New Catholic Parish in Baxter

Officials of the Diocese of Duluth have authorized a new Catholic parish, the first in forty years. Deacon Mike Knuth the new church will be on Carson Lake Road west of Highway 371 north of Baxter. Knuth said they expect the first building, a prayer chapel to be ready to use by May of this year. The last new parish was St. Andrews in Brainerd established in the early 1960s.