When Brenda Tischer wrote and thanked us for "putting the 'local' back into the local paper,"

I thought to myself: "Phew, she gets it.

Our Facebook readers get it.

The people I see at the store, at the boys soccer banquet, at the playoff football game and all the folks Pete ran into at church get it, too.

The Pine Knot News is here because our communities - Cloquet, Esko, Carlton, Cromwell, Wright, Wrenshall - need a paper that will be here in good and bad times. We need a quality paper that cares enough to keep an office in town. And we need a paper that understands we live here in Carlt...