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Last Thursday, the Barnum volleyball team swept Cromwell-Wright and then had a successful Saturday at the Mesabi East Tournament, going 3-1 on the day. "Right now our team is meshing well together," said Barnum coach Corina Newman. "The girls are playing pretty well together, but we have had to overcome an injury, so that is something we are still working out." The Bombers lost sophomore middle hitter Ivy Polecheck to injury. "Ivy rolled her ankle and we've been trying to find someone to fill...
Friday, Oct. 15 All games at 7 p.m. • Barnum vs Chisholm • Carlton/Wrenshall vs Northland, canceled (the Raptors had another Covid-19 case) • Cloquet vs Pine City • Cromwell-Wright/Floodwood vs McGregor • Moose Lake/Willow River vs Hinckley-Finlayson Saturday, Oct. 16 Girls swimming • CEC at Lincoln Park Middle School, 1 p.m. Volleyball • Esko at Eastview tournament Monday, Oct. 18 Volleyball All varsity games at 7 p.m. • Barnum host Hinckley-Finlayson • Wrenshall at Cherry Tuesday, Oct. 19 Volleyball All varsity games at 7 p.m. • Cromwell-W...
Take a late afternoon tour of the grounds at the Haunted Shack with Pat Stojevich and you get the feeling that the name is a misnomer. It should be Love Shack, or Family Shack, Survivor Shack or even "Hey, I Got a Kidney" Shack. An energized Stojevich obviously still loves the monthlong dive into scaring people to raise money for charities. He's been at it for 28 years, making his operation the oldest of its type in the state and one of the oldest in the country. The Haunted Shack is a...
A Carlton man died from injuries sustained in a construction accident in Lindstrom, Minnesota last week. Developer Dave Chmielewski, 48, was standing near an excavation trench at an apartment building construction site on Sept. 28 when the trench partially collapsed. According to Lakes Area police chief Bill Schlumbohm, Chmielewski asked another person at the trench to go grab something. When the person returned, approximately two minutes later, he found Chmielewski partially buried inside the...
Thursday, Sept. 30 Girls soccer Cloquet-Carlton-3 Duluth Marshall-0 Hermantown-1 Esko-0 Volleyball Hibbing-3 Esko-1 Barnum-3 ML/WR-0 Friday, Oct. 1 Football Cloquet-14 Hermantown-7 Silver Bay-2 Carlton/Wrenshall-0 (Forfeit) ML/WR-64 Mesabi East-0 Barnum-70 Mille Lacs-0 Ogilvie-20 South Ridge-12 Cromwell-Wright-32 Ely-8 Saturday, Oct. 2 Girls soccer Chisago Lakes-2 Esko-1 Boys soccer CEC-2 Hermantown-1 Volleyball Mora Invite Cloquet-2 Mille Lacs-0 Cloquet-2 Mora-0 Greenway-2 Cloquet-1 Cloquet-2 Braham-0 (Cloquet finishes third) Moose...
So far this season both the Wrenshall and South Ridge volleyball teams have had to learn to adjust, thanks to injuries and the occasional Covid-19 exposure. Before their match Tuesday, the Pine Knot News sports department had a chance to catch up with both coaches to find out just how their seasons have progressed so far this season. "We had been playing pretty well until we suffered some injuries," said South Ridge head coach Brad Olesiak. "When we lost Svea Snickers to an injury, it changed a...
Friday, Oct. 8 Football All games at 7 p.m. unless noted Barnum at Deer River Carlton/Wrenshall at Ogilvie, 3 p.m. Cloquet at Rock Ridge (Eveleth-Gilbert) Cromwell-Wright/Floodwood at Silver Bay Esko at Hibbing Moose Lake/Willow River vs Braham South Ridge at McGregor Saturday, Oct. 9 Girls swimming CEC at Mesabi East High School, 9 a.m. Volleyball Barnum, Wrenshall at Mesabi East, 9:30 a.m. Esko at Proctor, 9 a.m. Cross Country Cloquet at Lester Park Golf Course, 10 a.m. Monday, Oct. 11 Volleyball Carlton at Hermantown, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct....
As many as six people have expressed interest in a once-again open seat on the Wrenshall school board. After a verified petition was submitted to the district to rescind a board appointment made in August, the board needed to make a plan for another appointment. Its original appointee, Bill Dian, is not eligible. More than 200 people were verified on the petition that asked for a more public appointment process after Michelle Blanchard left the board to serve as the school principal. The sudden appointment of Dian, with no previous public...
The Western Lake Superior Sanitary District (WLSSD) Board of Directors approved its 2022 operating and capital budgets at its regular board meeting this week. The Sanitary Board approved a 4.11-percent increase in wastewater charges as WLSSD restores operating and capital budgets back to levels similar to 2020. “We have all been significantly affected by Covid-19,” said WLSSD executive director Marianne Bohren. “Our 2022 budget reflects resuming the infrastructure reliability projects we put on hold for 2021 with so much economic uncer...
Patty Sue (Reponen) Ostoff, 52, of South Saint Paul passed away unexpectedly Sept. 21, 2021. She was born May 26, 1969 in Cloquet to Bill and Jean Reponen. Patty graduated from Carlton High School in 1987 and worked many years at Ramsey County Care Center in Maplewood. Patty loved the Minnesota Vikings and enjoyed riding motorcycles. She was preceded in death by her father, Bill Reponen. She is survived by her daughter, Cassie (Mike) Masteller of Alabama; stepson, Austin Ostoff of South Saint...
Friday, Sept. 24 Football East-21 Cloquet-7 South Ridge-32 Cromwell-Wright-12 Carlton/Wrenshall-13 North Central-6 Esko-36 Pine City-0 North Woods-28 Barnum-14 Saturday, Sept. 25 Boys Soccer CEC-1 Princeton-1 Girls Volleyball Virginia Invite Virginia-2 Cromwell-Wright-1 Northeast Range-2 Cromwell-Wright-0 Cromwell-Wright-2 Northwoods-1 Cromwell-Wright-2 MIB-1 Hibbing-2 South Ridge-0 Ely-2 South Ridge-0 Cloquet-2 MIB-0 Cloquet-2 Nashwauk-Keewatin-0 Cloquet-2 N’East Range-1 Championship Cloquet-2 Eveleth-Gilbert-0 Greyhound Invitational B...
Last week the Carlton/Wrenshall Raptors football team had to take a week off due to Covid restrictions and was unable to play their scheduled game with South Ridge. This week the Raptors got in a much-needed home game and came away with a solid 13-6 come-from-behind victory over North Central. "We had a solid game on defense," said Raptors coach Jeremy Zywicki. "We don't have a lot of bodies, but the guys played hard and played well." In their third year as a cooperative team, numbers are a...
There's nothing like an en masse victory formation. That's what Pine Knot photographers found this past week. Every point was sweet for the Cloquet volleyball team, above, as it swept Esko Tuesday, and Dave Harwig got the moment and the crowd. It was Dan Saletel capturing the Carlton/Wrenshall cheerleaders during a Raptors' home win last Friday. It wasn't first, but second sure wasn't bad for the CEC swim team, far left, at the Soderlind Invitational in Duluth as mom Nicole Sandman captured...
Friday, Oct. 1 Football All games at 7 p.m. unless noted • Barnum vs Mille Lacs • Carlton/Wrenshall vs Silver Bay • Cloquet at Hermantown • Cromwell-Wright/ Floodwood vs Ely • Moose Lake/Willow River at Mesabi East • South Ridge at Ogilvie • Esko vs Two Harbors, 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2 Boys soccer • Cloquet vs Hermantown, noon Girls soccer • Cloquet vs Hermantown, 2 p.m. • Esko vs Chisago Lakes, 4 p.m. Volleyball • Carlton, Cloquet at Mora tournament • Cromwell-Wright, Moose Lake at Moose Lake tournament Monday, Oct. 4 Boys soccer • Cloquet v...
A.J. Miller from Drone Grown Photography went out to the RuRidge Corn Maze last week. The maze, in its fifth year off Carlton County Road 1 between Carlton and Wrenshall, opened Sept. 10 and features an eight-acre acre corn maze, corn pits, hay rides, play area, straw bale maze, ninja course, petting zoo, horse and pony rides, pumpkin sales and painting, seasonal produce and a scavenger hunt. It is open Thursday through Sunday through Halloween night....
Students and community members turned out for Monday’s Carlton School Board meeting, and most of them had the future of the high school on their mind. Out of nearly 20 people there, seven spoke, all of them against the idea of a tuition agreement with the Cloquet school district. Such an agreement would guarantee that Carlton students in grades 9-12 could enroll in the larger district — at a cost to the Carlton district — if and when Carlton closes its high school. The current long-range plan fo...
The latest data for Carlton County show the number of Covid cases is still going up, but at a lower rate, according to the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cases in Carlton County increased by 84 from Sept. 15 to 22, but the CDC showed a decline in the rise of case numbers of nearly 7.6 percent on Wednesday, Sept. 22. The CDC also reported Carlton County’s rate of tests coming back positive at 4.4 percent (compared to an average of 6 percent statewide), one new hospital admission and zero deaths from Covid over the past seve...
Friday, Sept. 17 Football Grand Rapids-20 Cloquet-13 Barnum-24 Braham-0 Esko-54 Proctor-0 South Ridge-38 Cook County-0 Hill City/Northland-32 Cromwell-Wright/ Floodwood-7 ML/WR-36 Greenway/Nashwauk- Keewatin-0 Saturday, Sept. 18 Volleyball (tournaments) Minnetonka • Minnetonka-2, Cloquet-0 • Rochester Mayo-2, Cloquet-0 • Cloquet-2, Cretin Derham Hall-0 • Benilde-SM-2, Cloquet-0 Crosby-Ironton • Ada-Borup-2, ML/WR-0 • Deer River-2, ML/WR-0 • ML/WR-2, East Central-0 • Barnum-2, Mille Lacs-0 • Pine River-Backus-2, Barnum-0 Girls Soccer Esko-3 Pro...
Friday, Sept. 24 Football All games at 7 p.m. unless noted Carlton/Wrenshall vs Kelliher/Northome Cloquet vs Duluth East Cromwell-Wright/Floodwood at South Ridge Esko at Pine City Moose Lake/Willow River vs Crosby-Ironton Barnum at North Woods, 3:15 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 25 Girls soccer Esko vs Benilde-St. Margaret's, 4 p.m. Boys soccer CEC at Princeton, 1 p.m. Girls swimming CEC at Lincoln Park Middle School, 1 p.m. Girls tennis CEC at Saint Francis, 9 a.m. Volleyball Cloquet, South Ridge and...
A petition to rescind a school board appointment in Wrenshall has been turned in to the school district office. Superintendent Kim Belcastro reported at the regular school board meeting Monday night that the petition had 200 signatures on it. If all of the signatures are valid, it would be well above the required signatures required by state statute, which set the amount at 5 percent of eligible voters in a district, or, in Wrenshall, 168 people. The petition will now be reviewed by the district’s head of elections, Beth Peterson. If enough s...
The furor over masks continued at the Cloquet school board meeting this week, with five of seven audience members addressing the board about the district's universal mask mandate for all grade levels. Again, Cloquet parents opposed to masking told board members - with varying degrees of hostility - that their decisions were not based in fact, and that masking children has no direct correlation to the spread of the coronavirus and they should stop. Meanwhile, up the road in Esko - where masks...
Things are growing at Fond du Lac's farm Gitigaaning, or place of the gardens, and it's not just vegetables. Health. Knowledge. Buildings. Resources. Confidence. Food security. Friendships. Community. Of course, there are plenty of vegetables growing there, nurtured by individual growers on their own small lots: corn, beans, melon, sunflowers, pumpkins, zucchini, sweetgrass, borage, peppers, tobacco, ground cherries, squash, kale, broccoli, cauliflower; the list goes on. It's all part of the...
Thursday, Sept. 9 Volleyball Barnum-3 Esko-0 Cloquet-3 Eveleth-Gilbert-0 Carlton-3 McGregor-0 South Ridge-3 ML-WR-0 Boys soccer CEC-3 Hermantown-0 Girls Soccer Bemidji-3 Cloquet-0 Friday, Sept. 10 Football Cloquet-42 Denfeld-6 McGregor-54 Carlton/Wrenshall-34 Hill City/Northland-26 South Ridge-12 ML/WR-55 International Falls-0 Esko-41 Mora-14 Barnum-52 East Central-0 Tuesday, Sept. 14 Volleyball Cloquet-3 ML/WR-0 Barnum-3 Crosby-Ironton-0 South Ridge-3 Silver Bay-0 Duluth East-3 Carlton-0 Marshall-3 Wrenshall-1 Boys Soccer CEC-6 Hibbing-0...
Friday, Sept. 17 Football All games at 7 p.m. • Barnum at Braham • Carlton/Wrenshall, canceled • Cloquet vs Grand Rapids • Cromwell-Wright/ Floodwood vs Northland • Esko vs Proctor • Moose Lake/WR at Greenway/NK (Coleraine) • South Ridge vs Cook County Sat., Sept. 18 Girls soccer • Cloquet at Two Rivers, 2 p.m. Boys soccer • CEC at Hermantown for multiple games, 12 p.m. Volleyball • Barnum at Crosby-Ironton, 9 a.m. • Cloquet at Minnetonka, 8 a.m. • Moose Lake at Crosby-Ironton, 9 a.m. Monday, Sept. 20 Girls soccer • Cloquet vs Denfeld, 4:45...
The strangest rain cloud scuttled from the northwest to southeast across northern Carlton County Wednesday night. A narrow squall poured rain, cuffed by ragged and then bloomy cloud formations. Then, on both sides, clear sky. Arching through all of it was a clear, full rainbow, large enough to cover the entire city of Wrenshall and its environs. Under the bright red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet was the school, where about 50 people ended up gathering for a school board meeting. To say matters surrounding the board lately...
