Moose Lake Star Gazette - Serving Carlton and Pine Counties since 1895

Representatives from Carlton County's Public Health program reported Carlton County ranks near the bottom in a Minnesota study on health outcomes for its residents. What does this mean? The study looked at 25 factors that influence health, such as ch...

Record snows and cold temperatures, mixed with rain, have challenged rural travel the Carlton County Highway Department reported to the township officers at their spring meeting April 23. Several mild winters with road bed frost out sometimes in earl...

Carlton County Commissioner Gary Peterson continued to press the board for a strategic planning session using a trained facilitator from the Minnesota Association of Counties. Tentatively June 4 was chosen. The Carlton County Committee of the Whole m...

Due to the Flash Flood of 2012, $3.1 million in property losses in Carlton County will impact the tax valuations and thus the tax levied in several of the townships and cities. All taxable property in Carlton County has a combined value of $2.6...

House Representative Mike Sundin addressed the Carlton County Board of Commissioners at their May 25 meeting on legislative issues affecting the area directly this year. "It has been a learning experience," Sundin commented. "But, there are critical...

This year marks the 95th anniversary of the 1918 Forest Fire. The Moose Lake Area Historical Society is planning a three day commemoration of the historical event on October 11, 12 and 13. A program committee has been working on details since the...

Bureaucracy, red tape, and lack of staff for processing paperwork are big issues for flood recovery Drew Digby, Long Term Recovery Manager for the Carlton County flood area, explained at a February 25 Carlton County Board meeting presentation....

An obsolete, 13-year-old phone system for the Carlton County Courthouse will be replaced by a Telcologix (Avaya) VolP based phone system estimated to cost $93,774 the Carlton County Board decided at their February 12 regular meeting. Cost of...

Pat Oman, Economic Development director for Carlton County, announced that word has come from the Minnesota Investment Fund personnel of a $1.8 million grant for flood relief in Carlton County. Carlton County was the only one to apply. $110,000 is de...

Drew Digby, Carlton County lead on a response to Flash Flood of 2012 damage, addressed the Carlton County Board at their last meeting of 2012. In a nutshell, Digby said there are over 400 active cases in the county with 91 residential homes approved...

Time has passed. The Connecticut community shaken by school shootings of the young is groping its way to healing. Claims fly back and forth from the fringes of American society on gun ownership and regulation. I own guns. I was raised with guns....

The Carlton County Board approved $5,000 worth of architectural work for a new Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) and Agricultural Extension building at the Transportation Building site at its December 11 board meeting. "I'm at a loss,"...

A Certificate of Recognition from Governor Mark Dayton was presented to Carlton County Highway Engineer Wayne Olson and the Carlton County Transportation Department for their use of tire shreds for light-weight fill on County Road 19 in Split Rock...

About 15 county employees, some with decades of experience with county functions, supported Rich Bryant from the Building Maintenance Department as he addressed the Carlton County Board on October 9, 8:30 a.m. at the Transportation Building with all...

Dan Reed "You can't keep taxing property owners more and more … a three percent increase should be enough," said Carlton County Board Chair Ted Pihlman at the regular Carlton County Board meeting on September 11 at the Transportation Building with...

Heidi Cunningham, upon recommendation of current administrator, Bruce Benson, was appointed the new Carlton County Zoning and Waste Management Administrator by a unanimous vote of the full Carlton County board at the Transportation Building on July...