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Albert "Pete" W. White, 84, of Carlton, Minn. passed away Tuesday, April 23, 2019 at Inter-Faith Care Center. He was born Aug. 10, 1934 in Cloquet, Minn. to Alfred and Edna (Larson) White and graduated from Cloquet High School. Pete served in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Germany for 18 months. He was united in marriage to Marjorie Zimmerman on April 27, 1957 in Cloquet. Pete worked for 46 years for the Wood Conversion Co., the Conwed Corporation and USG Interiors. After his retirement,...
There is exciting news in both the fine and industrial arts this past week. Wrenshall High School senior Jared Kelley was awarded the opportunity to sign on with the Carpenter’s Training Institute in Hermantown. Ray Riihiluoma Construction will be sponsoring Jared for a four-year program with no tuition costs. The Carpenters Union Local 361 under the direction of Adam Johnson and Matt Camparaio offered the program to Wrenshall students, and Kelley is the first to sign on upon the r...
Summer must be on its way! How do I know? Well, the first Wrong Days in Wright meeting was held at Kalli’s in Wright on Monday, April 22. The planning committee is comprised of chairperson Linda Kalli, treasurer Leslie Hutar and committee members Darci Dahl, Faith Nyberg, and Jennie K. Hanson. Others who were not able to attend are Jake Kachinske, Rick Gresczyk, Mike Davis (buttons), and Minettie Juhl. Wrong Days will be held July 19-21 this year. It is always on the third Saturday of July, a...
Mildred “Milly” Schneider, 83, of Cloquet, Minn. passed on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019. Visitation: 10 a.m. Saturday, May 4 until the 11 a.m. Memorial Mass in Queen of Peace Catholic Church. Inurnment will be in New Calvary Cemetery in Cloquet. Arrangements by Nelson Funeral Care. _________________________________ Clarice M. Ferguson passed with family by her side on Friday, April 26, 2019. Services were held Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at Nelson Funeral Care. A second service will be held in Breckenridge, Minn. at the Joseph Vertin & Sons Funeral Hom...
Today there is a resurgence of interest in making useful, handmade items from scraps. We call it “repurposing.” In Sweden, it is called “luffarslöjd.” Artist and maker Faith Clover will be visiting the Cloquet Public Library at 6 p.m. Friday, May 10 to show some examples of luffarslöjd. Participants will be able to try out the craft by making a hook or two from wire. Traditionally, items were made out of scrap wire people had around their farms and homes. Please register for this event by...
And then there were six. Over the course of a nearly three-hour working session Monday, Carlton School Board members narrowed down a list of possible long-term options for the school district from 10 to six. After a couple months of long meetings with little progress, it was a Herculean achievement. To start, Carlton board chair LaRae Lehto presented the board with strict rules of engagement, asking that each board member take turns and share his or her top four or five options with minimal...
You can fake a lot of things in life, but you can't fake showing up - for yourself or for others. "Showing up" is not a matter of being, it is a matter of doing. Volunteer Rick Ramey knows what it means to show up, noting that he has volunteered for as long as he can remember. When asked why, he simply replies, "It's just part of who I am." When Ramey and his wife moved to Carlton County, he began volunteering as a tutor in the Moose Lake schools and as a Medicare counselor. More recently, he...
Early in April it looked like Mother Nature was going to provide the kind of spring we have not seen for a while, where Northland sports teams could play a full and normal schedule. As we all know, Mother Nature didn't cooperate with the hopes of local sports teams - the Cloquet baseball team has been no exception. With seven games either postponed or canceled thus far this season, the Lumberjacks were able to get in two games without canceling or rescheduling. Last Friday the 'Jacks were at...
The Cloquet boys golf team finally got to play in its first meet of the season last weekend and played very well - with a top-three individual finisher and a fourth-place team finish - despite a lack of practice time due to poor weather. The Lumberjacks team finished fourth out of 18 teams overall in the two-day Grand Slam Invitational, which was played at Pokegama Golf Course in Grand Rapids Friday, April 26, and at Eagles Ridge Golf Course in Coleraine Saturday, April 27. Moorhead won the...
At six wins and zero losses, the Carlton softball team is steaming through the season, at least as often as the weather allows. The Bulldogs beat Cromwell-Wright 16-1 Tuesday, a game that ended in the fourth inning since Carlton was 15 runs ahead in a cold game at Chub Lake. Carlton Coach Melissa Clark credited a strong junior class with leading the team. "They're a very athletic bunch, and a lot of them have been starting for me since they were in the eighth grade," said Clark, in her fourth...
THURSDAY, APRIL 25 BARNUM-12 (6-innings) TWO HARBORS- 1 The Bombers rode the strong pitching of Isaac Golen who pitched three innings and did not give up a hit. Max Salzer was stellar at the plate with a 2-for-4 effort and an RBI. Conner Buell added a double and twos hits and Gavin John also collected two hits with a pair of RBIs. Golen helped his own cause at the plate with a 2-for-5 effort and an RBI. CARLTON-11 (5-innings) FLOODWOOD-0 Kris Herman was huge on the mound for the Bulldogs by striking out 12 Polar Bears and only allowing two...
TUESDAY, APRIL 30 Esko-7 Moose Lake-Willow River-4 The Eskomos rallied from a 4-2 deficit in picking up the road win on Tuesday. Esko scored a single run in the top of the fifth and then, trailing 4-3 entering the seventh inning, the Eskomos put up four runs against the Rebels to gain the victory. Miranda Kelley picked up the pitching win,giving up just two earned runs and then helped her own cause by bashing out a triple in the seventh inning that scored two runs. Kaitlyn Bergerson doubled, Zoie Johnson had two hits and Jayden Karppinen also f...
September through April, a group of regional male retirees get together at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Cloquet on Friday mornings to try their hand at dartball. Players ranging in age from their late 50s to their late 90s continue to play week after week and year after year, with the league now decades old. The Cloquet league is very informal, with teams chosen randomly each week, which means a new champion each week too. "That's two weeks in a row of my team winning all three games," said 9...
The feedback I receive on my angling articles covers the spectrum. Most people appreciate my stories along with the technical information I share. Others enjoy my articles, but the minutiae of specific techniques can be hard to follow. It’s a good reminder angling doesn’t always have to be overly complicated. With the Minnesota fishing opener fast approaching, this week I will focus on Angling 101. I will discuss species, locations and simple methods for angling success. The first decision is...
It’s been a feast-or-famine type of week for the Lumberjacks softball team. Averaging more than 10 runs per game, the team faced a scoring famine when beaten by Hermantown 6-0 last Friday, then feasted on Ashland, pitching to the tune of 24 runs in just four innings of play. As the home team, Cloquet actually scored 24 runs in three at-bats as the game ended on a mercy rule after the top of the fourth inning. Hermantown-6 Cloquet-0 A much anticipated softball matchup between two teams who are e...
Wow, what an April, lots of snow and a ton of maple sap. Just as Twins fans remember 1991, ricers remember that great crop with no rice worms, and skiers remember the year of perfect snow, I will remember 2019 as a great year of maple sap flow. This season of tapping maple trees was blessed with the perfect combination of freezing nights and above freezing days lasting for a few weeks, at least where I was tapping. I had a ball, snowshoeing with a sled the first part of the season and ending up...
"April is the cruelest month," T. S. Elliot penned in his masterpiece, "Four Quartets." When I moved back to Minnesota in 1999, my brother warned me that November, March and April were the worst for outdoors lovers. But I've found my consolations: ice skating and trail clearing in November and spring cross-country skiing in March and April. April is the month that great birding commences. Northwestern Carlton County hosts wonderful viewing sites during April waterfowl and May warbler and...
More than 300 dads and daughters put on their finest dancing duds and headed to the 12th annual REACH father-daughter ball Saturday, April 27. There was plenty of glitter at the "Diamonds and Rhinestones" themed event, which moved to the Black Bear Casino and Resort's Otter Creek Center for the first time after being held in the Cloquet High School gym for years. REACH executive director Dakota Koski said the new venue was excellent. "From the acoustics, the extra space, elegant look, etc. it...
