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The Mangan family of Barnum is the subject of a crowdfunding campaign following a house fire July 8 that destroyed their home. Adam, Laura, and toddler Hunter Mangan’s home on Grizzly Lane in Barnum Township was a total loss and required a harrowing escape outlined in the Go Fund Me appeal. “Laura looked up to see smoke and flames coming from their home,” the narrative said. “She screamed for Adam and rushed into the house to grab little Hunter who was taking a nap in his crib. When she turned around flames had engulfed the door, so she pre...
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced Friday, July 21, that his office has charged Laci Marie Silgjord with financially exploiting a vulnerable adult. According to the news release below, Silgjord met the now-deceased 78-year-old victim through her employment as a then-Cloquet police officer. Four months after meeting the victim, Silgjord represented herself to a bank as the victim’s fiduciary, despite no legal authority for this role, and gained access to the victim’s bank accounts. After knowing the victim for approximately five...
On July 19, 2023 at 7:52 P.M., the Carlton County Sheriff’s Office received a report of an ATV crash in the 3500 Block of Pine Road in Barnum Township. A motorist came upon the crash and dialed 911. Carlton County Sheriff’s Deputies responded along with members of the Barnum Fire Department, Blackhoof Fire Department and Essentia Moose Lake EMS. According to a news release from the Sheriff's Office, the initial investigation revealed an adult male was driving an ATV northbound on Pine Road when it left the roadway and struck a tree. Paul Dou...
Paul Ward turned 90 this summer, and the story of how he landed the area's most well-known agate has changed. But only a little. Shortly after the 108-pound agate began being celebrated in Moose Lake during the early 1980s, the story went that Ward was looking for agates in a local pit when he unearthed the monster he first thought was a root. But last month, during a visit to his Sandstone, Minnesota residence by the Pine Knot, Ward recalled a different origin. He was clearing land and...
People at the Cloquet school district building, the old Garfield School, are seeking some input on how this fountain became part of a classroom at the school. The room now serves as the meeting place for the school board. Mary Marciniak, executive assistant to the superintendent, said blueprints show that the room once held kindergarteners, and stories have been passed down that it was later a science classroom. Anyone have ideas on how this nautically themed fountain came to be? Send your...
A spate of incidents late Saturday afternoon, July 8, kept emergency responders busy as they reacted to an ATV crash, vehicle crash and house fire all within a half hour of each other. The first call was just after 4 p.m. for an ATV crash in the Nemadji State Forest in Holyoke Township. Driver Amanda Kelly, 41, and Molly Jaski, 10, were riding on the Harliss Trail when the ATV lost traction in sand and ended up sliding into a tree. Both sustained injuries and were sent to a hospital. Their condition is unknown, and no charges filed. Minutes lat...
Minnesota Department of Transportation will begin constructing median crossovers on Interstate 35 near the Atkinson Bridge in Carlton County on July 17. I-35 will be reduced to one lane in each direction with temporary closures of the passing lane. Closures will be removed for weekend traffic peaks. Work is expected to be complete in early August. The Atkinson Bridge crosses Carlton County Road 61....
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture will treat one area in Carlton County and three areas in and around the city of Duluth beginning today, July 14, to slow the spread of spongy moth (aka gypsy moth). Officials will conduct aerial treatments July 14, break for the weekend to clear the sky for the Duluth Air Show, and begin again on Monday, July 17. Work will begin as early as 6:30 a.m. each morning and continue throughout the day. The treatment area in Carlton County is near Holyoke, along the Wisconsin border, totaling approximately...
Join the Carlton County Master Gardeners for the gardening event of the summer. This year will showcase six gardens in the Esko area from 4-7 p.m. Tuesday, July 18. This free event is self-guided and will continue rain or shine. Watch for signs at each Location. There are featured gardens at 31, 47, and 162 Erickson Road, 25 E. Harney Road, 190 Wagon Road and 167 Nynas Road....
The Carlton County Board of Commissioners breezed through its first meeting of July in 24 minutes Tuesday. But it managed to get work done, raising the threshold for project labor agreements while also announcing its intent to work more closely with the local tribe on matters that impact both jurisdictions. Regarding project labor agreements, county engineer JinYeene Neumann explained the decision to raise the threshold triggering a project labor agreement from $175,000 to $250,000 on county-led construction. A committee had met throughout the...
Having come through the crucible of making cuts and adopting a budget for the new school year, the Wrenshall School Board began tackling a host of open positions at its meeting in Holyoke on Monday. Currently, due to retirements, resignations and roughly $320,000 in budget cuts, the district is without a licensed boiler operator, lead custodian, head cook, school nurse, information technology specialist and a business manager in charge of the district’s budgeting. The board approved the hiring of a lead bus driver at the meeting. The d...
Work should begin on the Esko fitness center next week. The project is behind schedule by more than a fortnight, school board members heard Monday night. The permitting process was the first snag to overcome, according to John Erickson and Ian Bradshaw of DSGW Architects. They indicated the state took longer than expected to sign off on its portion, adding that the application was made in March, which allowed an extra three weeks for a study that usually takes 45 days. “The state plan review just got completed last week,” Erickson said. Loc...
If you blink your eyes, you might miss it. I know I did, many times. Traveling west on Minnesota Highway 210, it's just past the Sawyer Store, about three miles on the left. A few years ago, the wild turkeys were thick in this area. Unfortunately, I hit one with my car, twisting my side mirror. I pulled to the side of the road to check out the damage and it was then that I saw the sign advertising "Bedding Plants," "Greenhouse," and, even better yet, "Sale." My wife, dog, and I were in no rush...
Our Teen Services librarian, Justin Dinger, first hosted Space Camp in 2019. He saw a solicitation from NASA seeking sites to host summer classes for middle- and high school students. As a kid, Justin’s dream was to become an astronaut. He states that his math skills are not the best, so he settled for the second-best job in the world as a librarian. That first year, Justin traveled to Ohio for training and to meet some of the scientists and engineers working on real-world NASA projects. This y...
The highway is now closed between Cromwell Lake and Island Lake, and should be finished by July 26. There is a detour to the north and the south, so watch for signs. Work on the box culverts on Woodbury Lake and the one over the river in Wright will then start on July 31 and last for 31 days. Remember, the 58th annual Wrong Days in Wright starts today, July 14, with the steak fry, pie sale, St. John’s rummage sale, and O-G-N-I-B (“bingo” spelled backwards). The parade is at 10:30 a.m. Saturday,...
The next Finnish Luncheon is at noon on Wednesday, July 19 at the Kettle River Senior Center. 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 from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The police and fire department will have things for the kids. There may even be rides on the firetruck. So, mark your calendars and come out and visit with neighbors and friends. Tickets for the American Legion rifle drawing are available from Legion members. The drawing is Friday, Nov....
With July Fourth behind them, many Carlton County communities now turn toward their own unique celebrations of summer. Those festivals launch this weekend with Moose Lake celebrating Agate Days Saturday and Sunday, July 15-16, plus three days of Wrong Days in Wright kicking off today. Agate Days Saturday is the big day in Moose Lake, and the Clark-Olsen Agate Stampede at 3 p.m. is always a treat. People of all ages line up on both sides of Elm Avenue and wait for two dump trucks to drive two blocks while dropping all kinds of rocks and gravel,...
It was the Cloquet Fourth of July redemption tour, after being diminished by the pandemic, then kicked in the knees by Mother Nature last year. No more, said the people, in spite of a little afternoon rain. They came out in droves. Runners and walkers headed to Pinehurst Park for the Sawdust 5K and then a 1-mile race down the parade route. People of all ages lined Cloquet Avenue for the annual July Fourth parade, several rows deep in places, kids with bags and buckets ready to be filled with...
Born in western Cloquet, Vern Simula wants to return to his home county when it's his time to go. He's already made a burial shroud and developed an advanced funeral directive on how he wants to be buried. Until recently, the 90-year-old living in Morris, Minnesota, had chosen a proposed green burial cemetery in Blackhoof Township, near Barnum, where wary residents and local and state lawmakers have cooperated to put a halt to the cemetery's progress. "I want a simple, traditional burial," said...
The Carlton County Historical Society shared this fascinating picture of the Fourth of July parade in Cloquet in 1905, which includes the old Pine Knot newspaper office. With the St. Louis River highlands in the background, we can assume this photo is looking north. Or is it west? The mystery is where exactly is this? Is it the road into Dunlap Island? Arch Street? We looked for old Pine Knot addresses but came up empty for 1905. Where do you think this is – a toughie given the fire that o...
Joe and Amanda Lambert grew up on farms less than a mile apart in rural Mahtowa. In 2010, the couple bought part of Amanda's family farm as a place to live. In 2015, they bought Joe's grandparents' farmstead near Barnum and started their own chapter in a long farming history: Happy Critters Farm, focussed on producing sustainable food for the local economy. This year, the farm and family has been honored by the University of Minnesota and Carlton County Extension office in the "Farm Family Recog...
Nominations are open for the 2023 Outstanding Senior Citizen awards, which are given annually to both a man and a woman age 70 or older. Nomination forms are available online at www.co.carlton.mn.us and ask for details of what the person has done for others in your organization or community after reaching age of 60. Feel free to discuss the application with the nominee to collect the requested volunteer activity information. Send the information to the Barnum Area Senior Citizens, 3794 Main St., Barnum MN 55707, by July 14. If you have any...
The Wrenshall School Board approved a $4.95 million budget for the 2023-24 school year during a special meeting June 26. Coupled with expected revenues of $5 million, the budget comes with a surplus of $48,272, and follows $312,000 in cuts earlier this year in anticipation of an ongoing shortfall if cuts weren’t made. The board had sought to build a $100,000 surplus, and could still get there given a higher enrollment. “It’s looking pretty good,” board chair Nicole Krisak told the Pine Knot. The budget was based on enrollment of 325 student...
Construction work on Highway 210 east of Cromwell at Island Lake began July 5. This work will require a full closure of Highway 210. The passenger vehicle detour route will take Carlton County Road 120 to Carlton County Road 123 to Highway 73. A truck detour will take I-35 to Carlton County Road 4 to Highway 73. A detour map can be found on the project website here: http://www.dot.state.mn.us/d1/projects/hwy210-boxculvertsreplacements/index.html. Once work is complete at this location, work will move west on Highway 210 for another full...
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources lifted burning restrictions in Carlton, Cook, Lake, and St. Louis counties, effective July 3. Recent rain has reduced, although not eliminated, wildfire risk in northeast Minnesota. This action lifts restrictions on fireworks ignited on any public or private land outside city limits, campfires and burning permits for brush or yard waste....
