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Carlton crowned Sawyer Thorman and Brynne Mickle as homecoming king and queen following Friday's home basketball game. Members of the court include Ava Bujold Grondahl, Ben Soderstrom, Isabella Beaupre Anderson, Austin Davis, Alaina Bennett, Tanner Anderson, Kaylee Asleson and Matthew Santkuyl. Photo contributed by Leola Rodd...
Thursday, Feb. 20 Boys Basketball Cherry-86 Wrenshall-72 Randy Wimmer poured in 26 points and Hunter Holmes added 20 for the Wrens, but it wasn’t enough to overcome the Tigers nine-point halftime lead. Also scoring for Wrenshall were Austin Larva (11), Kaden Oleson (5), Isaiah Johnson (4), plus Zeke Rousseau and Mason Perry (3). South Ridge-66 Hill City-43 The Panthers rolled out to a 30-18 halftime lead and put the hammer down in the second half to come away with a 23-point win. Ben Wood led a...
The Cardinals girls basketball team is poised to make a deep run into the 2020 girls section playoffs as action begins this week. Cromwell-Wright has been one of the top teams in Class A over the past half dozen years and are, once again, the top seed in the Section 7A playoffs. Last season the Cardinals fell in the section title game to Mountain Iron Buhl. This season only two losses have prevented the Cardinals from an unbeaten regular season. Entering the playoff the Cards are 24-2 with the...
The Cloquet-Esko- Carlton wrestling team wrapped up its season at the individual section tournament Feb. 22 in Mora. CEC had four place-winners but were unable to place a wrestler in the top two to qualify for the state tournament. This year's wrestling team consisted of five seniors: Griffin Fjeld (132-pound weight class), Jordan Allen (145-pound class) and Zeb Wehr (152-pound class), while 138-pounder Tyler Harms-Synkiew was injured and could not compete this season and 160-pounder Sam...
With only 12 games remaining in the regular season schedule, the Minnesota Wilderness are hoping for a last season push to put themselves into the Central Division playoffs and the battle for the Robertson Cup. The Cloquet-based North American Hockey League team is coming off a weekend split with Bismarck, along with a road victory over St. Cloud on Thursday night. The Wilderness are 2-3 in their last five games. With only four of their last 12 games of the season against divisional opponents,...
In a season where they set a school record for wins and ended as the runners-up in the Minnesota State Class A Girls Hockey Tournament, the Cloquet-Esko-Carlton Lumberjacks found themselves in rarified air in the awards department. Following the loss in the championship game, three CEC players were named to the All-Tournament Team, their coach was named Coach of the Year, and one of their players was the Herb Brooks Award winner. Named to the All-Tournament Team were senior forward and captain...
The bitter northeast wind relentlessly reshaped the landscape, shifting and sculpting dunes of snow across the expanse of the lake. I pulled hard against the heavy door separating me and my warmth from the tempest outside. This would be one of the last Sunday mornings of the spearing season, and I was settled in for the long haul. My portable heater hummed on high over my left shoulder. Its orange glow radiated against the darkened walls of the spear shack. Stripped down to a flannel shirt, I...
Married for 38 years, it was a bit of a surprise when my spouse told me that I should go and learn more about the birds and the bees - bees in particular. So, I attended the Northeast Minnesota Bee Association's fifth annual winter seminar Feb. 15, co-hosted by the Environmental Institute at the Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College. Courtney Kowalczak, institute director, met me at the seminar entrance at the college. I must have had that bee-in-the-headlight look, but I told her I was from...
To help prevent the spread of chronic wasting disease, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is adjusting bans on the feeding of deer in certain parts of the state. Early this week, Carlton County was added to the DNR’s list of counties where deer feeding is banned. The DNR expanded bans in central Minnesota starting Monday due to additional discoveries of chronic wasting disease in captive deer in late 2019. New counties included with Carlton in the deer feeding ban are: Chisago, Douglas, Isanti, Kanabec, Pine and Pope. The deer f...
Cigarette butts. Propane canisters. Cans, bags and bottles – some full of human waste. Blocking materials. Fish carcasses. Those are some of the items that make up the long list of litter conservation officers have found out on the ice. Litter is an issue throughout the ice fishing season, but it tends to be particularly problematic as the deadlines for removing fish houses from lakes loom. Shelters must be removed from inland waters in the southern two-thirds of the state by midnight on M...
