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As Covid case numbers continue to fall after peaking here in early February, so too do the mask mandates. The only school district in the county to mandate universal mask wearing in all grades since the start of school, Cloquet school board members took a cautious approach through both the Delta and the Omicron variants, never altering the mandate. On Monday, however, board members voted 5-0 to end the mask mandate effective Saturday. Their decision was greeted with applause by nearly a dozen...
The Wrenshall school board on Feb. 9 appointed district substitute teacher Ben Johnson to the school board as a temporary replacement for member Alice Kloepfer, who had a serious case of Covid last fall and is still recovering. Johnson, who is also a firefighter in Duluth, expressed interest in becoming a board member last summer as the board needed to replace Michelle Blanchard, who became principal of the school. Cindy Bourn eventually filled that spot. Johnson has a child in the school and one who graduated from Wrenshall. He said he’d l...
A special five-judge panel released new congressional and legislative maps Tuesday setting the political playing field for Minnesota for the next 10 years. The newly drawn congressional districts keep the 7th in western Minnesota and extends the 8th district west to take in all the state’s northern Native American reservations and south to the northeast metro area. State legislative districts covering Carlton County changed little in the process....
A car crashed into a Barnum restaurant Sunday, but no one was injured and no charges are being filed. The 911 call came into Carlton County dispatch at 10:46 a.m. Sunday, reporting a motor vehicle had struck the Lazy Bear Restaurant building at 3696 Main St. in Barnum. According to a press release from the Carlton County Sheriff’s Office, Bloomington’s Amanda Geyen, 40, was turning from County Road 6 into the shared parking lot of the Minit Mart Gas Station and the Lazy Bear Restaurant. Gey...
For girls seeking the ultimate prom experience, finding and affording a dress can be a barrier to the big night. For the past several years, a mother-daughter team has put dresses within reach. Amy and Ashleigh Arntson's nonprofit If the Dress Fits helps teens find affordable dresses by collecting dress donations from across the region. After taking two years off during the pandemic, the team is back with a new concept this year. This year, dresses and fittings are taking place by appointment on...
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College is hosting a fantastic event featuring two FDLTCC alumni on Wednesday, Feb. 23. The exciting event will feature a presentation from Serrano Robinson and soul food lunch provided by Doc Witherspoon’s Soul Food Shack. Robinson currently works as the youth restorative program coordinator at Men as Peacemakers in Duluth. During his presentation, Serrano will acknowledge the United States’ history involving the Black community while raising awareness of current racial inequities and social injustices tha...
Northeast Minnesota Office of Job Training (JET) and Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College are providing free nursing assistant training through a 4-week fast track hybrid program in March. Eligible individuals interested in pursuing the exciting field of nursing can take a unique 4-week Nursing Assistant course at FDLTCC for free, courtesy of JET. Starting March 7, students participating in the hybrid program will participate in virtual courses on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays and...
The recent article by Steve Korby on his memories of sliding and skiing in the woods in Cloquet triggered my own memories from the early 1960s. I grew up on a dairy farm 3 miles northwest of Barnum. Even with few neighbor kids around, I don’t ever remember being bored for lack of fun or interesting things to do. I even felt a bit sorry for my classmates who lived in the big metropolis of Barnum — what would one do for fun in such a sterile, manmade environment? One problem we faced in the winter is that our farm and the area around it were lac...
Thursday, Feb. 10 Girls Basketball Cromwell-Wright-78 Barnum-45 South Ridge-97 Wrenshall-26 Pequot Lakes-71 Esko-54 Northwoods-72 Fond du Lac-38 Cloquet-61 Hibbing-49 Boys Basketball Northwoods-82 Fond du Lac-40 Cloquet-84 (OT) Hibbing-78 Boys Hockey CEC-5 Superior-2 Friday, Feb. 11 Boys Basketball South Ridge-70 Wrenshall-61 Fond du Lac-71 Carlton-66 Hermantown-105 (OT) Esko-103 Barnum-89 Cromwell-Wright-57 Moose Lake-Willow River-92 Floodwood-31 Boys Hockey Moose Lake Area-2 Ely-2 Saturday, Feb. 12 Girls Basketball Cass Lake-Bena-72...
Friday, Feb. 18 Boys basketball Esko at Cook County, 6:15 Cromwell-Wright at Carlton, 6:15 ML/WR at Barnum, 7:15 South Ridge vs. Two Harbors, 7:15 Wrenshall vs. Floodwood, 6:15 Girls basketball Esko at Cook County, 4:45 Saturday, Feb. 19 Girls basketball Cloquet at Bemidji, 1:30 Hockey Boys hockey playoffs Round 1 - TBD Monday, Feb. 21 Boys basketball Carlton at Two Harbors, 7:15 Cromwell-Wright vs. Mountain Iron-Buhl, 7:45 Cloquet at ML/WR, 7:15 Girls basketball Esko vs. Grand Rapids, 7:15 Carlton s. Two Harbors, 7:15 Barnum vs. Ogilvie, 7:15...
Emily Regas competed at the Minnesota state high school Alpine ski meet Wednesday, as the sole Lumberjacks qualifier. Regas placed 29th out of 88 skiers at the state meet, with runs of 41.96 and 43.43 for a total score of 1:25.39. She placed sixth at the Section 7 meet last week to earn her way to the state meet, while the girls team placed fourth overall at sections. The CEC girls team is young, with no juniors or seniors, so expectations are that the squad will be very competitive for the...
Cloquet High School Quarter 2 honor roll A Honor Roll Grade 9 Rizal Agaton-Howes Gage Allen Diamond Allen-Lovejoy Owen Anderson Ahnna Bader William Bauer Johanna Bernu Sarah Blais Joshua Bleskacek Ellise Boyd-Affias Sofia Breuer Madison Correll Cadence Dillon Brody Dushkin Madison Erickson Clare French Nikolas Gentilini Paige Goranson Shealee Gunderson Natalie Halling Noah Hansen Natalie Hautajarvi Riley Hillman Jean Hurd Nicholas Janke Sophia Johnson Erin Keating Addison Kozelouzek Michael Kruse Brijette LaCore Quinten Larsen Preston Latour...
Cromwell -Wright High School First Semester honor roll A Honor Roll Grade 12 Ludovica Abbozzo Jacob Anderson Andres Angulo Rylie Dobosenski NataLee Hakamaki Anja Johnson Scarlett Korpela Alaina Lind Jay Olesiak Andrea Pocernich Augusta Poskus Zevvus Smith Chandell Warner Michael Zoeller Grade 11 Noah Foster Isaac King Sascha Korpela Jacob Measner Steven Ridlon Payton Rosbacka Liam Schoenberg Grade 10 Elliott Anderson Jillian Anderson Avery Birman Tanner Collman Marissa Dahl Caya Forland Aurora Gervais Kyra Granholm Mya Gronner Maxell Hanni...
Graduated Cooper Ketola, of Cloquet, graduated from the University of Tampa on Friday, Dec. 17. Ketola graduated with a bachelor of arts in avertising and public relations. Esko’s Dawsen Cossalter graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in December. Cossalter received his bachelor of science in nursing. Dean’s list The University of Minnesota Duluth announced its dean’s list for fall semester. These local students on the dean’s list achieved a GPA of 3.5 or higher. Ezekiel R. Palmer, political science - Carlton Ben Talaric...
Across Carlton County, northern Minnesota and western Wisconsin, farmers are firing up the heaters in their greenhouses, ordering seeds and preparing for another season of feeding families across the region. For one unique type of farm, this is also the season when they begin to take orders from households that will receive weekly deliveries of farm fresh produce and other products throughout the summer and fall. It's called community supported agriculture, or just CSA, and it is an approach to...
Due to labor shortages and supply chain issues, Locally Laid Egg Company in Wrenshall has been unable to secure a steady stream of egg cartons. But it's not from a lack of trying. "I've been on the phone, on the road, talking with suppliers, setting up plan Bs, Cs and Ds," said owner Jason Amundsen. "We've been getting by that way for a while, but on Friday (Feb. 11) it all just fell apart." Supply chain issues across the country have come to roost in Wrenshall. "It's frustrating to have the...
After taking a pandemic pause last year, the Blue Jean Ball returned Saturday to rave reviews. The annual Community Educational Foundation fundraiser was modified for the times, of course. People wore masks walking around, but didn't have to wear masks when eating and drinking at the table. And the elaborately decorated tables were a little more spread out. But the spirit of the event was the same. "We didn't want anyone to think we weren't taking the virus seriously, and we were ready to turn o...
The Cloquet Area Home, Business & Sports Show originally set for March has been canceled by the Cloquet Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. The affiliated craft show will go on as scheduled, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 11-12 at Black Bear Casino Resort. This is the third year in a row the home, sport and business show has been scheduled but not held. The 2020 show was only days away when news that Covid-19 was affecting Minnesotans forced its cancellation. In 2021, despite efforts to reschedule more than once, the...
The “boo-hiss” melodrama, “The Villain Wore A Dirty Shirt, or, Always Wash Your Long Johns ’Cause It Makes a Lotta Cents,” opens tonight. “It’s a good old-fashioned melodrama that will have audiences of young and old laughing throughout the entire production,” said director Joel Soukkala. Performances are at 7 p.m. Feb. 11-12 and Feb. 17-18. There will be 2 p.m. shows on Feb. 13 and Feb. 19-20 at the Encore Performing Arts Center in Cloquet. On-demand performances will be available for online viewing Feb. 18-20. Tickets for live or virtual...
Residential households in the U.S. can order one set of 4 free at-home tests from USPS.com courtesy of the federal government. Go to https://special.usps.com/testkits to order. • Limit of one order per residential address; • One order includes 4 individual rapid antigen COVID-19 tests; • Orders will ship free....
The Minnesota State Patrol reported at least two crashes in Carlton County during Saturday’s windy and snowy weather. A Ford Escape driven by Superior’s Benjamin Norbie, 26, ran into a plow truck on Interstate 35 near mile marker 230 in Atkinson Township at 1:27 p.m. Saturday. The Sterling plow truck, driven by Jedediah Ninefeldt, was traveling southbound I-35 in the left lane when the Ford Escape collided with the plow truck. Norbie was transported to St. Luke’s Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to the MSP report. Ninef...
Springboard for the Arts and Racing Magpie announced that applications for the 2022 Creative Community Leadership Institute (CCLI) are open through Feb. 27 for applicants from Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and the 23 Native Nations that share that geography. CCLI is an intensive and cohort-based training program with real-world practice for artists, culture bearers, community organizers, community development practitioners, and other leaders seeking to deepen their impact in creative community building. CCLI will have three regionally...
When Leona Johnson spoke out at the Esko school board meeting Monday, it wasn’t the first time a local school board member worried aloud about “discrimination” against children who choose to not be vaccinated or masked missing more school because of those choices. Discrimination is absolutely the wrong word choice here. Yes, people are free to choose whether or not to be vaccinated themselves, or have their children vaccinated against Covid. In some districts — not all — they are also free to decide whether or not to wear masks. But if those ch...
With a $7 billion-plus surplus, perhaps it is time to eliminate the Social Security income tax on retired Minnesota seniors. As a Retired Fire Service member I receive minimal Social Security due to the pension offset. Eliminating this tax is the right thing to do. Jim Langenbrunner, Sturgeon Lake...
When we moved to Cloquet about 30 years ago, we felt we were moving to a nice town. We were wrong. It’s a great town. I recently injured my foot and have found it difficult to get around. A lady who was traveling by when I fell jumped out of her car to try and help me up. People have tried to help in so many ways. I cannot count the number of people who have tried to help when they see me struggle with my cane. People have reached for items at the store for me. They have taken my packages and put them in our truck. They have opened doors and t...
