By Mike Creger
Pine Knot News 

The Bentleyville-Cloquet pipeline of lights

 

November 23, 2018

Jana Peterson/ Pine Knot News

The holiday lights at Cloquet's Fauley Park fit perfectly with the park's permanent tenant, Duluth & Northeastern Railroad Steam Locomotive No. 16. The number of city light displays has increased dramatically in recent years, thanks to a previous purchase of displays from the city of Virginia and donations from Nathan Bentley and the Bentleyville display that now makes its home in Duluth.

Cloquet is beginning to look a lot like Christmas these days, with another season of holiday lights officially turned on the night before Thanksgiving.

City engineer Caleb Peterson said the displays throughout the city have grown, with new lighting and banners for the reconstructed Cloquet Avenue along with more donations from the king of holiday lighting, Nathan Bentley.

Trees that once had strings of lights will be hung with lighted snowflakes. It was a fix for winds whipping the strings around, Peterson said. Another adjustment was made in moving the walk-by display to Veterans Park. Power...



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