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The Floy Gilman Scheidler Scholarship Foundation provides scholarships to residents of Carlton County who are pursuing a post high school education. The Foundation was established in 1999 by former Esko High School English teacher Floy Dickison and her sister, Ona Scheidler, a former Cloquet High School business teacher. They established the foundation in honor of their mother, Floy Gilman Scheidler. Applicants must be residents of Carlton County and must have maintained a 3.0 GPA and been in the top 50 percent of their graduating class....
Carlton County girls basketball rivals took to the hard court last Thursday as the host Cromwell-Wright downed Barnum 60-33. "We were able to rush out to a 17-0 lead, and then cruised from there," said Cardinals coach Jeff Gronner. "We did have our season-high in turnovers though, and that is something we need to clean up." The big two in scoring for the Cardinals were Sascha Korpela and Natalee Hakamaki. The junior duo scored 19 and 16 points, respectively, in leading Cromwell-Wright to the...
Thursday, Feb. 4 Boys hockey CEC-6 Duluth Marshall-0 Boys Basketball Hibbing-93 Cloquet-41 Girls Basketball McGregor-61 Wrenshall-52 Cromwell-Wright-60 Barnum-33 Floodwood-40 Carlton-39 Esko-64 South Ridge-42 Friday, Feb. 5 Girls Basketball Cook County-70 Barnum-55 Boys Basketball Wrenshall-70 McGregor-52 Barnum-61 Cook County-25 Esko-73 South Ridge-42 Moose Lake/ Willow River-92 Two Harbors-47 Saturday, Feb. 6 Girls Basketball Grand Rapids-60 Cloquet-44 Monday, Feb. 8 Girls Hockey CEC-7 Superior-1 Girls Basketball South Ridge-59 Chisholm-55...
For the Cloquet-Esko-Carlton wrestling team, success this season will be measured in different ways for every athlete. Because the Lumberjacks have only about 15 wrestlers to spread across 14 different weight classes - and many of them similar in weight - it's tough to focus on more conventional goals. On any given night CEC is giving away about 40 points because they have empty weight classes, making it impossible for them to win a match. "Because of that we have to set realistic goals for our...
Mprnews.org The Minnesota State High School League Board of Directors on Thursday approved a tentative plan for winter state tournaments, with many of those events being held several weeks later than usual to end the pandemic-affected season. Among the changes, state quarterfinals for high school hockey and basketball will take place in the last week of March. Boys and girls hockey semifinals and championship games will be held at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul on April 1-3. Boys and girls basketball semifinals and title games will be...
In my many years of coaching, I’ve heard some great unrehearsed lines from our local young athletes. My coaching officially started while I was in college at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Jerry Erickson was Cloquet’s varsity boys basketball coach and asked me to coach fifth- and sixth-grade boys at Washington Elementary. He also took me to a few coaching clinics and had an outline of potential practice drills and schedules. I felt prepared. But some things you just can’t predict, and i...
With indoor venues closed for several months, my outdoor companion, Keith, and I have ramped up our birdwatching adventures. We have noticed an increase in birders as others flock to the northeast region of the state seeking the secret spots where others have recorded great sightings. We have been birding casually for several years, driving and gawking around the region. The great gray owl is a fun find, and we count on seeing at least one every winter when they are easier to spot in leafless...
We're in a deep freeze. It's beautiful: a bit windy, but gloriously sunny with ample snow. Yet not snowbound. This stretch is a skier, skater and morning walker's heaven. Walking this Tuesday morning with my neighbor and long-time walking partner June Collman, we compared notes on preparation. Suiting up is a process. Thick handknit wool socks, woven legwarmers, two pairs of long johns, snow pants. Bog boots or hiking boots. A thick pair of mittens covered by mitts, and a third inner layer of...
When Sunday school students see beyond the superficial details of the story of Adam and Eve, they begin to reflect on the reality of sin. A typical response appeals to their sense of justice. “Well, that’s not fair,” they will say. They understand the presence of so much violence, selfishness, corruption, stupidity and cruelty in the world, but they are not satisfied with the cause. After all, we weren’t the ones in the garden disobeying God, why do we have to suffer the consequences? In trying to find a solution to the problem, the questio...
Correction: This is the Quarter 1 Honor Roll, but was originally posted as Quarter 2. Quarter 2 will be posted as soon as it is available. We apologize for the error. Cloquet High School Quarter 1 A HONOR ROLL Grade 9 Elexis Anderson Drew Angell Madyson Babineau Joseph Bailey David Baker Hannah Bastien Owen Brenner LeeAna Burley Ava Carlson Elise Cawcutt Ella Chartier Quinn Danielson Macy Dearborn Kiana DeFoe Emmie Doesken Ethan Doty Madison Fredrickson Anders Gunelson Riley Hall Isaac Hill Makenna Horvat Kiley Issendorf Eli Jazdzewski Kloey...
FDLTCC Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College in Cloquet announced that 145 students attending the college last fall earned dean’s list honors for the semester. Here is a list of students from the area who made the list: • Barnum: Christen Klejeski, Abigail Mickle, Brittney Nelson • Brookston: Autumn Pesonen, Kelsey Warner • Carlton: Elijah Blue, Alisha Broneak, Saydee Clemens, Annabeth Johnson, Johnette Ostlund, Sierra Rustom • Cloquet: Ahna Anderson, Hailey Anderson, Peggy Armstrong, Jesse Bahen, Jessica Benson, Shantell Berglund,...
Like many Americans this past Sunday, I celebrated the largest sporting event of the year by eating my fair share of avocado. I realized it might be a fun science project for my kids and me to watch the pits sprout in water. After just one day, the skins had already cracked. I have them sitting on my windowsill and we check to see the progress every morning. The word of the day in my mother's kindergarten class on Tuesday was "seed" so there have been a couple new additions to the windowsill: A...
Cromwell mayor Sharon Zelazny asked me to pass along information about the Highway 210 project. The timeline for the project has changed. Testing in the area last fall revealed the need for some design changes. Instead of an early bid date, the project will be let in June since the secured project funding is for the 2021 fiscal year. Preliminary work is being done. The construction through town will start in the spring of 2022 with the goal of completing it in one season. Mayor Zelazny said...
A former Carlton teacher and girls basketball coach was sentenced Friday to 33 months in Minnesota state prison for criminal sexual conduct charges stemming from a sexual relationship with a student athlete nearly 20 years ago. Robert Kent Pioro, 63, pleaded guilty and was sentenced for four counts of felony third-degree criminal sexual conduct for engaging in sexual penetration with a person who was 16 years old when he was in a position of authority over the victim. The guilty pleas were the result of deals with both Carlton County and St....
A federal judge says Enbridge Energy can proceed with construction on its contentious Line 3 oil pipeline, less than a week after a state appellate court panel also denied a request from Minnesota tribes and environmental groups to temporarily block work on the project. The Red Lake Band of Chippewa, White Earth Band of Ojibwe, the Sierra Club, and the Native American-led environmental group Honor the Earth filed suit in federal court in December, seeking to overturn a key permit issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. At the same time,... 
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The city of Moose Lake lost power to homes and businesses on Monday during subzero temperatures. According to information released by city officials, there was an explosion in a regulator at the north substation at 7:20 p.m. The Moose Lake police and fire departments responded. “The fire was almost out when we got there,” said Moose Lake fire chief Jim Michalski. There were no injuries. He said a regulator across the street from the plant exploded. A warming shelter was opened at the Moose Lake Community School for those who had lost their sou...
Robert “Bob” James Peters, 88 of Cloquet died on Feb. 11, 2021 at Inter-Faith Care Center in Carlton. He was born on Nov. 26, 1932 to Albert and Tyna (Sipola) Peters in Cloquet. Bob married Donna Fagre on June 28, 1952 in Cloquet. He was a U.S. Army veteran, serving 1953 to 1955. Bob returned home and was employed as a journeyman pipefitter for Johnson Controls for 36½ years. He was a member of the Carl Anderson American Legion Post 262, the Hebert-Kennedy VFW Post 3979, and the Eagles Club...
Wrenshall High School Quarter 2 A HONOR ROLL Natylee Anderson Connar Ankrum Patrick Ankrum Liam Bruce Lillian Eckdahl Sage Fernquist Mason Goetz Brooke Kent Elliana Lattu Ryan Mattson Alex Murray Samantha Nyberg Paige Olson Isaias Padilla Camden Peterson Owen Resberg Isabel Riley Jack Riley Zeke Rousseau-Sheff Molly Sheda Janae Sjodin Magdalene Sowada Kaya Stark Birk Stensaas Alexis Swanson Nadia Tessier Eli Twedt Rilee Wolfe B Honor Roll Joshua Anderson Bruddy Axtell Bryce Bartczak Gavin...
Cromwell- Wright High School Semester 1 A HONOR ROLL Grade 12 Justin Aho Eliana Anderson Daniel Belden Daniele Butera Brandi Collman Elisabeth Kachinske Andrew Kosloski Aiden Lehti Katherine Libbon Grade 11 Jacob Anderson Scarlett Korpela Alaina Lind Jay Olesiak Andrea Pocernich Zevvus Smith Chandell Warner Michael Zoeller Grade 10 Angela Dilly Noah Riley Foster Isaac King Sascha Korpela Jacob Measner Steven Ridlon Payton Rosbacka Liam Schoenberg Payton Smith Nika Tkachenko Grade 9 Elliott...
I was sad when I learned that baseball legend Henry Aaron had passed away. He was one of my favorite baseball heroes from the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. I read now and am reminded of the terrible discrimination he faced his entire life. His death occurring near Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the Presidential Inauguration just heightened the awareness and challenges facing all of us and the need for social change. Aaron grew up in the Deep South in Mobile, Alabama. He was 86, so his roots go back...
Michael John Hagen, 69, of Roseville, Minnesota, formerly of Cloquet, Minnesota, passed away on Friday, Feb. 12, 2021 at United Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota. Michael was born on Dec. 18, 1951 in Cloquet to Maurice and Virginia Hagen. The Cloquet High School Class of 1969 graduate worked for LCS Coaches, Greyhound bus lines and managed multiple apartment complexes in the Twin Cities. Michael enjoyed visiting state parks, especially Jay Cooke State Park in Carlton. He loved kayaking at Split...
James Marvin Sunnarborg, 88, of Esko passed away Feb. 11, 2021 in his home with his loving family by his side. Visitation: 12 p.m. until the 2 p.m. funeral service Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021 in the Atkins Northland Funeral Home, 801 14th St., Cloquet. Military Honors accorded by the Cloquet Combined Honor Guard. Burial will be in the spring in Apostolic Lutheran Cemetery in Esko. Masks and social distancing are required. From the funeral home parking lot, the funeral can be heard on FM 98.3. A video of the service will be available on the funeral...
Leo LeRoy Dahlberg, 86, of Cromwell passed away Feb. 13, 2021 in Villa Vista Care Center in Cromwell. He was born March 1, 1934 in Bigfork to Roy and Marie Dahlberg. Leo grew up in Effie and graduated from Bigfork High School in 1952. He married Marie Groth in 1956. Leo joined the Army and served until 1958. After his discharge, they made their home in Minneapolis, where Leo worked in construction as a heavy equipment operator, operating both dozers and cranes. In 1963 they moved to Wright and p...
