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The Cloquet Forestry Center at 175 University Road, Cloquet, is the site for the latest “story strolls” sponsored by the Cloquet Public Library on Saturday, Aug. 28. Enjoy two story strolls: “The Forever Sky” by Thomas Peacock and “Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story” by Kevin Noble Maillard along the 1.1-mile Yellow Loop from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Peacock and Betsy Albert-Peacock also will share storytelling from 10:30-11 a.m. at the Pavilion. The library is also giving away a free book while supplies last....
After a slow start to the Carlton County Fair on a hot Thursday, attendance numbers rose as the temperatures dropped. "It was absolutely full on Saturday," said fair manager Lindsey Larson. "We thought we were going to run out of parking. Vendors ran out of food, the midway (people) said they did awesome. When we looked out the window of the office, it was hectic." She wasn't exaggerating. The back parking lot was nearly full by noon Saturday and fairgoers had to take a long walk to get to the r...
The Farmers Cooperative board of directors welcomed Doreen Warner to the board Aug. 17 at its reorganization meeting. They say a fond farewell to Scott Ferry for his years on the board and thank him for his dedication to our store. The next regular meeting is Sept. 21. Community yoga meets 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Monday, Aug. 30 at the pavilion. There is no session Sept. 6. Yoga resumes Sept. 13. Cost: $3, gear provided. Questions, call Ann Markusen 218-428-3300. Our sympathy to family and friends of...
The heat is finally breaking this late Friday afternoon on another 90-something degree day in Carlton County. The dry, hot summer has the poplars yielding, yet it still seems far too early for downed yellow leaves to be dancing along the roadsides on a drive to a barn in rural Wrenshall. A persistent wind has kept the day from being totally oppressive, and it is quite pleasant on the grounds of the Free Range Film Festival a few hours before the first of two 7 p.m. showings of short films last...
After being canceled last year due to Covid-19, the Carlton County fair is back, running Thursday through Sunday, Aug. 19-22. There are many different activities and sights for locals to enjoy, including the various animal shows, different types of auto racing, horseracing, live performances and so much more. The gate fee is $8, ages 6-11 get in for $3, and children age 5 and under enter for free. Saturday is military day. Any military veteran and spouse get in for free. "It's exciting to have...
The annual Christian music festival made its comeback after missing 2020 due to Covid and had a good day, according to organizers, although attendance was down somewhat. Like many things after the pandemic, the Christian music festival was changed. No. 1, it was renamed the Wood City Worship Festival. Lee Harris, who helps lead the Kingdom Builders Ministry that puts on the annual festival, said they hit the reset button during the pandemic, both for the Common Ground Coffee Bar & Deli in...
Although summer is winding down, we can still enjoy the warm temperatures and our favorite ice cream treat. I thought back to when I was a kid and my mom would buy one pint of ice cream from Bystrom's Grocery on the corner of Highway 33 and Freeman Road in Sunnyside. That pint of vanilla ice cream would be divided into five slices and served on homemade apple pie or cantaloupe for a Sunday evening treat for my family. In those days we bought ice cream in small amounts because the freezer...
The Carlton County Fair is this weekend and I am still looking for volunteers to work at the Little Red School through Aug. 22. Call me at 218-357-2385 if you can spare a couple of hours volunteering. Stop by the Pine Knot News exhibit at the fair, Aug. 19-22. Ann Markusen and Jennie Hanson are regular contributors to the weekly editions. Pick up a free copy of the paper and consider subscribing. Reino "Ray" Walli, 91, the youngest of Jacob and Sophia Walli's 12 children, passed away on Aug. 5....
Carlton County fair manager Lindsey Larson is excited to bring back the fair after it was canceled due to the pandemic last year. They are taking some pandemic precautions, she said, including more hand washing stations. Masks are optional so far. Despite taking over in 2020, this will be Larson's first fair....
People gathered to celebrate Ma and Pa Kettle Days last weekend in Kettle River....
The University of Minnesota Cloquet Forestry Center is holding an "open house" - actually a 1.5-mile self-guided walking tour - from 4-7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 25 at 175 University Road. Staff will be on site 4-7 p.m. to provide tour materials and answer visitor questions. Can't make it on the 25th? No worries. The self-guided walking tour is available through September. Visitors who make it to eight of 12 tour sites will be eligible for raffle prizes at the end of September. Find a map of the...
Honor the Earth and its production partners, First Avenue and The Current, are holding their first “Water Is Life: Stop Line 3” music, art and cultural festival Aug. 18, at Bayfront Park in Duluth. For many artists like Bon Iver and Hippo Campus, the festival marks their first post-covid concert performances before they resume regular touring next month. Advance tickets are $65 and the music starts at noon. Find out more on Page 24 of this week’s Pine Knot or visit www.honorearth.org. for a complete schedule of artists and other resou...
Carlton's South Terrace Elementary hosted the popular Summer Learning Camp in the first week of August. The 36 elementary school-aged students displayed "great curiosity and enthusiasm while learning about this year's theme: Flight and Outer Space," said camp director Sam Kavanaugh, a Carlton graduate, Twin Cities area teacher, and recent Jeopardy! Game show champion. Among a variety of activities, campers designed flying machines, made models of the solar system and earth's atmosphere, and...
Hot-rodders and other car enthusiasts had a good run last week, with two car shows in two days within a 15-minute drive of Cloquet. First up was the Smalley-Moen Memorial car show at Buffalo House on Wednesday. Cars were parked on the softball field and around the expansive grounds of the popular destination restaurant and activity center. On Thursday, Gordy's Hi-Hat held its Curbside Classic despite foreboding clouds and eventually rain. The weather didn't seem to bother most of the car owners...
The opera is coming to the shores of Lac La Belle Tuesday, Aug. 17. The Lyric Opera of the North, or LOON, as it is lovingly called, will be presenting its Summer Sparkler event in person on the grounds of the Historic Scott House. When the artists take the stage, it will have been 585 days since the company performed in front of a live audience, and artistic director Sarah Lawrence admits, “I’ve had lots of tears. To be singing again, and doing it collaboratively with other people, it just fee...
The Extreme Team youth group had a very successful car wash last weekend. We have to give these kids and their adult leaders a lot of credit for earning their way to the ELCA national youth convention next summer in Minneapolis. They will need to earn about $18,000 for the group to attend and they are only partway to meeting this goal. The family of Mary Purcell had an informal celebration of life gathering for her Aug. 6 at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Wright. There were five beautifully done...
On the evenings of Aug. 20-21, the Dugan and Fisher- Merritt clan will again host the Free Range Film Festival at their heritage barn in Wrenshall. Screening the films ahead of time, I’ve marveled and enjoyed the range of offerings, short to long, reflective to performative. Beginning at 7 p.m. Friday, the first evening’s 15 films — some short, some longer — offer us personality profiles, small and exceptional spaces and impressionistic journeys, as well as adventurers and competitors in action....
The rain held off long enough Saturday to allow folks to enjoy the Brickyard Days parade, then Mother Nature delivered some much needed moisture to Carlton County's growing agricultural center. The parade lasted about 40 minutes, and featured everything from firetrucks to the Carlton Honor Guard and Raptors cheerleaders, to an accordion-playing skateboarder from Finland named Steve Solkela. Eldon and Karen Grover were grand marshals, riding in a red convertible through the center of town with...
Things were buzzing at the Honey Bee Festival Friday, in a mellow laid back kind of way. Icon Man husband-and-wife duo Mothy and Diane Soden-Groves played for an audience in lawn chairs from the porch of the Oldenburg House, while other activities, events and commerce spread out across the grounds of the 125-year-old historic home. It was all about the bees, with honey-infused food and drink and bee-inspired arts and crafts, along with information galore to support pollinators, and plenty of...
Get your party on, Carlton County, this weekend is packed with community festivals. Esko got a head start on the weekend with Esko Fun Days kicking off earlier in the week. Still to come is fun at the football field on Friday, featuring a cornhole tournament starting at 6 p.m. Saturday is the grand finale of all the fun, with a 5K race at 8 a.m., an 11 a.m. parade, games in the park starting at 11:30 a.m. and a grass volleyball tournament starting at 2 p.m. The street dance that evening starts...
The Arrowhead Library System and the Friends of the Minnesota Orchestra are providing “Kinder Konzerts in a Bag” kits to member public libraries this month. The kits, developed by the Friends of the Minnesota Orchestra, contain everything needed for kids and caregivers to create a musical storytelling experience at home. The kits feature the book, “One-Dog Canoe,” written by award-winning Minnesota author Mary Casanova and illustrated by Ard Hoyt. These kits are geared towards kids ages 3-6 and...
The Carlton County Fair is fast approaching and I am looking for volunteers to work at the Little Red School Aug. 19-22 Please call me at 808-366-6582 or 218-357-2385 if you can spare a couple of hours volunteering. The Extreme Team will be holding a car wash at the fire department in Cromwell 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 7. Freewill donation. Word has it that Hey Day in Tamarack is Aug. 7. Activities include the marathon at 10 a.m., parade at 11 a.m., kids’ carnival games 12-2 p.m., t...
Although August is just around the corner, the summer festival season isn't slowing down. Carlton County will be bustling with activity for the next week-and-a-half with Esko Fun Days, the Honey Bee Festival, Wrenshall Brickyard Days, and Ma & Pa Kettle Days all coming back after last year's Covid cancellations. The Honey Bee Festival returns to the Oldenburg House in Carlton next Friday and Saturday, August 6 and 7. Oldenburg House proprietor Glenn Swanson is eager for the festival to resume. "...
The National Night Out will take place at the Cromwell Park pavilion, 5:30 to 7 on Tuesday, Aug. 3. Hot dogs will be served. Congratulations to Cromwell Area Sings winners Pearl Schulte of Wright, who placed tops in the age 20-and-over category, and Aurora Gervais and Zachary Kabus, who placed first and second, respectively, in the 12-19 age group. The competition was held during Wrong Days in Wright at the Big Top. They are eligible to participate in the Minnesota Sings competition in October....
Where there's smoke, there's fire ... unless you happen to be a firefighter in training. For a couple weeks now, firefighters from the Cloquet Area Fire District have been putting on their gear and driving various fire trucks and emergency vehicles to Dunlap Island to practice on a real building that they will burn in their final practice sometime in August. It's a two-story wooden building with a long history -- as a bar, a boarding house and more -- but in recent years it's simply been an...
