By some important accounts, you are reading the “most outstanding weekly newspaper” in Minnesota. And we could not be more proud.

As you can read elsewhere in this issue, your Pine Knot News won 33 awards and a trophy at last week’s Minnesota Newspaper Association online awards ceremony. And while we take credit for boldly creating a new Pine Knot just a couple of years ago — in a climate not particularly friendly to newspapers — we credit you, Carlton County residents and former residents, for making our paper so good.

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