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They are Carlton County’s number crunchers. No-nonsense. Often unheralded if even noticed. Cogs in the government machine. So when something has assessor Kyle Holmes and auditor Paul Gassert spooked, it’s a big deal. The 300-pound gorilla both men are facing, as are all taxpayers in the county, is the repayment to utility companies for years they were deemed as overtaxed on their properties. Notably, Enbridge Energy, which has a huge footprint in the county as its pipeline network skims acr...
For more than a year, Carlton County has been commemorating the firestorm of 1918. There have been photographs and artifact displays, talks by historians, and readings of first-person accounts. And yet it can still be difficult to fathom just what life was like in the county that fall with a moonscape of ashes all around. It's what makes things eerie when the fire gets placed back in the news 100 years later, not as a historical marker but as a gruesome comparison to what is happening now in...
Cloquet is beginning to look a lot like Christmas these days, with another season of holiday lights officially turned on the night before Thanksgiving. City engineer Caleb Peterson said the displays throughout the city have grown, with new lighting and banners for the reconstructed Cloquet Avenue along with more donations from the king of holiday lighting, Nathan Bentley. Trees that once had strings of lights will be hung with lighted snowflakes. It was a fix for winds whipping the strings...
Carlton County Sheriff's Office deputy Mike Soderstrom can add "mayor" to his list of public roles. Soderstrom, who once served as a Carlton school board member, was the write-in choice for Carlton mayor in last week's general election. "I guess enough of my friends and neighbors wanted me in there, so here's goes nothing," Soderstrom said. Twenty-three voters wrote his name in. The next highest tally was 14 for Ryan Spears. Soderstrom's hesitation, with two young children and two adult children, has always been about sharing his time, he said....
Cloquet High School student Raven Sevilleja was one of 20 students from across the country invited to a three-day seminar in the Washington, D.C. area last month. The listening session was designed to give federal government agencies a sense of how teens and young adults make decisions. Anne Parish, a coordinator with the local mentoring program REACH, nominated Sevilleja. "She's extremely bright," Parish said. "She's an abstract thinker. Raven thinks bigger and broader." Sevilleja was bemused...
It was a fortuitous bus ride discussion nearly two years ago that led to a student-run peer group in Cloquet designed to keep kids safe from the stressful triggers of adolescence. "We want to do more" is what Anne Parish remembers students saying on the ride home from a suicide prevention training in Grand Rapids. She is a coordinator for REACH, the countywide mentoring program for teens begun in 2000. "Things have progressed," said Raven Sevilleja, a student at Cloquet High School and one of th...
Things are humming along in Cloquet through the lens of Holly Hansen, the city's community development director. On all fronts - housing, redevelopment, new and recovering business - the city is "very steady" in progress made since the economic downturn a decade ago. Hansen arrived in Cloquet in the midst of that recession, in 2009. "There's been a lot of change," Hansen said. "But we are a small city that can hold its own." There are some obvious signs of activity along Hwy 33, where the new...
