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The sepia-toned photographs, slightly larger than a business card, tumble out of a browning, mottled envelope. For what is known of the six photos, and also what is enticingly unknown, the sight of them is breathtaking. Keiko Satomi punctuates the moment. "It's just," she pauses. "It has a weight." From what can be pieced together across nearly eight decades, the photographs were found on the bodies of dead Japanese soldiers during a Pacific Theater battle in World War II. There are pictures of...
In the world of composting and recycling, small steps add up. But it does require an extra step or two in the process. For Magnolia Café owner Yvette Maijala, making her Carlton business more sustainable is worth the extra work. Three years ago, she reached out to Karola Dalen, resource and recycling coordinator for Carlton County Zoning and Environmental Services. Dalen and her staff conducted a waste assessment report to help Magnolia with sustainability and recycling. Many of the practices...
Walking east from the little house I grew up in on Chestnut and Avenue C, the first thing I saw heading out the door across Chestnut was a tennis court, plus a huge lawn leading up to the Northwest Paper Company staff house on Park Place. It was the 1950s, and a childhood friend said it perfectly: "How pretty the street was from Chestnut Street to the movie theater ... just walking along. The neighborhood had such a comfortable feeling ... homes of friends, local businesses, food and recreation....
Robert Arthur Bourgeault, 78, passed away peacefully at his home, with his family by his side, on Nov. 12, 2021. Robert was born Aug. 1, 1943, in Duluth, where he was raised and attended school. In 1964, he married Janice Ann Cartier, his wife of 57 years, at St. Lawrence Catholic Church in Duluth. Robert owned and operated Blue Max Resort in Fish Lake, and later Bourgeault's Proctor Bakery in Proctor until 1996. Robert then worked for Economy Garages until retiring in 2005. In his retirement, R...
Madaline Katherine Saeland, 87, died Nov. 16, 2021 at Golden Horizons in Aitkin. She was born May 5, 1934 in Richmond Hill, New York to Charles A. and Madaline H. (Brown) Frankhauser. She graduated from St. Agnes Academic High School in Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York, and then Delehanty Business College, Jamaica, New York. From an early age, Madaline enjoyed working. Her first job at the age of 10 was candling eggs at a local chicken farm. After business college, she worked at Special...
Bradley James Hansen, 65, of Moose Lake passed away Nov. 13, 2021 at Essentia Health Medical Center, Duluth. A memorial service for family and friends is scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 4 at Restoration Church in Rush City, Minnesota. Arrangements by Whispering Pines Funeral & Cremation Service, serving Northern Minnesota. 218-547-1112, whisperingpinesnorth.com Pine Knot News, Nov. 26, 2021...
Clinton Richard Salo, 76, of Wright passed away Nov. 10, 2021 at Villa Vista, Cromwell. A memorial service planned for next spring. Arrangements by Whispering Pines Funeral & Cremation Service, serving Northern Minnesota. 218-547-1112, whisperingpinesnorth.com Pine Knot News, Nov. 26, 2021...
Connor Dean Laine, 24 years young, of Cloquet passed away Nov. 15, 2021 at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis. He was born in Cloquet on Aug. 16, 1997, the son of Bernard and Karen (Cronic) Laine. Connor attended Carlton High School and graduated through online classes. He loved classic rock and grunge music, retro video games, anime, Japanese culture, technology and computers. Connor could fix anything pertaining to computers and was always helping people with their computer problems....
The Eskomos' hopes of moving into the state Class AAA championship next week dwindled away down the stretch of the fourth quarter at U.S. Bank Stadium Saturday afternoon. That's when Dassel-Cokato came from behind and defeated Esko 21-14 in the State Class AAA semifinals. Esko knew they would need to come out ready to play against the top-ranked team, and that is exactly what happened as the Eskomos exchanged punches with the Chargers and never backed down. They earned a lot of respect from...
Esko Scott Arntson also got a well-deserved pat on the back last week. The head coach was named "Coach of the Week" by the Minnesota Vikings, after six years of coaching Esko but 25 years as a football coach overall. Arntson enjoys coaching football because it teaches players how to overcome adversity. He also coaches track and field, math team and co-runs a summer speed, strength and agility camp. According to the Vikings website, "coaches are chosen based on their contribution on the football...
Karisa Kay Disberry, née Waltjer, 37, of Cloquet passed away Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021, in St. Luke's Hospital in Duluth. She was born on Dec. 3, 1983 in Minneapolis to Richard and Kathy Waltjer. Karisa graduated from Cloquet High School in 2001. On Nov. 11, 2011 she married Taylor Disberry in Cloquet. She worked as a certified nursing assistant at Plainview Estates. Karisa was preceded in death by her father, Richard Waltjer, and sister, Kimberly Waltjer. She will be dearly missed by her...
Hello, fellow Carlton County residents. I’m Pete Radosevich, the publisher of the Pine Knot News and an avid fan of our community. We are sending a copy of this newspaper to nearly every address in the county, so you can see what subscribers to the Pine Knot News already know — real journalism is alive and well in Carlton County, and it’s in the Pine Knot News. When five of us chipped in money to start the Pine Knot News three years ago, many people thought we were a little crazy. After all, who would start an old-fashioned newspaper in this...
Don't worry, Kids, Santa is making his way to Carlton County again. The Santa's Home for the Holidays festivities are back, thanks to the United Way of Carlton County. "The United Way is proud to support community events like Santa's Home for the Holidays. We are looking forward to a fun weekend full of holiday spirit," said United Way executive director Ali Bilden Camps. Of course, like any event during the pandemic, there were a few changes but all of the most important elements are intact....
Gerald Thomas "Jiggs" La Breche was born May 1, 1932, in Cloquet and passed away Nov. 17, 2021, in Floodwood. He was better known to his family and friends as "Jiggs." His parents were Edward and Evaline La Breche. Jiggs grew up in Cloquet, along with his two brothers and one sister. He graduated from the Catholic Sacred Heart school, the Cloquet high school and University of Minnesota Duluth. He served in the U.S. Army and played on the Army golf team. Jiggs was a high school teacher; he...
The Esko volunteer fire department has sent seven sets of turnout gear to a specialized cleaning company after a messy call on Thursday, Nov. 18. This mutual aid call involved 50-100 gallons of spilled petroleum that coated 25 sets of gear in total, chief Kyle Gustafson reported to the Thomson Township board of supervisors at its meeting Nov. 18. Carlton fire department chief Derek Wolf said five other departments were called for mutual aid for manpower and backup water supply. The fire was extinguished in just over two hours. The property...
Community transmission of Covid-19 locally and statewide has been consistently “high” since August, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And it’s not getting any better yet. Like last winter, cases are climbing as the temperatures drop. “The Delta variant doesn’t seem to play by the same rules as [the initial Covid strains],” said Carlton County public health nurse Jenny Barta, the county’s Covid-19 subject matter expert. “We’re seeing some waning of vaccine protection but it (the vaccine) is still doing a very good...
U.S. regulators on Friday opened up Covid-19 booster shots to all adults, expanding the government’s campaign to shore up protection and get ahead of rising coronavirus cases that may worsen with the holidays. While all three vaccines used in the U.S. — Pfizer, Moderna and the single-dose Johnson & Johnson — continue to offer strong protection against severe Covid-19 illness and death, their effectiveness against milder infection can wane over time. Here are a few things to know about boosters and why health officials are urging people to ge... 
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Call us old-fashioned, but we love the printed newspaper. Aside from the simple joy of holding something in your hand and reading it (versus staring at yet another screen), there are many reasons to love the print version of a newspaper. In the age of the internet, why would we say that? No. 1: Nobody can change it. Once the paper is printed, it can’t be erased. It’s a permanent record of what was published that week. That includes news, legal advertisements, crime stories, obituaries and more. The historical society and the library offer acc...
Some people blame the two-party political system for many of our nation’s problems. I can understand why — it seems each party spends more time accusing the other party for everything wrong while taking credit for everything right. It can’t be that way, of course, but that’s what happens when politicians are constantly campaigning rather than serving their constituents. It’s a real problem. I interviewed longtime U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar once on “Harry’s Gang.” It was quite an honor, and I pr...
Until a month ago, I’d been to Hawaii exactly zero times. Then, in something of a Bucket-List-Moment, my daughter, her husband and their perfect-and-beautiful, baby — my third perfect-and-beautiful grandson — 15 months old and embarrassingly genius, heartbreakingly sensitive, flirtatiously affectionate and the perfect amount of manipulative — like everyone else’s grandkid, but just better — convinced me and my beautiful, embarrassingly genius, heartbreakingly sensitive and flirtatious...
Dear Editor, Thank you. I just finished reading your article "Covid comes knocking" and I deeply appreciate both your sensitivity and your fact-based reporting which lays out the relative risk of getting Covid when vaccinated and unvaccinated. Breakthrough Covid is real, and as the disease continues to ravage the unvaccinated and more virus continues to persist in our community, breakthrough cases will increase, particularly as the vaccine protection begins to wane. And still, as you reported, the risk of serious harm is quite small if you are...
The Nov. 5 Pine Knot article on the small number of cases in the Carlton County jail, from Minnesota Public Radio, was fantastic, considering all the people in and out of the building. Why does the article then have to go on to say that the people there should get vaccinated? They are doing very well with safety. Not everyone wants the shot and shouldn't be forced, pressured or bribed to get it. Stop pressuring people and let them choose for themselves. Ronald Eng Wrenshall...
We know as citizens of Carlton County that we are very fortunate. We live in one of the most bucolic domains of nature populated with magnificent forests, crystal clear streams, and multiple lakes creating a “little slice of heaven.” Folks are friendly and community-minded whether celebrating local festivals all year-round or fundraising for charities. The list of pluses could fill the whole paper, but the major reason we can celebrate our good fortune is that we are one of a diminishing lis...
There’s an adage in hockey that to be a successful team you need to build from the nets out, meaning good goaltending is key. If that’s true, the Cloquet-Esko-Carlton boy’s hockey team should have a pretty good shot at success this season. “In my opinion, we have two of the best goalies in the state,” said CEC coach Shea Walters. “Jacob Walsh and Kyle Abrahamson played in the elite league this fall and both were heavily scouted and finished as two of the top goalies in the league.” At 6 feet 3 inches tall, Abrahamson uses his size and abil...
With the return of a large nucleus of players from last year's team, the Cloquet-Esko-Carlton girls hockey team has high expectations this season as they hope to make another run to the state hockey tournament. "We are returning 17 of 20 varsity players from last year's playoff roster, which has been a positive and allowed us to hit the ice running from the start," said CEC coach Courtney Olin. "Last year, many of those players earned some varsity experience and gained the confidence needed to...
