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Friday 12 p.m.-5 p.m. Carlton Public Library Book Sale at the Carlton City Hall and Library, 310 Chestnut Avenue. 4 p.m.-6:45 p.m. 5K registration and preregistered packet pick-up at the Four Seasons Sports Complex. 5K registration at https://carltonchamber.com/carlton-daze/ or https://www.tempotickets.com/Carltondaze5k-23 4 p.m.-8 p.m. Bingo at the VFW, and Carlton VFW Auxiliary party wagon & VFW gun raffle ticket sales. 6 p.m. Kids’ Fun Races for ages 2 to 5 years and 6 to 8 years. Sign up at Four Seasons, 4 to 5:45 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Softball T...
Leave the mosquitoes outside and come to the Moose Lake Community School auditorium to hear some great symphonic music for free. Agate Encores Community Concerts is offering a free concert by the Duluth-based Northshore Philharmonic Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 25. Under the baton of conductor Tracey Gibbens, the concert includes music by Jean Sibelius, Franz Berwald, and Antonín Dvořák. Dr. Betsy Husby, principal cellist with the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra, is the soloist. The orchestra is made up of people united by their lo...
The 2023 Carlton County Garden Tour featured five Esko properties plus the Esko Community Garden on Tuesday evening, July 18. This year's tour stops included decades-long established gardens, works in progress, family heirloom plants, ponds and water elements, vegetable plots, berry plants, and whimsical characters populating yards and gardens. One of the featured tour stop hosts estimated nearly 300 visitors stopped by to view landscaping and garden projects during the three-hour event. The...
The most interesting portion of the Agate Stampede in Moose Lake Saturday was all the pregame talk along Elm Street about strategy. Some vow to wait back and snatch the loot others miss after the two dump trucks unload their haul of rocks along the two, long, people-packed, blocks of the downtown street. Some get ready to dash right in, water bottle in hand to better discern the precious rocks from the ordinary. There are all levels of bucket sophistication (some with built-in sifters) and...
The Over the Hill Rangers band - Mick Heaser, Digger DeRusha, Davey Jokimaki, Ron Jokimaki - entertained in the park in Wright Saturday afternoon as adults caught up with each other in pockets of conversation, children lingered on the playground, and people watched softball and volleyball games. How do you know it's Wrong Days in Wright? The softball rules. You ran to third base on a hit, you ran home from first base to score. It seemed the volleyball play was conventional. Both tournaments...
Carlton has seen many celebrations over the years. As a kid visiting my aunt, uncle and cousins in Carlton, I remember a big celebration with a big carnival in the area where the N.P. Junction Pavilion is now located. It was an exciting weekend for a kid from the country. The community has always been supportive of the Carlton celebrations. This year the Carlton Daze Celebration will be held July 28-30. I checked at the Carlton County Historical Society in Cloquet to see if they had any...
The 58th Wrong Days in Wright was well-attended last weekend, from the steak fry, pie sale, rummage sale, and bingo on Friday to the Saturday morning parade and button drawing and then sporting events and music into the night. There will be a pop-up craft shop in Cromwell 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 20 at Cardinal Chiropractic Center. Shop and support our area artists and crafters. To be a vendor, email [email protected]. My cancer journey is now well into three months of chemo treatments and other medical procedures. Now I am being...
National Night Out in Kettle River is Tuesday, Aug. 1 at the Kettle River Senior Center. The fun begins with supper of hamburgers and hot dogs at 5 p.m. The police and fire department will have activities for the kids. There may even be rides on a firetruck. So, mark your calendars and come out and visit with neighbors and friends. The Kettle River city council meeting is 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 8 at the Kettle River senior center. Ma & Pa Kettle Days is Saturday, Aug. 12. Mark and Tina Tollgaard are Ma & Pa Kettle, and Sam Huhta is the grand...
Native Americans serve in the U.S. military at five times the national average, according to the United Service Organizations. Pride in that service was on display throughout the Fond du Lac Veterans Powwow last weekend, with military uniforms and camouflage interspersed with a dazzling display of traditional regalia worn by 476 dancers competing in the powwow. Drummers pounded out the Veterans Song, while flags from every military branch, eagle staffs from various reservations, and families...
The Carlton community is beginning to buzz with excitement as plans are being finalized for the annual community celebration. Circle July 28-29-30 on your calendar and come out to gather with family and friends for fun, food and live music for Carlton Daze at the Carlton VFW and the Third Base Bar. Don’t forget the parade at 1 p.m. Sunday, July 30. Live music will be provided by Stranded on July 28 and by Vinyl Recliner on July 29. Veterans interested in joining Carlton VFW Post 2962 and/or t...
The CHS Pep Squad team is bringing back JR Cheer Camp. Run through Community Ed, the camp is open to students who have completed kindergarten to Grade 4 in May 2023 and costs $40. The CHS Pep Squad team and coaches will teach the Cloquet School Song and a few Lumberjack cheers to participants, who will show off their skills to the community in the Labor Day Parade on Sept. 4. Practice dates are August 23, 24, 30 & 31 from 3:30-5 p.m....
Jen Pelofske and Jay Marvel built a boat plied with Pine Knot News newspapers for the annual "Build Your Own Boat Race" at the Pequaywan Inn north of Duluth. Jen reported it was seaworthy as couples raced on Pequaywan Lake on July 1. "You were front and center on the River Queen," Jen told us. It was apropos that some of the newspapers had the "Rolling on the river" headline. Indeed....
Movies in the Park: Friday, July 7 9:05 p.m. “Inside Out” After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions — characters Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness — conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school. PG Friday, July 28, 8:45 p.m. “The Labyrinth” Sixteen-year-old Sarah is given 13 hours to solve a labyrinth and rescue her baby brother Toby when her wish for him to be taken away is granted by the Goblin King Jareth, played by David Bowie (1986). PG Friday, Aug. 11, 8:25 p.m. ...
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College announced its lineup for the 2023 Hot Summer Nights Concert Series. The series includes four weeks of free performances in the college amphitheater starting Thursday, July 13, with Minnesota-based folk-rock and progressive rock band Lehto & Wright, a news release said. Concerts will take place at 7 p.m. Thursdays through Aug. 3. The Cloquet Community Band will also return for a performance starting at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, July 31. All concerts will be...
The Kaleb Anderson walk and pancake breakfast at the Cromwell Pavilion on July 1 was a huge success.Thanks go out to all who donated time and money, walkers and runners, and the city for having the space to hold such a huge event. They say one person can’t make a difference, but Kaleb sure did in his short lifetime. Thank you, Anderson/Koivisto family, for keeping his memory alive. A lovely memorial service was held for Elouise Lucking on July 1. Elouise was a wonderful artist and several of h...
What a Fourth of July it was! Crowds of people lined Cloquet Avenue rows deep in the morning as an unmissable military flyover kicked off the parade. They stood hands on hearts while the Cloquet Area Honor Guard passed, gasped at live wrestling on a trailer and tapped their toes to the live music. Children waited eagerly for more candy, scrambling to grab every last piece. Then it was on to Veterans Park. There they found wiffleball, tiny train rides, inflatables, face painting, magic, balloons...
After last year’s miserable weather, Fourth of July organizers in Cloquet have been busy refreshing the weather app on their phones. On Tuesday night — a week before the big day — the iPhone weather app predicted perfect Minnesota summer weather: partly sunny, temperatures in the upper 70s. The next morning the same weather app showed a 50-percent chance of rain on July 4. Nine hours later the forecast was back to no rain and a high of 81 degrees. Other than the weather, all the various event...
School patrol students from Esko and Cloquet's Washington and Churchill elementary schools enjoyed pizza, pop and patriotism this spring at the annual party hosted by the Cloquet VFW and its auxiliary. VFW members showed students how a flag is properly folded and the meaning behind it. Placemats at tables kept the 45 fourth- and fifth-grade students busy, where a poppy, certificate of appreciation and a gold dollar coin were also placed. There were 20 pizzas to enjoy, under the delighted watch...
Cloquet students were prepped on Memorial Day this year, courtesy of the American Legion Auxiliary. Churchill third-grade student Makayla Saarland, left, and fourth-grade student Autumn Prachar receive coloring books on the story of the poppy, presented by auxiliary president Penny Buran. Washington Elementary School also received the books. At Cloquet Middle School, copies of "Our Country's Flag" comic books were presented....
If you would like to be a food or merchandise vendor at Ma & Pa Kettle Days on Saturday, Aug. 12, send your name, address, phone number and type of product you have to me at P.O. Box 175, Kettle River MN 55757. Thank you to all the volunteers who set up the library book sale, all the volunteers who helped during the sale and all the volunteers who helped clean up after the sale. A special thanks to all who donated books for the sale and all those who purchased books and were so generous with their donations. One day while my father was in...
A Celebration of Life service for Ralph Reed Abrahamson, 73, of Brooklyn Center, formerly of Cromwell, will be at 4:30 p.m. on July 21 at the Cora McCorvey Health & Wellness Center, 1015 N 4th Ave, Minneapolis with food and refreshments following at Elsie’s. All area residents are invited and encouraged to continue to share their thoughts and ideas on the Harvest Festival. They are also in need of volunteers to help with parade planning, steak fry, kids’ and adult games, pie social, bingo and...
Things were busy last Friday and Saturday night at the Free Range Film Festival in rural Wrenshall. The act of watching a series of short films inside a barn built more than 100 years ago continued to draw people from the region and from the Twin Cities area. Both nights saw a standing-room-only crowd. Aside from the whimsy, there is also real value. A $10 donation was a suggestion only, and drinks and movie snacks were only $2 and $1, like way, way, way back in the day. Sandy and Betsy Dugan...
While the drought is taking its toll on lawns, frequent irrigation is keeping the berry plants at Spectrum Farm Strawberries healthy. There are plenty of flowers offering a hint of a good crop. Farm operator Steve Schulstrom anticipates that picking will not begin until July....
The Esko Historical Society announced summer hours for the Esko Museum (12 W. Highway 61) this week. The museum will be open from 2-5 p.m. on Sundays throughout July and August. Admission is free and donations are accepted. A historical society meeting will be 4 p.m. July 20 at Thomson Township Hall (25 Harney Road). Visitors are encouraged to attend....
Again this year, the Dugan family and friends host two nights of films in their Wrenshall barn. I’ve been enjoying this year’s slate of films on my computer. I can’t review them all in this slim column, but I’m sharing my favorites. The most spectacular is “Finding Her Beat,” a film made by Japanese, Canadian and American women learning and performing Taiko, a Japanese male art form that combines dance movements with banging a large vertical drum. The film opens with a Korean adoptee rai...
