A hometown newspaper with a local office, local owners & lots of local news
A hometown newspaper with a local office, local owners & lots of local news
Sorted by date Results 26 - 37 of 37
What do you get when you play softball in the snow? Snoftball! The first annual KBM Snoftball Tournament is scheduled for Saturday, March 2, starting at 9 a.m. at Cloquet’s Braun Park. Up to 20 teams can register for this unique softball experience. Registration is $150 per team and each team must have at least one female. “It’s a one-pitch tournament, you’re either out or on base,” said Bruce Matuszak, one of the organizers. “There also will be an inning of something a little different, like running bases in the wrong direction or hitting wit...
A Wright man is facing charges of criminal sexual conduct with juveniles. Robert Laurence Besch, 48, was charged with two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in Carlton County District Court on Feb. 7. According to the criminal complaint, the mother of two juveniles reported that they told her on Feb. 1 they had been sexually assaulted on more than one occasion by Besch. On Feb. 4, First Witness Child Advocacy Center conducted forensic interviews with the two victims, who both...
Due to the heavy snow load and impassable roads, the Cloquet Area Golden K Kiwanis Club has been forced to cancel this weekend’s Kiwanis Last Chance ice fishing contest Saturday, Feb. 23. “We’ll see you next year,” said Kiwanis member Mary Lukkarila, expressing thanks to all the sponsors....
On Feb. 6, three individuals were arrested in Twin Lakes Township for extensive damage to various vehicles at a pipeline job site. Shawn Etsitty, Edgar Morelos Pelayo, and Harvey Goodsky were each charged with felony first-degree criminal damage to property by the Carlton County Attorney's Office for $25,000 in estimated damages. According to the criminal complaint, law enforcement was dispatched early in the morning to the pipeline job site on County Road 61 when security guards reported...
Raise your hand if your mom’s dead. Raise your other if your dad is, too. Raise whatever other appendage you can if you’ve got dead parents with whom you wish you could have a few more words, a few more moments. Raise your ire if your dead parents raise your ire. One morning, when I was 17 and full of zits and quasi-confidence and a lacking reality thereof, when my posse lingered in my kitchen, awaiting the trek to the high school, my pinnacle almost met, my younger brother’s yet to rise, the v...
There’s a reason why Minnesota has advanced so many presidential candidates over the years. Some, like Eugene McCarthy and Harold Stassen, ran so often they lost credibility. Others, like Tim Pawlenty and Michelle Bachman never really had a chance, although Tim Pawlenty might have been a decent president. And two others actually came pretty close to the presidency: Hubert Humphrey in 1968 (he lost by less than 1 percent of the popular vote) and Walter Mondale (well, 59 percent to 41 percent isn...
It is very important that the Carlton school district community, parents, caregivers, staff and students know the facts about the most recent communications with the Wrenshall school board regarding the possibility of our school districts consolidating. The Carlton school board has consistently supported, and continues to support, a consolidation plan with Wrenshall that improves opportunities for students and financial stability for taxpayers. However, it would be shortsighted and irresponsible to consolidate just for the sake of...
William James Singpiel, 57, of Cloquet, Minn. lost his battle with early onset frontotemporal dementia Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019 in New Perspective Assisted Living with his loving family and friends by his side. He was born Oct. 11, 1961 in Cloquet to Wayne and Audrey (Hella) Singpiel. Bill graduated from Cloquet High School in 1980. He married Nancy Dummer on Aug. 18, 1984 and they made their home in Duluth. He received his bachelor's degree in physical therapy from the College of St. Scholastica...
Community Memorial Hospital in Cloquet is pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Charles Kendall to its staff. Dr. Kendall is a family medicine physician and will divide his time between seeing patients in the new Family Clinic located at the hospital, and serving as a member of the Hospitalist Program. Dr. Kendall received his medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, and completed his residency at the Duluth Family Practice program. Prior to joining Community...
We had been making steady progress on the battle with tobacco use. It has been a long fight with many victories over the years. Each victory brought our community closer to lowering the use of tobacco. From the early days of the surgeon general issuing warnings and the elimination of much of the advertising and marketing of tobacco, to the more recent elimination of smoking in bars and restaurants, we have been moving forward to a healthier community. All of these changes have resulted in a...
I’m not really into NASCAR that much but I do follow Denny Hamlin in his FedEx race car, and this weekend he won the Daytona 500. I follow him because he drives the FedEx car and our family and friends play the “FedEx game” whenever we are out on the highways. It all started more than 10 years ago when I was spending a lot of time helping a friend interview for jobs and, as the miles and miles got pretty boring after a time, we started spotting FedEx trucks and giving each other points for e...
It's a good year to be a snow sculptor in Minnesota. Tim Young Sr. is proof of that, as the Cloquet resident has been busy making art out of massive piles of snow for a couple months now. His most recent project was basically a 3D snow billboard, advertising the County Seat Theater's opening show, "The Great Nursing Home Escape." Every single character is represented on the sculpture, which is block-shaped with painted cartoonish figures emerging in relief from the front and sides. Young said...
