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Janice Marie Elliott

2 days ago | pinejournal.com | Anna Paige |Tammy Swift

Janice Marie Elliott passed away peacefully at home on June 17th, 2025 at the age of 85. She is preceded in death by her parents Joseph and Katherine Lang and brother Joseph Lang. She is survived by her husband of 63 years, Charles W.
Kenneth J. Panger

1 week ago | pinejournal.com | Anna Paige |Tammy Swift

Kenneth James Panger, age 87, of St. Cloud, died Wednesday, June 18, 2025 at Summit Ridge Memory Care in Sauk Rapids, MN. A Celebration of Life Service will be at 11:00 AM on Saturday, September 13, 2025 at Benson Funeral Home, St. Cloud, MN. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Burial with full military honors will be in Maywood Cemetery, Oak Park, MN.
Attorney Nicholas Mehlum Joins Fryberger Law Firm

1 week ago | pinejournal.com | Anna Paige |Tammy Swift

DULUTH, MN—Fryberger, Buchanan, Smith & Frederick, P.A., a prominent law firm based in Duluth, is proud to welcome attorney Nicholas Mehlum to its legal team. A native of Superior, Wisconsin, Mehlum graduated from Superior High School in 2015. He went on to earn a bachelor’s degree from Bemidji State University in 2018. While at Bemidji State University, he was a two-time Academic All-Conference honoree and played on the football team.
Attorney Brandon Zumwalt Joins Fryberger Law Firm

1 week ago | pinejournal.com | Anna Paige |Tammy Swift

DULUTH, MN—Duluth-based law firm Fryberger, Buchanan, Smith & Frederick, P.A. recently announced the addition of attorney Brandon Zumwalt. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Zumwalt moved to Minnesota in 2005 to attend St. Olaf College, where he graduated cum laude. He went on to earn his juris doctor degree from William Mitchell College of Law. Zumwalt’s practice primarily focuses on civil litigation, employment law, and landlord/tenant matters.
Northland Nature: Flying dragons appear in June

1 week ago | pinejournal.com | Larry Weber

Along with the summer solstice, days in June give plenty of sunlight, reaching nearly 16 hours. We also get warm and frequently, a good amount of rain. Traditionally, June is our wettest month. Putting together the weather of long days, warmth and wet, June is ripe for growing, and we see this all around us. Lawns get mowed every few days. Gardens respond with the first produce of the season.
Rose Elaine Stockham

1 week ago | pinejournal.com | Anna Paige |Tammy Swift

Rose Elaine Stockham passed away peacefully at home in Cloquet, MN, on May 19, 2025, with her family by her side. She was born on March 15, 1948, in Vancouver, Washington, to Evangeline and Cedric Smithline, into a large family who lived on a farm outside of Battle Ground, Washington. Rose attended Battle Ground High School and spent two years at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington. In December 1968, Rose met Gary Stockham at a church dance in Portland, Oregon, and their relationship began.
Adjourned: What the Minnesota Legislature did and didn’t pass this year

2 weeks ago | pinejournal.com | Mary Murphy

ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Legislature finished the 2025 session in overtime with a one-day special session that delivered a $67 billion state budget and a $700 million bonding package. Lawmakers were tasked this session with a divided government of 101 Democrats and 100 Republicans, and a tie dynamic gracing both the Senate and House at different points in the session. The June 9 finish line for lawmakers came roughly five months after the Minnesota Legislature’s kick-off Jan.
Northland Nature: Uncommon waterleaf blooms in shade

2 weeks ago | pinejournal.com | Larry Weber

It seems like it was not long ago that we looked at the forest floor of deciduous trees and we noted carpets of the early spring wildflowers. Having a short lifetime and a need for direct sunlight, they grew fast. Flowers, such as bloodroot, spring beauty, hepatica and trout lilies, quickly formed stems and leaves above the ground and opened their flowers to be pollinated by early flying bees. They were in a hurry. Their sunny site would not last long.
Report reveals questions over former Carlton superintendent's stipends, reporting to state

2 weeks ago | pinejournal.com | Kristine Goodrich

CARLTON — The former superintendent of Carlton Public Schools received over $60,000 in additional income from the district that may have been authorized by a committee but was never approved by the full school board, an investigation concluded. The report also reveals a second multifaceted complaint was made by a staff member against former superintendent Donita Stepan. It questioned Stepan's counting of enrolled students and required instructional hours in reports to the state.
Betty (Larson) Forsberg

2 weeks ago | pinejournal.com | Anna Paige |Tammy Swift

Betty (Larson) Forsberg, an extraordinary wife and mother, passed on May 22, 2025 at 87, after a long illness. She is survived by her loving husband, Daryl Forsberg and her daughters Desiree and Denise. Betty was born to Lowell and Mae Small in Holyoke Minnesota on April 14,1938. She was later joined by a brother Jerry and sisters Peggy and Vicki. All preceded Betty in death except for the youngest sister, Vicki Crotteau.