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

There has been an unusual number of drug overdose fatalities on reservations, reported Tony Bastien, investigator for the Carlton County Sheriff’s Office at the Nov. 7 meeting of the Carlton County...

The City of Moose Lake is proud to announce that it has been awarded a $600,000 grant from the Minnesota Department of Transportation Local Partnership Program. This grant will partially fund a...

Mercy Hospital CEO Mike Delfs spoke about the candidates in the upcoming election and his concerns about their promotions of changing the health insurance system at the meeting of the Mercy Hospital...

An “outstanding (voter) turnout” was reported by Clerk Carole Lahti at Sturgeon Lake’s regular city council meeting on Friday, November 9. Lahti also noted an uptick in registration. “A lot...

Following impressive turnout to August’s primary elections, Carlton County voters again participated in high numbers in last Tuesday’s midterm election with 80.64 percent of eligible voters...

Byron Kuster of Moose Lake was very concerned about the low MCA (Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment) scores at the Moose Lake Community School that came out in early October. The tests were given in...

The Moose Lake-Willow River Rebel football team traveled to Brainerd to take on the Barnesville Trojans in the first round of the state football tournament last Friday night. The Rebels committed...

This may come off a bit morbid, but I've been thinking a lot about mortality these past few days. I've been thinking of how scared many are of it, how we do almost anything to prevent the inevitable....

For a moment, I felt like a rock star this morning. I’m talking about the one in the commercial who appears on stage in front of 50,000 screaming Cleveland fans and yells into the microphone,...