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It took the 60th and final game of the season at home for the Minnesota Wilderness to clinch a playoff berth in the North American Hockey League playoffs Saturday. After dropping a 7-2 decision on the road to the Chippewa Steel on Friday night, the Wilderness were in a must-win situation on Saturday at home. The Wilderness needed overtime, but eventually found a way to win 2-1 and finish as the fourth and final playoff team in the Midwest Division. "Going into the weekend, if we had won both...
Nobody in the last three years has shot more hoops in the Cloquet and Fond du Lac area than Cloquet senior Conner Barney. Barney's high school career ended with Cloquet losing to Hibbing in the sectional tournament in March, but his mark on the region could be felt for many years to come. He wants to improve himself but also share his love of basketball and positive actions with youth and others. His basketball legacy is as follows: two years at Fond du Lac Ojibwe High School with 1200 points sc...
The Cloquet-Esko-Carlton boys tennis team has struggled against rain and snow to sneak in some playing time this spring, postponing four of the first six matches because of bad weather. With 29 athletes out for the team this season, coach Derek Johnson is anticipating an exciting season. CEC will sport six seniors, one junior, one sophomore, three freshmen and the rest of the squad is made up of seventh- and eighth-graders. "We have six returning letter winners from last year," Johnson said....
Former Cloquet-Esko-Carlton hockey player Karson Kuhlman picked up his first goal for his new team, the Seattle Kraken of the National Hockey League, on April 9. Kuhlman was picked up in January, after being put on waivers by the Boston Bruins, and almost immediately injured. But he's healthy now. The situation in Seattle for Kuhlman is a better one for him since he will now have an opportunity to be in the lineup on an everyday basis, compared to his time with the Bruins. On April 9, Kuhlman...
It was a love affair. It's the only way to describe how people from Cloquet and the surrounding communities embraced the 1963 Cloquet High School boys basketball team. Basketball was king in Minnesota and especially the region then. It was before the hockey barn was built, Pine Valley was a relatively new ski facility, there wasn't girls' sports, there were no cellphones or ESPN, so it meant there were a lot of people going to local gyms on Friday and Tuesday evenings to get a sports rush. Cloqu...
The last couple of days of April I’m scheduled to be chasing cohos and browns on Chequamegon Bay out of Washburn, Wisconsin. If you have spent any time outside the last couple of weeks, you will recognize the potential problem — we may still be iced up. In fact, the marina dockmaster recently reported 48 inches of ice in the harbor! This spring is shaping up to be one of the coldest in recent memory. But it’s not all doom and gloom — the late spring could have a positive impact on area fishing...
Cloquet High School Quarter 3 A HONOR ROLL Grade 9 Rizal Agaton-Howes Gage Allen Diamond Allen-Lovejoy Owen Anderson Ahnna Bader William Bauer Johanna Bernu Sarah Blais Joshua Bleskacek Ellise Boyd-Affias Kaia Boyd-Affias Sofia Breuer Madison Correll Cadence Dillon Mirianna Dohse Brody Dushkin Clare French Nikolas Gentilini Julie Golen Shealee Gunderson Natalie Halling Natalie Hautajarvi Natalia Hernandez Riley Hillman Jean Hurd Nicholas Janke Sophia Johnson Allie Jones Erin Keating Ella Kolenda Addison Kozelouzek Michael Kruse Brijette LaCore...
Lynn (Jones) Prosen, a 1992 Cloquet graduate, was awarded the 2022 National Science Teaching Association’s Corteva Excellence in Agricultural Science Education Award. The award recognizes excellence and innovation in the field of agricultural science education. Prosen told the Pine Knot that she was inspired by St. Scholastica professor Dr. Donna Schroeder when she was working on her biology degree. “I was a TA for her and the idea of helping others to learn science and be able to understand thi...
The 2022 Minnesota Teacher of the Year will be chosen from a group of 11 teachers from across the state who have been named finalists in the program, including a teacher from Moose Lake. Bradley Hubred teaches fifth and sixth grade science at Moose Lake Community Schools. Out of 77 total candidates this year, an independent selection panel of 22 leaders in the areas of education, business, government and nonprofits selected the finalists from a group of 25 semifinalists. The selection panel meets again April 30 to conduct individual interviews...
The Friends of Brad Memorial Foundation announces its annual music scholarship opportunity. Two $1000 scholarships are available for students in the region who plan to pursue music in college. “Art and music are critical components of life. They help humans persevere during difficult times, like during the pandemic,” said Troy Rogers, the foundation president. “It’s always important to cultivate and encourage the next generation of musicians, but maybe even more so right now.” Friends of Brad was created in 2010 to honor the memory of Bradle...
As I sit down to write this week’s news, it’s snowing — again. When will this winter weather end? I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. And now, as of Monday morning, I see we must have gotten over 6 inches of the white stuff. Our sincere sympathy to the family of Lincoln Hansen, who passed away at the Villa Vista in Cromwell. Funeral arrangements are pending. More than 30 members of the Young Old Timers met for the annual Easter dinner and get-together on April 12 at the Cromwell Pavilio...
The case of an injured Wrenshall man found trying to flag down cars April 10 on northbound Interstate 35 between Midway Road and the Proctor exit turns out to be related to a drug deal that never transpired, the criminal complaint states. The alleged shooter in the case is Esko resident Austin James Webster, 39, who appeared in St. Louis County Sixth District Court Friday, April 15, charged with second- degree assault and felon in possession of a firearm. Webster, who has several drug-related convictions in the past 12 years, including four as...
Earlier this month, many area churches and nonprofit organizations came together to sponsor a concert at Common Ground Coffee Bar & Deli with national recording artist Remedy Drive. For the last eight years, the alternative rock band has been using music to shine a light on human trafficking by helping fund the nonprofit The Exodus Road with more than $500,000 in donations. The April 6 event was hosted and promoted by Kingdom Builders Ministries, who hopes to host more of these community action...
Delores Hilda (Selen) Wolner, 96, of Cloquet went to be with the Lord on Dec. 28, 2021, dying from natural causes. She lived her later years at Inter-faith Care Center in Carlton. Dee was born on May 15, 1925, on her family's farm in Blackhoof Township to Wallace J. Selen and Julia M. (Bentfield) Selen. They moved to Cloquet during the Great Depression and Dee graduated from Cloquet High School in 1943. She then worked in administrative roles for the Duluth News Tribune, Consolidated Abstract,...
