Gilbert, Eveleth weekly newspapers shut down

The twin newspapers of the Eveleth Scene and Gilbert Herald published their final editions earlier this month. These two Iron Range weekly papers enjoyed a long history in two of the most interesting towns on the Mesabi. The Gilbert Herald in particular had published more than a century. Publisher Nathan Krause, who took over the papers his father and grandmother worked before him, wrote one final editorial and shared his thoughts with the Mesabi Daily News.

Krause’s final editorial ended on these words:

… everyone knows that the sun will rise again tomorrow and it is said that time stands still for no one. If you are reading this article then you have a bit of an inquisitive spirit. Teach someone around you to seek out knowledge. To know and understand the world around you and your fellow human beings is a great and amazing thing. Knowledge seekers of this type are the ones who keep people, places, government, groups and society true to their word.

Krause’s full editorial, below the jump:

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Final editorial of the Eveleth Scene and Gilbert Herald, by publisher Nathan Krause:

Here is to the end, my friends. The sad date in a publication’s existence when a story has to be written through soggy eyes to encompass all of the history of a 105-year-old Gilbert Herald and 39-year-old Eveleth Scene.

The moments that may flash through my mind are merely new baby memories compared to all that the building here in Gilbert has seen. Wars, many many presidents. Good times in boom economies and sorrow in bad economies. Many life memories of the Krause family.

This old paper has talked of so much history from eras gone by from the fire at the old Gilbert church to every church, Boy Scout, Girl Scout, library, VFW, event and even the more personal stories of a boy and his fish.

Great moments in time from the Gilbert HS basketball team at the state meets, the EGHS hockey team winning hockey tourneys, the opening of a groundbreaking OHV park, the schools themselves consolidating to try and hold a higher standard to our kids’ educations. There are far more stories that I will never hear, and which should be told. That however will be entrusted to future knowledge seekers.

It’s seen the citis of Eveleth and Gilbert grow 100 years old.

It’s seen the rise and fall of governments. The advent of city, state and national technological advances. From the days of the Gilbert Herald being produced right here in Gilbert to alliances with papers around the region, many friendships in many ways have been made by this paper.

From my father, the architect of what I have laid out weekly for going on seven years, I have learned this: You have to live life to be happy. Learn from the history, shape the future.

I can’t in this short space speak to all those that deserve acknowledgement, nor do I have time to organize it all into one coherent article. Gilbert and Eveleth have both prospered and grown from the days the pioneers established these towns, and I can only hope that new pioneers will continue the legacy.

I myself have watched the old technologies of the craft of journalism and newspaper publishing take hold from a little of my father working the hot metal when I was a kid to computerization to my own dive into publishing the paper myself a little over three years ago.

I don’t mean to toot my own horn if you will, because everyone knows that the sun will rise again tomorrow and it is said that time stands still for no one. If you are reading this article then you have a bit of an inquisitive spirit. Teach someone around you to seek out knowledge. To know and understand the world around you and your fellow human beings is a great and amazing thing. Knowledge seekers of this type are the ones who keep people, places, government, groups and society true to their word.

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