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Betty Louise Lidberg, 87, of Esko, passed away peacefully from natural causes Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, surrounded by family. She was born Jan. 18, 1934, the daughter of William and Elizabeth (Jantzen) in Superior. Betty graduated from Superior Central High School in 1952. She continued her education at the University of Wisconsin Superior and Concordia College, attaining a bachelor of science degree and then a master's degree from the University of Minnesota Duluth in 1987. Betty taught elementary...
Skunks have been on the move recently - as evidenced by a rise in those killed by vehicles on area roads - likely due to typical food shortages brought on by the dry summer and the fact that young skunks are leaving their mothers and wandering until they locate new territories. Photographer and Pine Knot News subscriber Mike Farmer said he saw this skunk when he was driving down a rural road in the region. "It appeared to have just gotten out of the water and was being harassed by horse flies....
Get your party on, Carlton County, this weekend is packed with community festivals. Esko got a head start on the weekend with Esko Fun Days kicking off earlier in the week. Still to come is fun at the football field on Friday, featuring a cornhole tournament starting at 6 p.m. Saturday is the grand finale of all the fun, with a 5K race at 8 a.m., an 11 a.m. parade, games in the park starting at 11:30 a.m. and a grass volleyball tournament starting at 2 p.m. The street dance that evening starts...
On July 19, 20 teams and 80 players converged on the Cloquet Country Club to play in the second annual Moose Cancer Golf Fundraiser. Gary “Moose” Pastika, a 50-year member of the club, died of colon cancer in 2018. The tournament (canceled because of the pandemic last year) is a tribute to him. Most funds generated go to the Cloquet Community Memorial Hospital Foundation, with an additional donation made to the Second Harvest Northern Lakes Food Bank. The hospital foundation has plans to buy a s...
Kids on bikes turned out in force Saturday morning, with nearly 100 participating in an event called Kids Pedal the Pines Day at Cloquet’s Pine Valley recreation area. There were bikers of all ages. “We were pleasantly surprised,” said Allison Jerde, secretary of the The Cloquet Singletrackers, a bike club advocating for trail use in Cloquet. “There were some really tiny kids on their strider bikes, using their feet to push, all the way up to teenagers,” she said. Singletrackers collabora...
Visitors to the Superior National Forest, including the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Area, will need to store food properly to help protect wild bears and humans. This food storage order is the result of increases in human-bear interactions with negative outcomes. Superior National Forest wildlife biologist Cheron Ferland said a new bear action plan implemented this year, easing how bear sightings can be reported, has likely led to more eyewitness sightings "but this by itself doesn't a...
Minnesotans who received unemployment income at any time in 2021 now have access to extremely low-cost health insurance through MNsure. The new benefits were implemented as part of the American Rescue Plan legislation enacted earlier this year. New federal subsidies for private health insurance on MNsure act as an instant discount for consumers, lowering the cost for monthly premiums. MNsure encourages anyone who received unemployment income for at least one week in 2021 to visit MNsure.org to check out their options. Current MNsure enrollees...
Graduates of the Cloquet High School classes of 1953, 1954 and 1955 gathered at the River Inn in Scanlon July 22 and 1952 Alborn High School graduate Walt Lindquist was there with a camera to take class photos....
The Chub Lake Park swimming beach is closed until further notice. E. coli levels are high, according to a Carlton County press release from last week. Water contact is not recommended....
To help ensure public safety and protect natural resources, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is expanding burning restrictions. Effective 12:01 a.m., July 27, areas within state jurisdiction in Aitkin, Becker, Benton, Carlton, Clearwater, Mahnomen and Stearns counties are included in burning restrictions already in place for the eastern portion of Roseau County and all of Beltrami, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Hubbard, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake of the Woods, Lake, Morrison, St. Louis, Todd and Wadena counties. The state will not issue...
The Superior City Council voted July 20 to support the transfer of burial lands on Wisconsin Point to the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. According to a story by Wisconsin Public Radio, the strip of land was once home to a vibrant Ojibwe community and represents the end of the Ojibwe migration story. At least seven generations were laid to rest at a cemetery on Wisconsin point. In 1918 nearly 200 graves were removed (and reburied at St. Francis Cemetery), followed by living tribal members several years later forced off by U.S....
Well, here we are again. Before the recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control this week for mask wearing, there were already telltale signs that the pandemic we prefer to talk about in the past tense just isn’t over yet. Because of the Delta variant that has been spreading among mostly unvaccinated people in pockets across the country, including in Minnesota, masks are back in our lives. It didn’t have to be this way. The dangerous variant is feasting on the unvaccinated. And it is...
Evelyn M. Graham, 95, of Cloquet passed away July 24, 2021, at St. Mary's Medical Center in Duluth. She was born on March 4, 1926, in Canada. She grew up in South Dakota and moved to Cloquet in 1954. Evelyn and her husband, Howard Graham, raised their family and formed many lifelong friendships there. She lived life to the fullest, enjoying her friends, gardening, dancing, church, sewing and, most of all, her home and children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. She will be missed by...
Recent Cloquet High School grad Sam Baker played in the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship in Pinehurst, North Carolina last week, and missed the cut by five strokes after two days of stroke play. Baker was nine over par for his two-day total: he was six over par on Day 1 and three over par for Day 2. More than 260 players qualified for the event, including a number of international players. After the first two days of competition, players with a score of four over par or better advanced to the...
Up North Elite is a 17U AAU boys basketball team based in Moose Lake - with eight Moose Lake/Willow River players and two players from Cloquet - just finished their season, playing in Nebraska and winning over Chicago 66-26, Oklahoma Next Level 91-70, Iowa Chill 74-60. The team lost two close games to Sioux Falls, 67-76, and Iowa Prep, 47-58, the weekend of July 24-25. Members of the team are ML/WR players Duane Broughton, Luke Dewey, Sam Dewey, Chance Lunde, Landin Kurhajetz, Logan Orvedahl,...
Florida resident Kathy Peil shared this memory of the Fourth of July when she was growing up in Cloquet in the mid-1950s, when the fireworks were set off just south of the ballfield in Pinehurst Park. According to Jim Boyd, who forwarded Peil's remembrance, in those days, firework lighters had a flare that glowed in the dark like the ones they used on the railroads to direct trains. The fellows lighting the fireworks would walk up to the structure the fireworks were placed in and light them...
Got a home sewer line that repeatedly backs up from roots? The City of Cloquet is offering a grant program for homeowners who need to upgrade or repair leaky or decaying lateral sewer lines running from the home to main sewer lines. The grants are part of a program to reduce the problems of clean water inflow and infiltration into the sanitary sewer system, which can overwhelm the system during heavy rain events and cause overflows of untreated sewer water. The program offers financial assistance of 80 percent of costs up to $4,000 for the...
The Cloquet Broadband Committee is asking residents and businesses to take a broadband survey to determine internet needs for the area. Visit www.goctc.com/cloquet to take the survey and find the link to a speed test or go here: mnruralbroadbandcoalition.com/speedtest. The western municipal city limits of Cloquet are not included in the survey because the FDL Reservation will be rolling out their broadband fiber to the home network connections which will be open to ALL residents within the FDL Reservation territory, not just Band members. The...
Motorists will encounter a lane closure on northbound Interstate 35 bridge crossing Moose Horn River, south of Barnum for the next 1-2 weeks while maintenance crews repair issues found during maintenance painting performed earlier in the week. MnDOT will be conducting environmental borings for soil and groundwater sampling near the intersection of Minnesota Highway 210 and Minnesota 73 in Cromwell next week. Motorists should expect narrow lanes and lane closures which may cause difficult turning movements, especially with large vehicles and...
As one sales tax nears its halfway point, the city of Cloquet is banking on residents approving a new one in November 2022 that would pay for improvements to the hockey arenas and Pine Valley park. It’s been almost nine years since the city’s first sales tax was passed, with 63 percent of voters approving the half-cent tax. Collection of monies for that sales tax will sunset after raising either $16.5 million or 30 years, whichever comes first. Finance director Nancy Klassen said Tuesday the city collected $1.1 million from sales tax funds in...
Late summer means community festival time all around Carlton County. We have Brickyard Days and the Free Range Film Festival in Wrenshall; Carlton Daze in Carlton; Wrong Days in Wright; Esko Fun Days in Esko; West End Flourish in Cloquet’s West End and, of course, there’s the Carlton County Fair. We encourage everyone to participate in these community-building events, especially as we emerge from isolation due to the recent pandemic. It’s a good chance to meet with your neighbors and have a little fun at the same time. There’s very little...
Donald Edward Sunnarborg, 92, of Laurel, Montana and formerly of Cloquet, went home to be with the Lord on July, 15, 2021, with his loving wife Ida Rose and other family members by his side. Donald was born July 3, 1929, in Cloquet to Edward and Helen Sunnarborg. He graduated from Esko High School in 1948. Donald served in the U.S. Army and was a Korean War veteran. On July 11, 1956, Donald married Ida Rose Kamunen, and they went on to raise five children. Donald was employed by Conoco, first...
Dorothy Jean Mettner, 95, of Cloquet passed on to eternal life on July 14, 2021, at Barnes Care in Esko. She was born to Andrew and Olga (Siltanen) Raisanen on Oct. 29, 1925, in Cloquet. Dorothy was a loving sister to her brother Warren, and she had two other siblings, Arlene and Jimmy, who both passed away in infancy. She grew up in Esko, where she enjoyed many nights of bowling and roller skating with friends. Dorothy graduated from Lincoln High School in 1943. She moved to Renton,...
Marinette Rose Chell, 78, of Wrenshall passed away July 18, 2021, at Inter-Faith Care Center in Carlton. She was born on May 11, 1943, the daughter of John and Agnes (Gault) Schneider in Cloquet. Marinette graduated from Wrenshall High School in 1961, and was employed as a dietary aide at St. Joseph Medical Center in Oklahoma and then as a property manager, working with her husband, Leslie for many years. Marinette was a member of the J.M. Paine Presbyterian Church, now The River's Edge Church...
Marjorie Irene (Carlson) Hall, 85, of Proctor and formerly of Esko, passed away peacefully Feb. 22, 2021, at Diamond Willow in Proctor, surrounded by her family. A Celebration of Life will be held 1-5 p.m. Saturday, July 31 in the lakeview cabana at Pike Lake Golf and Beach Club, 4895 Midway Road, Duluth. Kathleen “Kathi” J. Davis, 60, of Duluth passed away unexpectedly on Friday, July 16, 2021, in her home. A gathering of family and friends will be held 1-3 p.m. with a time of sharing at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, July 25 in the Atkins Northland Fun...
