“Offering a farm fresh alternative to stale cinema,” the Free Range Film Festival of rural Wrenshall will celebrate its fifth year of showing quality independent films inside a historic barn July 24-26.
Criminal charges are expected against three juvenile girls in connection with two incidents of vandalism at a Cloquet cemetery in May and June.
The three girls, all age 14 and all of Cloquet, admitted to causing damage at Old Calvary Cemetery (located above Pinehurst Park) recently, according to Terry Hill, assistant Cloquet Police chief.
Lezlie Ballis, project manager from the Energy/Housing Department at Lakes & Pines, is well aware of the need in Carlton County for funding to help rehabilitate housing and commercial buildings.
Few, if any, in the architectural world would be apt to refer to the variable Frank Lloyd Wright as “sweet” – but that’s exactly how Cloquet’s Joyce McKinney saw him.
“He was just sweet,” she declared, referring to the first meeting she and husband Daryl had with the famous architect. “It was very pleasant talking to him. We already were very familiar with his work, and I think he liked young people and talking about architecture, so we got along with him very well.”
An arson fire caused $80,000 in damage to a home in Cloquet on Monday.
The home at 1566 Whispering Pine Drive had been vacant, but new tenants were slated to move in next week, according to Cloquet Police Detective Darrin Berg, who is investigating the crime with Fond du Lac Police Detective Russ Rule.
Carlton will once again be “the place to be” next weekend as it hosts its annual Carlton Daze celebration.
Slated to run from Friday, July 25, to Sunday, July 27, the popular summer celebration features non-stop entertainment from dawn until well after dusk.
A kayak competitor paddles through whitewater for practice in the gorge at Thomson dam in Jay Cooke State Park Saturday. The annual Whitewater Rendezvous was held there over the weekend. [Lisa Baumann/Pine Journal]
A number of familiar candidates will show up on the ballot for this fall’s upcoming elections in Carlton County. Several of them have run for office before, and at least one incumbent is “switching gears” to seek a different post.
A motion to approve tax increment financing (TIF) for a new housing development across from Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College died during the Cloquet City Council meeting Tuesday.
The din outside Washington Elementary will likely hit an unprecedented high this fall when students are given free reign over a new and improved playground.
Although Becky Schneberger doesn’t come from a line of dancers, it became a family affair soon after she began taking lessons in second grade in her hometown of Austin, Minn.
“I always loved to dance,” said Schneberger, who was born in 1947. “When we found out the next-door neighbor was taking dance, my brother and I both joined. We ended up performing as a trio.”
Love all things Frank Lloyd Wright? Can’t get enough of the fascinating quirks and foibles of Minnesota’s history? Wishing you could go “back to the Fifties” again? Then be sure to put Aug. 7 on your calendar.
In conjunction with the upcoming 50th anniversary celebration of the world’s only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed service station in Cloquet, the Minnesota Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA-MN), along with the AIA-Northern Chapter, is planning an afternoon symposium on Thursday, Aug. 7, that is guaranteed to satisfy all of those longings – and more.
In 1932, architect Frank Lloyd Wright unveiled his visionary plan for the perfect American town. On June 12, 2008, the Carlton County Historical Society unveiled an exhibition dedicated to Wright’s creation of the R.W. Lindholm service station, and the town – Cloquet – that made part of his vision a reality.
In our own backyard... I can fly now Wendy Johnson
I first learned how to ride a bicycle by coasting down the front lawn of our family home. We lived in the country and since there were no sidewalks, it was kind of like baptism by fire as I pitched and careened down the ruts and ridges of our front yard.
Slices of Life... Late Night TV Guy pays no heed to bedtimes Jill Pertler
For the most part, my husband is an extremely rational and logical human being. There is an orderly and predictable pattern to his days. He showers in the morning; brushes his teeth after meals. He rises early and goes to bed at a reasonable hour. He is a reasonable man – for the most part.
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