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Larry Slater shot this 10-point, 210-pound buck in Carlton County Nov. 14 while hunting in the Mahtowa area, where his family and friends have hunted for decades. Share your Big Buck photos and relevant details, along with your favorite way of cooking venison at [email protected]. Contributed photo...
Kiana Bender, Dea DeLeon and Taylor Nelson may attend different local high schools, but the trio have at least two things in common. The first is that all three play hockey for the Cloquet-Esko-Carlton Lumberjack girls hockey team. The second is the fact that all three signed National Letters of Intent this past week to play sports in college. Bender and DeLeon will play softball at UMD and Nelson will play Division I hockey at Bemidji State. "I wanted to stay close to home and UMD was also the...
In my 17 years of living, I’ve had a hard time finding anything that interests me for very long. School, boring. Reading, boring. Waterparks, boring. Shopping, boring. Hikes, boring. Watching movies, boring. Someone shooting an off-balance, 25-foot shot before it splashes into the net or sprinting 20 miles an hour, jumping up and extending their body to catch a ball by their fingertips as they come crashing to the ground, somehow managing to hang onto the ball — now, that’s something I can get into. Sports has always fascinated me. Ever since...
Wrenshall coach Jeremy Zywicki was recently named coach of the year for the 9 Man North White district of the Minnesota State High School Football League for his work this year with the new Carlton/Wrenshall Raptors. This honor prompted me to check in with Coach Zywicki and co-coach Jason Crane. The two led the team to an 8-0 record in the regular season. According to Zywicki, the accomplishment is due in large part to the positive, hard-working students who made the dream of this season a...
Theresa and Connie Wappes get ready to ship seven boxes recently. The "Boxes of Joy" project at Queen of Peace Catholic Church filled over 111 boxes of toys and gifts for children in need across the world. The annual Christmas gift ministry is organized by local Catholic schools, parishes and groups across the United States and facilitated by Cross Catholic Outreach. The boxes will go to Haiti, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic. The boxes were filled for boys and...
The folks at Aspen Arms celebrated Veterans Day with a visit from members of the Cloquet Combined Honor Guard, who conducted formal ceremonies and later joined many of the veterans and residents who live in the Cloquet apartment building for coffee and donuts. Above right, Honor Guard members begin the process of folding the flag by opening it, while DAV auxiliary member Loralee Prouty explains the symbolism behind every fold. Top left, Army veteran Scott Sutherland explains the meaning behind t...
Autumn Voices is looking for retired men and women who like to sing. The group began in 1976, and continues today with people who love to sing. Practice is every Monday 10-11 a.m. at the Senior dining center in Moose Lake. They have nine gigs in December, presenting songs from every generation wherever they are asked to go, at senior living facilities, community events and more. They particularly need tenor and bass singers, but all singers are welcome to this fun volunteer group. Want to know more? Call Kent Matthews at 218-565-0080 or Rita...
First, you experience great surprise, and then awe, as you see a child springing into the air, turning, flipping, and landing on their feet. Next, an involuntary "Wow!" springs from your own throat. Finally, you see how much fun these kids are having, and how happy they are to be doing gymnastics with their friends. Mary Lee Jensen, known as just "Mary Lee" to those familiar with local gymnastics, has been touching the lives of area kids and parents for 60 years. And yes, she started her...
When Jack Thornton carried his wife Joyce over the threshold of their new home on Jan. 23, 1955, the newlyweds weren’t alone. A thousand people stood outside and cheered as they entered the two-bedroom, pre-fab house at 109 7th St. in Cloquet. It had been this way for a while, ever since the previous August when a story about the blind couple flashed on newswires and landed in every newspaper across the country. “We were well-known,” Joyce coyly said of all the attention. The new home was a gif...
Cloquet High School grads Riley Into and Landon Langenbrunner are aiming to make it big in the music world, but they aren't taking what many consider the traditional route. They aren't playing bars or or college campuses or even raves - yet. In fact, the two musicians didn't even start by learning an instrument. That came later. "We picked up on instruments after the fact, more or less," said Into. "It was our love for the music that got us into this. Langenbrunner agreed, adding that they...
Photography was one way Cloquet area resident Mark Cline dealt with an enormous personal setback. As a 55-year-old married father, he received his first serious DSLR camera in 2007, shortly before his wife was killed in a gas explosion at their cabin. After three years of nursing his kids back to health, his corporate head hunting business never recovered. Two years ago, he moved here to be close to Lake Superior. When Cline found he could leave his boys for a while, he began walking his rural...
Fond du Lac Band member Vern Northrup began photographing during his work as a Bureau of Indian Affairs wildland fire operations specialist working on Native lands across the U.S. “When I was a firefighter,” he reflected during a conversation with me last week, “we carried everything on our backs. Real cameras were heavy, so we would buy disposable cameras to document our work and its challenges. I fought fire for 26-27 years. I managed fires, managed aircraft, engines and crews, inclu...
Dave Hanlon was succinct. "Its just a stupid amount of carrots." That's how Hanlon, from the Food Farm in Wrenshall, describes our record-breaking harvest this fall. In the last two weeks we've pulled more than 75,000 pounds of carrots out of the ground, all despite what farmer Janaki Fisher-Merritt describes as "challenging conditions." A dry summer sandwiched between a wet spring and fall made for difficult harvest weather. But the outcome was by far the best we've ever experienced for the...
Words are sparse in Cloquet native Jessica Lange's latest book of photography, simply titled "Highway 61" and featuring photographs taken along the highway from the North Shore to New Orleans. "I have a long history with Highway 61," Lange wrote in the back of the book. "I was born in a small town along that road in northern Minnesota, as were my parents and sisters. Most of my family - grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins - were born, raised, married, and died in towns on that same stretch....
Before the dawn of the Interstate Highway System, the federal government invested in paved roads that traversed the continental United States, coast to coast, north to south. Some of these roads - such as Route 66 - have received acclaim through stories, songs, and televised series. Others faded into the background as interstate highways bypassed the small towns and farms to move people and goods with greater speed and efficiency. Last October, my husband and I were returning from a road trip...
We find ourselves a year away from the presidential elections but already the lines of division are having a strong effect on the American society. Here are just a couple examples of what I have seen that defy the ideals we hope to exhibit here in the United States, and even defy the teachings of the Christian faith I belong to. We have seen where fellow citizens are refusing service to other citizens because of their political associations. The internet that so many of us utilize each day has...
Editor's note: Lauren Soukkala, age 10, of Barnum submitted this frightening and fun tale of a Halloween gone weird to the Pine Knot News. We typed up the story mostly as submitted - adding a little punctuation here and there. Lauren, right, sent her work on a blood red piece of paper with a drawing to accompany the story. Creatively enough, the red paper made the art difficult to reproduce here. Once upon a time it was one day before Halloween and everybody was carving pumpkins because they...
One of my favorite vintage jazz songs is “All the Things You Are,” Jerome Kern’s 1939 composition with Oscar Hammerstein’s lyrics. It floats down the keyboard: B-flat, E-flat, A-flat, G7 — challenging for a piano player. It was on my mind last week while I was exploring our region with our two grandkids, 4-year-old Lou and 2-year-old Mosey, and their parents. The first afternoon, we climbed all over Cromwell’s Kaleb Anderson playground, four adults trying to keep up with the ecstatic Lou and coaxing Mosey to try the steeper slides. Once school...
The voice is deep, rich, and weathered. The hands may show some age, but they glide over the strings of the old Gibson guitar effortlessly, like they have maybe a million times before. Don Brown is not the same young man who first graced a noisy barroom stage in Cloquet nearly six decades ago, but his country music remains much the same. Brown started "playing out" with a friend about 1961. "I think the first place we played was down on Dunlap Island in Cloquet, at a little place on the corner...
Cloquet High School senior Sydney Hall is a typical student in most aspects of life besides one - fashion. Fashion has been a focus of Sydney's since she was little. At some point, planning cute outfits took priority over homework, to her teachers' dismay. This habit evolved over the years to a full-fledged passion for fashion. Going into her senior year at Cloquet High School, Sydney was talking to her hairstylist uncle, Jason Backe, who told her he was going to New York Fashion Week. Sydney's...
When Esko football player Jackson Pfister collapsed during a varsity game last week and died of heart failure, it shocked and saddened people across the school district, the township, nearby towns and neighboring schools. The messages flooded out across social media, on the phone and face-to-face within hours, offering prayers to his family - parents Matt and Brooke, younger brother Nolan - support to the team, and counseling for the students. The grief over Jackson brought people together....
Remember when the Ben Franklin store was located at the corner of Cloquet Avenue and 11th Street? More recently, a Goodwill store drew shoppers there until its closure in December 2018. The newly renovated building is now home to Paradigm Therapy Services, which celebrated its grand opening with the law offices of Terri Port Wright and Matthew Miller on Sept. 20. Photo contributed by the Carlton County Historical Society...
Mary Alice Carlson of Mahtowa has compiled a series of her most memorable stories in “Under the Pine Boughs — Short Stories of Homespun Living.” Carlson will hold her first book signing at the Carlton County Senior Health Fair on Nov. 2, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at St. Matthews Lutheran Church in Esko. Carlson has been a featured writer in The Senior Reporter with her personal memoirs for over 10 years. During that time she has won multiple national Awards of Achievement from the North American Mature Publishers Association. The book contains...
For decades, the name Butch Newby was synonymous with Cloquet Country Club championship golf. I had the privilege of recently catching up with Butch while being joined in the phone conversation by Bill Manahan, the manager-pro at the club, and Dick Brenner, longtime CCC member and community activist. Butch's given name was Harry Newby, Jr., but he has been known as "Butch" ever since he can remember. He was a very successful attorney in Cloquet and Carlton County, sharing an office for many...
Holly Compo was recognized in September by the Minnesota Sheriffs’ Association as Correctional Nurse of the Year. She was chosen from candidates recommended by jail administrators and sheriffs across the state. Compo was presented her award by Carlton County sheriff Kelly Lake at the annual Jail Administrators Conference in Baxter. Compo is a lifelong Carlton County resident and has been employed as a public health nurse in the county since graduating from the College of St. Scholastica nursing...
