. Topics range from addressing issues in local schools, arts, athletics, all the way up to state funding and the Legislature — and we are sharing them with you. Enjoy these writings. The first batch appeared in last week’s Pine Knot The fig...
Thursday, Feb. 29 Boys basketball Cloquet 93 Proctor 53 Annandale 74 (OT) Esko 73 Carlton/Wrenshall 80 Fond du Lac 67 Friday, March 1 Boys basketball Two Harbors 67 Barnum 66 Fond du Lac 61 Ely 54 ML/WR 73 Pillager 58 Girls basketball Section 7AA Mesabi East 58 ML/WR 19 Esko 92 International Falls 32 Hinckley-Finlayson 61 Barnum 38 Section 7A Cromwell-Wright 82 Fond du Lac 24 Saturday, March 2 Girls basketball Section 7AAA Cloquet 74 Grand Rapids 60 Section 7AA Proctor 55 Esko 52 Section 7A Cromwell-Wright 79 Hill City/Northland 36 South Ridge...
And then there were two. The two remaining local teams in the Section 7A girls basketball tournament are Cromwell-Wright and South Ridge. Both teams won twice last week and entered Wednesday night's semifinal round at UMD after presstime. Wednesday night the Cards, who are the No. 1 south seed, were scheduled to take on the No. 2 north seed, the Ely Timberwolves, in a 5 p.m. affair. That game was scheduled to be followed by the No. 1 north seed, Mt. Iron-Buhl, taking on the No. 2 south seed,...
While the girls basketball playoffs are entering their final stages, the boys sectional tournaments finally kicked off this week. The Pine Knot News offers this overview of local boys basketball teams and the potential matchups over the next week. Section 7A South Ridge entered the tournament as the No. 8 south seed and had a play-in game on Monday against No. 9 seed Floodwood. The Panthers handled the Floodwood Polar Bears by a score of 71-30. The victory moves the Panthers into a second-round...
Joint meetings of the Carlton and Wrenshall school boards that had been scheduled to commence the first Monday in March have been put on hold. Instead, the smaller consolidation committee will meet at 5 p.m. Monday in the boardroom at Carlton High School. The committee, or consolidation team, meetings are open to the public, and feature superintendents as well as board chairs for both districts. Carlton and Wrenshall districts are moving toward consolidation into a single district as soon as the 2025-26 school year. School boards from both...
George Bernard Shaw was riffing on Thomas Jefferson when he once wrote: “Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.” Are we deserving? There is one way you might answer that question this month. You can take part in an annual township meeting on March 12. Yes, national politics gets all the ire and fire these days, but don’t take your most-local government for granted. Townships are the epitome of democracy, the oldest form of representation in the country. At the annual meeting you can learn about the l...
Wrenshall High School English teacher Ted Conover said students in his College in the Schools composition course were eager to add to local discourse. So they revised and shortened their long-form problem-solution essays on local issues into print-length editorials, and shared those with the Pine Knot News. Topics range from addressing issues in local schools, arts, athletics, all the way up to state funding and the Legislature — and we are sharing them with you this week and next. Enjoy these thought-provoking writings from Wrenshall. Book b...
Thursday, Feb. 22 Boys Basketball Cloquet 72 Grand Rapids 63 Girls Basketball Fond du Lac Ojibwe 61 Silver Bay 46 Cherry 65 Carlton/Wrenshall 41 Braham 93 Barnum 42 Cromwell-Wright 68 Floodwood 27 Cloquet 58 Hibbing 27 Friday, Feb. 23 Boys Basketball Carlton/Wrenshall 80 Cromwell-Wright 72 Barnum 77 Cook County 36 Ely 83 South Ridge 73 Girls Basketball Ely 60 South Ridge 50 Saturday, Feb. 24 Boys Hockey Section 7A playoffs Hibbing/Chisholm 4 CEC 2 Boys Basketball Superior 76 Esko 64 Monday, Feb. 26 Boys Basketball Carlton/Wrenshall 82 Proctor...
Playing in the Carlton gym for the only time this season Friday, the Raptors defeated Cromwell-Wright 80-72 in a homecoming tour de force. "I was pretty nervous going into the game," said Shawn Filipiak, head coach of the combined Carlton/Wrenshall team. "This was the first time we hosted the game in Carlton this season, but the boys came out hot and firing on all cylinders and then kind of just settled into the game." Key for the Raptors was the hot start by guard Carter Woodall, who entered...
Meeting for the third time this season Wednesday night, Cloquet dispatched Hibbing with ease, 56-20, in the quarterfinals of the Section 7AAA tournament. The Lumberjacks will move on to play in the Section 7AAA semifinals at 1 p.m. Saturday at home against the winner of Grand Rapids and Chisago Lakes. Cloquet did not play Chisago Lakes during the season, but they did play Grand Rapids twice. Both times the Lumberjacks came out on top. The Lumberjacks first win against Hibbing this season came in...
The path to healthy food systems is a convergence of many tracks beaten by Indigenous elders, ambitious innovators, eager youth, and patient visionaries. Midwest farmers are in the vanguard with gatherings such as the Marbleseed conference, the region’s premier event for organic agriculture, which took place in La Crosse, Wisconsin Feb, 22-24. Over 1,400 people gathered to share ideas and experience. Three speakers at the general session gave new energy to “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.” Ben Hartm...
CLASS A Floodwood vs Carlton/Wrenshall, 43-30 South Ridge vs Silver Bay, 87-61 - South Ridge will play Floodwood at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, March 2 at Esko Cromwell-Wright 82, Fond du Lac 24 - Cromwell-Wright plays Hill City at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 2 at Esko CLASS AA Esko 92, International Falls 32 - Esko plays Proctor at 11 a.m. Saturday Moose Lake/Willow River 19, Mesabi East 58 CLASS AAA Cloquet vs Hibbing, 58-20 Cloquet (18 - 9) - Lelani Fonoti 6, Ava Carlson 10, Quinn Danielson 13, Carly Johnson 10, Riley Goranson 6, Kiley Issendorf 2....
Superintendent Donita Stepan asked the Carlton school board to downsize staff by more than four full-time positions, including three teachers, during Tuesday’s school board meeting. Included in the cuts were one full-time position at South Terrace Elementary and the band program at the middle school/highschool. Declining enrollments and the accompanying decrease in revenue from the state have driven the retrenchment. In her remarks on the issue, Stepan pointed to the unassigned general fund balance — which should be kept to at least 16 per...
THUMBS UP to the Moose Lake city council for its unpopular but fiscally responsible decision to contract with Carlton County for its law enforcement needs. The months-long saga ended last week, in what many considered disappointing fashion, with a 3-2 vote. Choosing the Sheriff's Office to provide four deputies and a part-time clerk to cover the city meant dissolving the city's long-standing police force. But the force had dwindled to one, a result of disgruntled officers resigning and early...
Thursday, Feb. 15 Boys Basketball Hibbing 71 ML/WR 66 Esko 89 Bemidji 70 North Woods 97 Fond du Lac Ojibwe 81 Girls Basketball Esko 66 Hermantown 44 Two Harbors 51 Carlton/Wrenshall 25 South Ridge 55 Floodwood 35 Cromwell-Wright 75 Pine River-Backus 45 Friday, Feb. 16 Boys Basketball Carlton/Wrenshall 85 Two Harbors 76 Esko 64 Barnum 50 ML/WR 87 Cloquet 79 South Ridge 67 Floodwood 53 Girls Basketball Hinckley-Finlayson 60 ML/WR 32 Saturday, Feb. 17 Boys Hockey Section 7A play-in International Falls 8 Moose Lake Area 4 Girls Basketball Cloquet...
Friday, Feb. 23 Girls Basketball ML/WR vs East Central, 7 Boys Basketball Barnum vs Cook County, 6:15 Cromwell-Wright at Carlton/Wrenshall (Carlton), 6:15 Saturday, Feb. 24 Boys 7A Hockey playoffs CEC vs Hibbing, 8, at Amsoil Boys Basketball Esko vs Superior, 3 Wrestling CEC Sectional at Grand Rapids Monday, Feb. 26 Boys Basketball Cromwell-Wright vs Chisholm, 7:15 Barnum at Rush City, 7:15 Carlton/Wrenshall vs Proctor, 7:15 Fond du Lac vs South Ridge, 7:15 Wednesday, Feb. 28 Boys 7A Hockey playoffs Championship game TBD, 7, at Amsoil Girls...
In the widespread transition to green energy, motivated entrepreneurs are developing projects that can benefit from federal and state government spending. The Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTs), a partnership of four Minnesota institutions, encourages such projects through seed grants awarded in seven regions throughout the state. This year, the Northeast CERT awarded the Food Farm in Wrenshall $5,000 to conduct an in-depth energy analysis of its operation, with the goal to establish a...
Carlton High School announced its list of postsecondary education option (PSEO) students in good academic standing, with a GPA of 3.0 and above. The list includes seniors Michael Cadotte, Sam Ojibway, Gibson Reed and Dante Thompson; and juniors Lauryn Hilton, Julia Peterson, Kayla Radtke and Skyler Vernon. • • Minnesota State University Mankato announced its academic high honor and honor lists for the fall semester. A total of 1,227 students qualified for the high honor list by achieving a 4.0...
Finally legal Marlys Kilen of Cloquet will celebrate her 21st birthday on Feb. 29. "I'll be at an age when I can start to drink," chortled Kilen, who will be 84 years old. Growing up in Lakefield, in southern Minnesota - where she had one classmate, her future husband's cousin, born on the same day - her parents couldn't agree when to celebrate her birthday in non-leap years. Mom said Feb. 28. Dad suggested March 1, because she would be officially another year older then. "So we celebrated both...
The smile on Janae Sjodin's face was everything. But then someone must have said, "But wait, there's more." Wrenshall High School principal Michelle Blanchard called it all "surreal," like "something out of a movie." That Sjodin - the 2023 winter homecoming queen - was at the 2024 coronation on Friday, Feb. 9, to present new royalty was a real miracle. Eleven months ago, she was driving home with her sister Jaela after softball practice when their SUV was hit on Janae's side by a driver who...
It was a royal night of homecoming for schools on opposite ends of Carlton County last Friday....
Public finance advisers Ehlers told the Carlton school board on Monday that a consolidation with Wrenshall would be close to revenue-neutral with only a slight decrease in state aid for the new combined school district. Aaron Bushberger, Ehlers’ municipal advisor, forecasted revenues that could be expected from a consolidation between Carlton and Wrenshall. Because the new district would be larger, it loses certain state aid to the tune of $61,000, which is partially offset by an increase of over $23,000 in the total tax levy, resulting in a n...
THURSDAY, FEB. 8 BOYS HOCKEY CEC 3 Sartell 2 Northern Lakes 5 Moose Lake Area 0 BOYS BASKETBALL Denfeld 70 Cloquet 59 GIRLS BASKETBALL North Woods 72 Fond du Lac 21 Cloquet 82 Coon Rapids 69 South Ridge 30 Cromwell-Wright 29 Pequot Lakes 50 Esko 40 Moose Lake/WR 50 Two Harbors 48 FRIDAY, FEB. 9 BOYS BASKETBALL Carlton/Wrenshall 71 Barnum 58 Moose Lake/WR 77 Two Harbors 73 Cromwell-Wright 67 South Ridge 53 BOYS HOCKEY Northeast Range/Ely 5 Moose Lake Area 4 SATURDAY, FEB. 10 GIRLS HOCKEY Section 7A Semifinals Proctor/Hermantown 6 CEC 0 Duluth...
