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First, you experience great surprise, and then awe, as you see a child springing into the air, turning, flipping, and landing on their feet. Next, an involuntary "Wow!" springs from your own throat. Finally, you see how much fun these kids are having, and how happy they are to be doing gymnastics with their friends. Mary Lee Jensen, known as just "Mary Lee" to those familiar with local gymnastics, has been touching the lives of area kids and parents for 60 years. And yes, she started her...
Nerstrand Meats and Catering of Nerstrand, Minnesota, is voluntarily recalling three jerky-style meat products that may have become adulterated due to improper processing. Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) inspectors discovered the processing deviation during a routine inspection. The MDA and the company have not received any reports of adverse reactions or illness due to consumption of this product. The Nerstrand Meats and Catering products subject to this recall are Regular Beef Strips, Cajun Beef Strips, and Smoked Turkey Strips...
Ronald “Tony” A. Burggraff, 83, of Cloquet, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019 at Essentia St. Mary’s Medical Center in Duluth. He was born Dec. 5, 1935 in Cloquet to Anton and Elleanor (Klister) Burggraff. Tony graduated from Cloquet High School in 1953 and was united in marriage to Alice Gallea on June 2, 1956 at St. Casimir’s Catholic Church. He worked as a welder for the Potlatch Corporation, retiring in 1994. Tony was a member of Queen of Peace Catholic Church, Knights of Columbus Bishop...
Marjorie J. Reed, 98, of Cloquet, Minnesota passed away Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 at Evergreen Knoll. She was born March 23, 1921 in Coleraine to Gust and Bernice (Hallstrom) Johnson. Marge grew up in Carlton and graduated from Carlton High School. She moved to Cloquet in 1950 and worked as a medical records secretary for Community Memorial Hospital for 23 years, retiring in 1983. She was very active all her life with numerous organizations including the KloKay BoKay Garden Club, Pine Needle Quilte...
Frances Marie (Gurneau) Ziebarth, 90, passed away peacefully Oct. 13, 2019 at Baptist Memorial Hospice in Memphis, Tennessee after a short illness. Fran, known as “Dolly” by many in her family, was born in Cloquet, Minnesota on Nov. 11, 1928, the first child of Frank and Sadie Gurneau. She was a proud Elder of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. Fran married Ken Ziebarth, a longtime high school teacher and counselor, during a snowstorm on Nov. 20, 1948. Their marriage welcomed six...
Mary Jo Stayton, 58, of Phoenix, formerly of Cromwell, died Monday, Oct. 28, 2019 in Banner University Medical Center, Tucson, Arizona. Mary Jo was born on Nov. 5, 1960 in St. Cloud. She graduated from Cromwell High School in 1978 and later attended Duluth Business College. Mary Jo moved to Pasadena, California and later moved to Phoenix. She was a resident of Phoenix since 1991 and worked at Bank of America for 25 years. She was preceded in death by her parents, Ed and Carroll Stayton, and beloved cat, Felix. Mary Jo is survived by two...
Daniel E. Summers, 65, of Esko passed away Monday, Nov. 4, 2019. He was born Aug. 1, 1954, in Duluth, the son of Jack and Beverly (Erickson) Summers. Dan graduated from Carlton High School in 1972 and then attended the University of Minnesota Duluth. He married Catherine Lolich at St. Agnes Catholic Church in Ashland, Wisconsin on June 14, 1980. Dan worked various jobs, mostly for 30 years at USG in Cloquet, retiring in 2016. He enjoyed bowhunting, fishing, gardening, oil and acrylic painting,...
Veterans Day in Cloquet All veterans and their loved ones are invited to a Veterans Day dinner at the Hebert Kennedy VFW Post 3979 at 210 Arch St. in Cloquet from 3-6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 11. The meal is free for veterans, and $10 for everyone else. Enjoy turkey, mashed potatoes and all the trimmings and gather together on this important day. Sponsored by American Legion Auxiliary Post 262 and the Cloquet VFW Auxiliary Post 3979. Veterans Day in Carlton Veterans will be honored at Carlton High School from 9-10 a.m. Monday in the large gym. All...
The Esko football team demolished Aitkin 41-14 earlier this season on the road in Aitkin, but winning proved more challenging last week in the Section 7AAA playoffs. In the end, however, the result was still an Esko victory as the Eskomos squeaked past with a 29-28 win. "Prior to the game when we talked to the team, we told them to be careful because Aitkin is a good football team and they were without one of their better players when we played them the first time," said Esko coach Scott Arntson...
Fans attending the Section 5 Nine-Man championship football game between South Ridge and McGregror were barely in their seats Friday afternoon when the fireworks started for the Panthers. South Ridge found the turf in Esko to their liking and bolted out to a 30-point first-quarter lead and ultimately cruised to a 57-20 rout of the Mercs. On the very first play from scrimmage, Connor Bushbaum raced 46 yards for a touchdown. It was the first of four touchdowns in the quarter for the junior...
The Moose Lake/Willow River football team is going back to the state football tournament for the 13th time in 14 years, as the Rebels knocked off Mesabi East last Thursday in the section 7AA championship game in Esko. Blake Juhl rushed for 169 yards and two touchdowns to pace the Rebels in the 36-8 victory over the Giants. Mason Olson also threw for 156 yards and a touchdown in the ML/WR win. Juhl started the scoring Thursday night on a 1-yard touchdown run; he also scored on the two-point...
As Cloquet senior runner Jesse Bahen crossed the finish line at the 2019 Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) state cross country meet, a feeling of contentment swept over him. "I just felt like euphoria," said Bahen. "It was a great feeling after the race." Bahen was among the seven runners from Cloquet who qualified as a team for the 2019 Class AA State Cross Country Meet Nov. 2 on the grounds of St. Olaf College in Northfield. He was also one of four seniors on a Cloquet team that...
After an impressive 3-1 win over Ely in the semifinals Wednesday, Oct. 30, the Carlton girls volleyball team fell by a 3-0 score in the Section 7A finals to Greenway Saturday afternoon. Against Ely, Taylor Nelson pounded down 18 kills in patrolling the net for the Bulldogs against the Timberwolves. The depth of talent for the Bulldogs in the 25-22, 25-12, 23-25, 25-18 win was evident in the numbers following the match. Brynne Mickle added 36-set assists in running the offense while Abby Mickle...
Going into last Wednesday’s Section 7AA semifinal match, the Eskomos knew they would have to find an answer to Proctor’s Sam Pogatchnik and Payton Rodberg. That proved to be a tough task. The strong-hitting duo combined for 43 kills as the Rails won 29-27, 30-32, 25-18 and 25-18. In taking the win, Proctor earned met North Branch, the defending state Class AA champions, in the Section 7 title game and lost. Perhaps one of the biggest keys to the semifinal match was the fact that the Rails too...
Cloquet sent two sophomore girls, Harmony Tracy and Amelia Allen, to Saturday's Minnesota Class AA Cross Country State Championships. The two had a successful season, despite it being Tracy's first year ever running cross country - she was a swimmer before - and Amelia Allen's first as a varsity runner. Allen described her first year of running cross country as "full-time." Tracy took 92nd place in Saturday's race in a time of 19:35.9, while Allen came in 141st in 20:21.1. "It's really exciting...
Cromwell-Wright eighth-grader Emaleigh Olesiak was the top Carlton County finisher at state, taking 30th place in a time of 19:45.7 in the girls race at the Minnesota MSHSL Class A Cross Country State Championships. A total of 175 runners finished the race. Cardinals freshman Noah Foster finished 117th in the boys race, in a time of 17:42:7. Like most other runners, Foster's time was slower at state versus his Section 7A time of 16:54.6. Olesiak's time was also a little slower than her section...
I spent most of the morning lost in thought. As always, I contemplated what direction a deer might appear and what I would have to do to make a good shot. I was also enamored with the lever action on my lap. I tried to imagine it new. Great-great-grandpa as a young man picking it up at a local store - maybe one like Oleson's mercantile on Little House on the Prairie? Or picking it out of a Sears and Roebuck, excited for its arrival. Did he hunt out of a stand? Did he make drives with his...
The Ward 3 voters in Cloquet (about 14 percent of them) have spoken. Following Tuesday's primary election, Chris Swanson and Uriah Wilkinson will advance to the special election in February for the Ward 3 Cloquet City Council seat. Ray Schow will not. Out of a possible 1,312 registered voters in Ward 3, Swanson received the most votes with 124. Wilkinson garnered 54 votes and Schow got seven. One ballot didn't count because the person voted for two candidates. Election judge John Cavanaugh said...
When Jack Thornton carried his wife Joyce over the threshold of their new home on Jan. 23, 1955, the newlyweds weren’t alone. A thousand people stood outside and cheered as they entered the two-bedroom, pre-fab house at 109 7th St. in Cloquet. It had been this way for a while, ever since the previous August when a story about the blind couple flashed on newswires and landed in every newspaper across the country. “We were well-known,” Joyce coyly said of all the attention. The new home was a gif...
Before the start of Monday's community planning session, all of the Cloquet School Board members and school administrators went home. That was deliberate, explained consultant Bruce Miles. "We want to make sure people feel completely comfortable and confident [in sharing their opinions]," he said. "The school board and admin team get the opportunity to make decisions about the school district all the time. This is your time." About 45 people attended the strategic planning session, which sought...
Cloquet High School grads Riley Into and Landon Langenbrunner are aiming to make it big in the music world, but they aren't taking what many consider the traditional route. They aren't playing bars or or college campuses or even raves - yet. In fact, the two musicians didn't even start by learning an instrument. That came later. "We picked up on instruments after the fact, more or less," said Into. "It was our love for the music that got us into this. Langenbrunner agreed, adding that they...
Photography was one way Cloquet area resident Mark Cline dealt with an enormous personal setback. As a 55-year-old married father, he received his first serious DSLR camera in 2007, shortly before his wife was killed in a gas explosion at their cabin. After three years of nursing his kids back to health, his corporate head hunting business never recovered. Two years ago, he moved here to be close to Lake Superior. When Cline found he could leave his boys for a while, he began walking his rural...
It’s that time of year again — with winter comes “winter parking” in Cloquet and Scanlon, which means no vehicles are allowed to be parked on the streets, alleys, boulevards, sidewalks or public grounds overnight from Nov. 1 through March 31. In Cloquet, that technically means parking is prohibited between the hours of midnight and 6 a.m.; in Scanlon it means between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. If you noticed any orange tickets tucked in car doors or windshield wipers this week, those were warnings issued by Cloquet police for vehicles in violation of th...
Winter is on its way. Around here, that also means Nordic ski and ski jumping season will be here soon as well — as soon as enough snow falls. Families who want to get involved in these winter sports are encouraged to join the Cloquet Ski Club, a non-profit, all volunteer group that operates out of Cloquet’s Pine Valley. This year’s registration is set for Nov. 19 and Nov. 21, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Pine Valley Ski Chalet, 1106 Olympic Drive (past the hockey shelters) in Cloquet. It’s $30 to join the club, which includes the cross country...
Minnesotans who rely on MinnesotaCare for affordable health care coverage should complete their annual renewal form by Dec. 15 to ensure coverage into the New Year. The Department of Human Services (DHS) has mailed MinnesotaCare renewal forms to more than 54,000 households throughout the state. These members must verify their continued eligibility for the health care program to continue their coverage in 2020. After members return the renewal form, DHS will notify them by mail if their coverage is renewed, if they need to provide additional...
