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The CarltonCounty Fruit.org. website is the one-stop spot for information on local fruit farms. The site has links to each farm website and/or social media pages along with hotline numbers for picking times. Leaning Barn Farm 218-349-7696 176 Thomson Road Esko Sweet Land Farm 264 Prevost Road Cloquet 218-260-9448 Blackbirds & Blueberries 3601 Crosby Road Cloquet 218-879-8193 Spectrum Farm Strawberries 2332 County Road 4 Carlton 218-389-6265 Farm LoLa 852 Cemetery Road Wrenshall 218-203-5995 Chub Lake Blueberries 2001 Kiehl Road Carlton...
Wrenshall High School Fourth Quarter A Honor Roll Natylee Anderson Connar Ankrum Patrick Ankrum Liam Bruce Megan Carlson Sage Fernquist Mason Goetz Brie Hoglund Brooke Kent Kaylie Lammi Elliana Lattu Elise Loucks Ryan Mattson Alex Murray Samantha Nyberg Andres Padilla Isaias Padilla Camden Peterson Abbie Resberg Owen Resberg Isabel Riley Jack Riley Zeke Rousseau-Sheff Molly Sheda Janae Sjodin Jeshua Sjodin Birk Stensaas Alexis Swanson Nadia Tessier Eli Twedt Rilee Wolfe Look for more honor rolls, including Wrenshall’s B honor roll, in next w...
This past weekend we planned a pizza party to celebrate many colliding holidays. There were birthdays, Father's Day, and the summer solstice. But the biggest celebration was for the inch of rain that fell on the farm. While we're probably back to irrigating at the end of this week, it was a welcome drink of water for all the organisms that make this acreage home. One crop that seems unfazed by the unpredictable weather conditions is rhubarb. A healthy fistful of stalks was sent in our first...
Nick Olson of Cloquet was named to the spring semester dean’s list at the University of Minnesota Crookston. Colter Hendrickson of Esko was named to the University of Utah’s spring dean’s list. Andy Acers of Cloquet was named to Hamline University’s School of Business spring dean’s list. On the list from Hamline’s College of Liberal Arts are four students from Cloquet: Caelyn Androsky, Kylee Donfris, Savannah Lyytinen, and Sarena Sabyan. Hannah Lattu of Wrenshall was named to the University of Minnesota Duluth’s spring dean’s list. Ellie Gamrad...
Some folks come to farming through family generations, finding themselves tilling the soil on acres cleared and planted by those whose DNA inhabits the cells in their bodies. Others arrive on the land through a much more circuitous route. Adam Kemp of Uff-Da Organics is one of these people. He began his farming career 12 years ago when he was hired at Northern Harvest Farm and discovered an affinity for working the land and growing healthy food. A music composition major at the University of...
Sometimes we hold a treasure within our reach without an awareness of its value and, as the refrain from the song "Big Yellow Taxi" goes, "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you don't know what you got till it's gone." Many states across the country are recognizing what the loss of family farms means to our quality of life in rural areas. Carlton County's farms constitute a wealth of wholesome food and valuable resources in our backyards, but do we truly appreciate our farmers?...
High schools across the county celebrated graduation Friday with confetti, speeches and congratulations, and the tossing of brightly colored caps up into the air, to celebrate the end of an unprecedented school year fully gripped by the Covid-19 pandemic. In Cloquet, graduation was held outside on the football field, with graduates and families on or near the field and other audience members in the bleachers. In Carlton, Wrenshall, Cromwell and the Fond du Lac Ojibwe school, the ceremonies were...
It's a big week for high school baseball teams this week as the sectional baseball tournaments kicked off with state tournament berths at stake. With presstime on Wednesday evening, we both preview and update games this week. Section 7AA The Section 7AA tournament featured No. 1 seed Esko opening the postseason Tuesday against No. 16 Rush City and cruising to an easy 7-0 victory. Noah Furcht led the Eskomos with a three-hit night and also scored a pair of runs. No. 2 seed Aitkin opened play...
It was a decision no grandparent should have to make. Phyllis Rousseau thought she was going to have to choose between attending the Carlton and Wrenshall graduation ceremonies — originally scheduled at the same time Friday — and how’s a grandmother supposed to choose between two grandsons who are both valedictorians of their classes? That’s right. Grandson Zeke Rousseau-Sheff is valedictorian for the Class of 2021 in Wrenshall, while grandson Spencer Rousseau is valedictorian for the Class o...
The South Ridge girls softball team picked up another important section win Tuesday night when they downed the Wrenshall Wrens 13-0. "Their pitcher (Kent) throws hard and she is just a good pitcher," said Panthers head coach Brad Olesiak. "We got some important hits at the right time, and we are getting better." The Panthers scored three runs in the first inning and then added single tallies in the second, third and fourth innings, a pair in the fifth and then exploded for five runs in the sixth...
Terrance Michael Koski, 71, died Dec. 3, 2020 at the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. Graveside service: 11 a.m. Monday, June 7 at Maple Grove Cemetery in Cloquet. Nelson Funeral Care, 218-879-3225 Kay Lenore Burgraff, 69, of Duluth, formerly of Holyoke, passed away Feb. 28, 2021 in St. Luke's Hospital in Duluth. Celebration of Life: 1-4 p.m. Saturday, May 29 in the Silver Brook Town Hall in Wrenshall. A private family burial will be in Holyoke Cemetery. Atkins Northland Funeral Home, Cloquet....
Part of our responsibility as Cloquet’s only locally based newspaper is to attend local government meetings and report back to you. It’s a primary function of local journalists, and we take that responsibility very seriously. That’s why we send reporters to attend every Cloquet City Council meeting, every Carlton County Board meeting and many school board meetings in Esko, Carlton, Wrenshall and Cloquet, as well as other government meetings. Citizens need and rely on the Fourth Estate as watchdogs to ensure our government is working openly and...
This is the first year Wrenshall has run a Gender-Sexualities Alliance club. I interviewed the co-advisors as well as the student leader of the group, and they told me about the importance of this group to the Wrenshall community. At first they were reluctant to share details, likening the group to a secret society, but eventually they came around and let me in on what they do in their tight-knit community. English teacher Ted Conover and media library assistant Chloe Swanson co-advise the...
The Wrenshall school board opted for a very familiar face when it comes to hiring a principal for the next school year. Board president Michelle Blanchard was chosen last week after the board interviewed three candidates. The position is being created as superintendent Kim Belcastro goes to a part-time role solely as superintendent, giving up her time in principal duties at the school. The board cut the dean of students position for a fulltime K-12 principal, eventually saving money in the new administrative structure. Blanchard is a Wrenshall...
Victor Moretto, 86, died at home May 16, 2021, from bone cancer. He was born May 13, 1935, at home, the youngest of 10 children, in Dewey, Wisconsin. He worked at U.S. Steel in Duluth for many years and later drove a school bus in Carlton. In 1957, he married Shirley "Sam" (Blume) Moretto. He is survived by her; two daughters, Patti Sitzman (Paul) and Pamela Dragicevich (Mike); and six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Preceding him in death were his parents, all of his siblings, and...
Melanie Joy Synkiew, 57, of Cloquet died Feb. 13. Graveside service: 1 p.m. Saturday, May 29 at Round Lake Cemetery in McGregor. Arrangements by Atkins-Northland Funeral Home, Cloquet.\ Kay Lenore Burgraff, 69, of Duluth and formerly of Holyoke, died Feb. 28. Celebration of Life: 1-4 p.m. Saturday, May 29 in the Silverbrook Town Hall in Wrenshall. Arrangements by Atkins-Northland Funeral Home, Cloquet....
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College in Cloquet conferred associate degrees and diplomas on the 157 students from its class of 2021 during a virtual commencement ceremony May 13. College president Stephanie Hammitt held out hope that it will be the last ceremony of its type in a while. "We find ourselves once again celebrating apart and virtually, rather than together," she said. "But our enthusiasm and happiness for your accomplishments is not diminished." The 2020 Student of the Year, Hope...
My son Truman came home last week talking about his class at Wrenshall riding bikes during Derek Duncan’s gym class. “The purple bikes are the big bikes and they have hand brakes and everything.” The past two weeks a host of bikes have been used by students to practice riding skills and the basics of cycling maintenance. I called Duncan, as I was curious about the program and in awe of how he manages to corral so many children on wheels: “I think it is such a great thing to learn — it’s a life s...
I’m not usually fan of knick-knacks and I like to keep the mantle over my fireplace pretty clean but there is one statue that I allow to keep a permanent perch: “The Jonake” by Edward Knudsen. The two-inch-high wire and clay figure depicts a farmer in overalls and plaid shirt holding a sign for the Free Range Film Festival. Underneath the inscription reads: “Every year, in a big old barn, Jonake Fisher-Merritt holds a film festival. He shows dozens of local independent films over a few days at t...
The video is amazing. The reaction from Barnum High School sophomores Kate Ferrin and Ava Gran tells you all you need to know about how big a deal it was to find out last weekend that they are national champions. "We got first in nationals," Gran breathlessly says in an exhilarating reaction recorded online as news came May 8 that the team's national Business Professionals of America (BPA) project was deemed the best in the country. Days later, Gran was still in a daze. "It's crazy. It's...
Things were tight through the first couple of innings during the Carlton and Wrenshall baseball game Tuesday. That changed in the top of the third when the Bulldogs plated 12 runs and eventually coasted to a 21-2 win at Braun Park. "I thought their pitcher (Zeke Rousseau) pitched well for them at the beginning," said Carlton coach Ryan Schmidt. "I also thought our starter, Joey Solomon, did a nice job in his three innings pitched. He struck out three and just did a nice job." The offensive...
When Carlton's Abby Mitchell and Wrenshall's Brooke Kent took to the mound Tuesday night, not many people could have predicted the insane numbers the pair would put up in the strikeout department. The two combined for 35 strikeouts in a 6-1 Bulldog victory over the Wrens at Cloquet's Braun Park. "I expected Abby to be around the plate hard in practice and that hard work is paying off," said first-year Carlton coach Brent Pokornowski of his freshman pitcher. "She has worked hard in practice and t...
There is a day for most everything now – if you visit nationaltoday.com, you’ll see that today, Friday, is National Buttermilk Biscuit Day, National Dance Like a Chicken Day, National Underground America day and National Decency Day. It is also Apraxia Awareness Day. Count from 1 to 10 as fast as you can. Now switch the numbers 4 and 8 and see how fast you can count. For people with verbal apraxia, that is how it feels to talk. There is a motor mapping issue in the brain that makes exp...
A recent state ruling regarding the state's open meeting law (OML) and public meetings during the pandemic had area school districts scrambling to make sure they were following the law, and changing procedures if they weren't. The Minnesota Commissioner of Administration issued an advisory opinion on April 19, in response to The Timberjay newspaper publisher Marshall Helmberger, ruling that the St. Louis County School Board violated the state's open meeting law when at least a quorum of school board members met in person, but members of the pub...
The latest news regarding Minnesota property tax assessments was good for Enbridge and other utility companies and fairly dire for local governments, who find themselves on the hook for many years’ worth of past overpayments. Carlton County is no exception, with the total payback estimated at close to $5 million after the Minnesota Tax Court ruled that past tax assessments were too high on state utilities and pipelines. With that in mind, the Carlton County Board of Commissioners scrambled at their meeting Tuesday to formally support state l...
