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Photos and video showing the alleged child abuse of at least two Native American children in foster care set off a Facebook firestorm last week that has ballooned into a series of protests that organizers say will continue in Carlton County until the children are deemed safe. One video shows a toddler being spanked repeatedly. Another shows a boy between the ages of 5 and 10 years old wearing only what looks like a diaper while he's being hit in the back with a spatula. The same boy is pictured...
On Monday, Dec. 27, 2021, John David Clawson, loving husband and father of five children, passed from this earth into the arms of Jesus at age 87. John was born on Aug. 28, 1934 to Ray and Daisy (Shroyer) Clawson. He graduated from Proctor High School in 1952, then joined the Army National Guard where he began his training as an auto mechanic, and was honorably discharged in May of 1963. He worked as a mechanic until his retirement. John married his second wife, Margarite (Lee-Strand) in April...
Our monthlong march through 2021 looking back at past issues of the Pine Knot News continues today with the next four months of the year, May through August. It was a summer that saw a return of many regular activities after another Covid-19 pandemic lull in the region. It wouldn't last, as we'll find out in the final installment of the year in review next week. May In mid-May, 600 finalists from around the world will gather for the Regeneron International Science and Engineer Fair to dazzle...
Here are a couple of photos from the Carlton County Historical Society that aren't neccessarily "mysteries" as they are just interesting portaits of people in a certain time. But the museum does have just minimal information on them. The picture of the three men above simple say "Mahtowa" on the back. The photo at left is inscribed "Wright MN. Photo by Harry Bergstrom." If you have any information, or interesting photos you'd like to share, send them to [email protected]...
A jury trial is underway at the Carlton County Courthouse for a Scanlon man accused of criminal sexual conduct “with heinous elements” and kidnapping. Dennis Michael St. John Jr., 55, was arrested in July 2020, after being accused of holding a woman against her will and raping her repeatedly, forcing drugs on her and threatening to kill her. He has been in custody since his arrest with bail set at $1 million with no cash option. According to the criminal complaint, the alleged victim ran into St. John at the Black Bear Casino Resort on Jul...
The Cloquet Broadband Committee is asking residents for a few minutes of their time to complete a survey about their internet service. Local business people and public officials gathered Wednesday morning to talk about the need for reliable high-speed internet in today's world, and how the pandemic has exposed some of the deficits in the city of Cloquet. Cloquet schools superintendent Michael Cary talked about the progression of access to information, from the lucky few with a set of encyclopedi...
The new year brought a leadership change for the Thomson Township Board of Supervisors, and a heated discussion of the way allegations against supervisor Jason Paulson were handled by township attorney David Pritchett. Reorganization was the first topic of discussion at the township board meeting Thursday, Jan. 6, with chair Terry Hill stepping down and Ruth Janke being elected the new chair. Bill Gerard was voted the new vice chair. Supervisor Jason Paulson made a motion to seek out new legal counsel for the township during reorganization,...
The Cloquet Ski Club will hold its Invitational meet at Pine Valley park in Cloquet Saturday for kids (mostly) and adults of all ages. The jumping competition starts at noon, followed by the Nordic combined cross country ski races. Spectators are welcome. The B&B food truck will be open there 10 a.m. to 3 p.m....
The annual Food for Thought scholarship fundraising event has been reimagined again this year because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. This year’s event features the return of the Wall of Wine, a raffle with great prizes, and a prize board for Minnesota Wild tickets. The Wall of Wine kicks off Friday, Jan. 14, and will run at Cold One Liquor until sold out. Donate $20 and receive a bottle of wine from the Wall of Wine plus a gift card to a local business. Raffle tickets are available through Foundation Board members, at the FDLTCC Business O...
Applications for 2022-2023 funding from United Way of Carlton County are available through the United Way of Carlton County (UWCC) website, www.unitedwaycarltoncounty.org. Funding is available for all eligible nonprofits working in Carlton County. Applications will be accepted until Feb. 11. Final funding decisions will be made in Spring 2022. Last year, UWCC granted more than $175,000 to local nonprofits. For more information or to check eligibility, please contact Ali Bilden Camps at 218-879-8404....
If you have unwanted or no longer working holiday lights, please recycle them at the Carlton County Transfer Station located at 1950 Highway 210. The program provides FREE holiday lights recycling. Electric cords are also accepted. The year-round hours for the Carlton County Transfer Station are 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays. For efficient recycling, remove string lights from any type of plastic spool, cardboard packaging or plastic bags, and remove all decorations from the lights. Place the clean...
For the first time since Covid-19 arrived, new infections in Minnesota are topping 10,000 a day. And those are just the folks who are getting lab tests. That number does not count the number of people using at-home Covid-19 tests. “All five of the top days for cases recorded in Minnesota by sample data were within a week after Christmas,” said MPR News data reporter David Montgomery. “Before then, all the records had been set back in November 2020.” The ripple effect is being felt across the state, as sick employees — or those with positive... 
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Since the end of last year, Carlton County has recorded 246 new Covid-19 cases and two deaths. The cumulative numbers since the start of the pandemic as of Wednesday are 6,361 cases and 82 deaths, according to the Minnesota Department of Health. As of Jan. 6, the positive test rate here was 4.8 percent. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, community transmission is high, with a total of 133 cases reported from Jan. 4-10. There were four new hospital admissions over that time period. Just over 70 percent of the total popu...
Raiter Clinic – Cloquet Call 218-879-1271 for appt. PCR test, 3-5 days for results. MedExpress – Cloquet Call 218-878-7903 when you arrive at the parking lot. Tests are first come, first served. Wait times may be up to 1-3 hours. Offers both rapid (15 minutes) and PCR test (3-5 days). Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center (DECC) Vault PCR test gives results in 1-2 days in most cases. Rapid test results while you wait (15 minutes). Open Tuesday-Friday 11 a.m.-6 p.m. and Saturday 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Closed on Martin Luther King Day. Schedule an...
In compliance with the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) emergency temporary standard on Covid-19 for employers with 100 or more employees, Cloquet and Carlton school board members both adopted policies meeting the OHSA mandate Monday, Jan. 10. The deadline for policy implementation was Jan. 10, which meant Carlton declared a special meeting for the vote, while Cloquet tackled the issue as part of its regular meeting. Businesses, including school districts, with more than 100 employees have two options: adopt a p...
Like many school district officials across the region and state, Esko school board members adopted a policy this week requiring all district employees to either be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 or wear masks and test weekly. Board members did not have much of a decision on whether or not to adopt the policy on Monday, as it is proposed to be mandated through the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, meaning the district could be fined for not being in compliance. “To everyone listening, I wish I had something else to say b...
While businesses sweat out a pending Supreme Court decision on Covid-19 vaccine mandates, the Wrenshall school board found and took advantage of a loophole Monday night. At its first regular meeting of the year, board members voted to not include themselves as employees of the district, putting it below the 100-employee threshold for the mandate called for by President Joe Biden. Before Monday, Wrenshall’s employee count was 101. The Minnesota School Boards Association has been prepping districts across the state to put policies in place...
Mary Vnuk, 83, of Palm Harbor, Florida and Cloquet passed away Oct. 3, 2021 in Palm Harbor. She was born in Cloquet to Ira and Jessie Sell on Dec. 11, 1937. Mary Frances Sell married Richard John Joseph Vnuk on Aug. 15, 1964. She graduated from St. Scholastica's School of Nursing and worked as a floor and emergency room nurse before becoming a nursing instructor for both St. Luke's School of Nursing in Duluth and Lake Superior Community College. She also helped run and manage Vnuk's Liquor Marke...
Doris Ann Strand, 94, passed away Friday, Jan. 7, 2022 in Moose Lake Village in Moose Lake. Doris was born on Sept. 24, 1927 in Cloquet to Octave and Beda Caron. She spent her childhood and youth in the loving care of her aunt and uncle, Sigrid and Gus Bredenberg. Doris graduated from Cloquet High School in 1945. She married Raymond Strand on March 26, 1946. Raymond and Doris moved to the family dairy farm north of town where they raised eight children and farmed for 33 years. Doris had an...
Elizabeth Marie "Liz" Bice Thom was born in Faribault on Jan. 12, 1945, to Orville and Oletta Halvorson Bice. She was a 1963 graduate of Medford High School in Medford, and graduated as a registered nurse from Methodist-Kahler School of Nursing in Rochester in 1966. She died Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022, at Essentia Health-Moose Lake hospital from metastatic colon cancer. Her hope was that through this challenge, she might meet it head-on with grace and dignity, leaning on her Lutheran faith for...
Mary J. Ward, 85, of Cromwell and formerly of Carlton, passed away Monday, Jan. 10, 2022, at Villa Vista Care Center. She was born June 4, 1936, in Duluth, the daughter of Villio and Irene (Buley) Nummi. Mary enjoyed traveling and camping and was the camping host at Spafford Park in Cloquet and the campground in Saginaw. She was the scorekeeper for the Carlton High School volleyball team from 1974-2010 and was asked to score at the state volleyball tournament. Mary had worked at the Skelly...
Glada Joy Kermeen, 93, of Carlton passed away peacefully in her sleep Dec. 11, 2021 at Inter-Faith Care Center in Carlton. Glada was a longtime resident of Cloquet before moving to Carlton Place Assisted Living in 2016. She proudly lived in her apartment until her final two days. She was born Nov. 9, 1928 in Salem, South Dakota to Leona (Klages) and Leo Bies, and grew up in Marshall, Minnesota during The Great Depression and World War II. Because her father died when she was young, her mother,...
We’ve heard a lot about resigned attitudes toward the Covid-19 pandemic. They run from “everyone’s going to get it, so why try to avoid it?” to “it doesn’t seem so bad now, like the flu.” But anyone entertaining those thoughts is likely just in denial. Every day, we hear stories about how the pandemic, with its slings and arrows, is deeply affecting all of us. It’s mental. It’s physical. It’s all so draining, and, yes, still deadly. The omicron variant is creating the largest spikes of the entire pandemic. Luckily, we have tools — now familia...
Strangely, in my career, I’ve made a lot of friends just by suing them. It sounds odd, doesn’t it? But it’s true. Usually, it would seem, lawsuits more often end up making enemies out of friends. But it doesn’t have to be that way, especially if both sides are respectful and treat each other like gentlemen. That’s how, not long after I moved to town, I became friends with Cloquet’s No. 1 Gentleman, David Johnson, who passed away this week. I was working for the Newby law firm and was assigne...
Thursday, Jan. 6 Girls Basketball Cloquet-66 Esko-61 Cromwell-Wright-87 ML/WR-29 Boys basketball Cherry-80 Wrenshall-38 South Ridge-78 Littlefork-43 Boys Hockey CEC-3 Brainerd-2 Friday, Jan. 7 Girls Basketball Barnum-71 Silver Bay-27 Cloquet-67 Crosby-Ironton-61 Hope Academy-56 FDL-40 Boys basketball Esko-82 Breckenridge-58 Wrenshall-55 Cook County-48 Barnum-75 Silver Bay-46 South Ridge-66 Carlton-52 Cromwell-Wright-63 ML/WR-62 Hope Academy-88 FDL-73 Boys Hockey Stillwater-6 CEC-1 Saturday, Jan. 8 Boys basketball Perham-69 Esko-57 Duluth...
