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Plenty of excitement, and smoke, was in the air and forests along University Road in Cloquet last week. On Wednesday, May 11, a contingent of 25 fire practitioners purposely burned 9.5 acres of the University of Minnesota’s Cloquet Forestry Center. The primary objective of the prescribed burn was to reintroduce fire as an ecological and cultural process to promote and maintain the center’s historically fire-dependent forest. “We brought fire back today, there hadn’t been fire here in … years...
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College marked its first in-person spring graduation ceremony since 2019 on Thursday, May 12. Sixty of the college's 126 graduates from fall 2021, spring 2022, and summer 2022 walked across the stage in the FDLTCC gym. Following two years of online graduation programs due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the gathering Thursday was a happy occasion for both staff and students. The ceremonies blended both graduation traditions, such as the playing of Pomp and...
The St. Louis River hit flood stage last weekend, quietly flowing over its banks at Scanlon before violently erupting through the Minnesota Power dam at Thomson/Carlton in dramatic fashion downstream. According to the National Weather Service, the river was expected to crest at 11 feet, 6 inches in Scanlon just after midnight Saturday, before falling below flood stage (10 feet, 6 inches) by early Wednesday, May 18. The weather service called it "moderate" flooding. Marcie Stohlberg, who owns...
Vincent “Bud” J. Schmidt, 91, of Cloquet passed away May 14, 2022, at Evergreen Knoll. He was born Nov. 29, 1930, in Sandstone, the son of Joseph and Emma (Trapp) Schmidt. He graduated from Sandstone High School in 1949. Bud was united in marriage to Lois Champeaux on Oct. 24, 1953, at Our Lady of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Cloquet. He started working at Northwest Paper in Cloquet on April 5, 1950, where he continued his career until retiring from the Potlatch Corporation. Bud served in...
Marion Patricia (Isaacks) Larsen, beloved wife, mother, sister, grandmother and great-grandmother, passed away peacefully Friday, May 6, 2022, after a brief battle with cancer. Marion, born Aug. 27, 1941, grew up in Independence, Missouri, a block away from longtime family friends President Harry and first lady Bess Truman. Her family moved to Minnesota when she was in the seventh grade, settling in White Bear Lake. There, she met Sheldon Larsen, whom she married in 1960, just shy of 62 years...
Thomas Jeffrey Danger, born Oct. 15, 1952, in Crookston, passed peacefully on March 25, 2022, in his home, with family. Tom graduated from Esko High School in 1970. He went on to earn his bachelor's degree from Augsburg College, where he made many lifelong friends. Tom's long career at AT&T provided him the opportunity to relocate to different cities around the country. Wherever he landed, he built strong friendships, and always a stylish comfortable home. After retiring, Tom moved to Tucson,...
Eleanore J. Huisinger, 89, of Cloquet passed away Feb. 2, 2022, at Inter-Faith Care Center in Carlton. She was born June 20, 1932, in Gary, South Dakota, the daughter of Nels and Anna (Hanson) Engeseth. Eleanore graduated from Gary High School and worked at her parents’ café and at the South Dakota School for the Blind. She married William Huisinger on June 22, 1950, during Buckaroo Days. They moved to Cloquet. Eleanore was employed at Diamond Brands, and the Carlton nursing home, from which sh...
A fire Saturday night destroyed a Barnum home and garage Friday night. According to a news release from the Carlton County Sheriff’s Office, Carlton County dispatch got a call reporting a garage fire at 8:38 p.m. Friday, May 14 on the 3700 block of Hilltop View Road in Barnum Township. Upon responding, deputies learned that a vehicle had caught on fire while inside the attached garage. The fire spread from the garage to the house. Although it was eventually contained, the garage and the home were a total loss. There were no injuries and all o...
The Carlton County farmers market will have its first Saturday sale of the season from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 4, in front of Premiere Theatres in Cloquet. The Carlton site opens Tuesday, June 21, from 4 to 6 p.m. in McFarland Park, Hwy 210 and Grand....
The annual Carlton County master gardeners plant sale is coming to the Veterans Park pavilion June 4, starting at 9 a.m. Lots of perennials, vegetable starts, bulbs and more will be available for $2, $3 and $5. Local garden experts will be available to answer all of your gardening questions. This year will feature a white elephant table and a pollinator seed packet for the first 50 customers....
The Carlton County transportation department is extending the spring load restrictions of 5 tons per axle on all county gravel roads until May 23, 2022. In addition, spring load restriction of 5 tons per axle will remain in place on Stark Road from Minnesota Highway 33 to Crosby Road and 7 tons per axle on Prevost Road....
As part of the process of accepting grant funding for the implementation of body-worn cameras, the Cloquet Police Department held the first of three public hearings during Tuesday’s city council meeting for public input. Police chief Derek Randall presented the draft policy for the both video and audio recordings, which was published as part of the May 17 council agenda packet at cloquetmn.gov. There was no public comment Tuesday, although Randall said the police department has received two comments, both in favor of body cameras. Anyone i...
The filing period for state and local offices — only those that could require primary elections in August — is open through May 31. Minnesota’s primary election day is Aug. 9. The city of Cloquet has four positions up for election in November, including the mayor and council seats for Wards 1, 2 and 3. Carlton County also has a number of positions up for election this year, including county commissioners for District 2 (Thomson Township area) and District 4 (including the Wrenshall, Carlton and Mahtowa area and parts of Barnum). Count...
Duluth musician Gaelynn Lea not only performed for the entire student body at Washington Elementary last Thursday, she had a conversation with them: 250 students at a time in two sessions. "How many of you have ever been in a really bad mood and cranked up the radio and danced around the house, maybe punched the air a few times?" she asked. "How many of you have been in a really good mood and danced around the house for that reason? And how many have ever felt anxious or scared and put on some...
Nearly two dozen people attended Monday's Wrenshall school board meeting, none of them to address agenda items. Four people spoke; two others belatedly said they wanted to give their time to the first speaker. That was Tony Sheda, a frequent speaker at Wrenshall school board meetings. The longtime resident repeated a litany of past complaints to the board, starting with the assertion that a petition that led to the removal of a board-appointed member, Bill Dian, last September was illegal....
The Carlton school board is searching for a new principal after it accepted the resignation of Ben Midge at its meeting Monday. Under advice from superintendent John Engstrom, the district will seek to fill a position of elementary principal, which was Midge’s job before tacking on the high school grades two years ago in a cost-saving measure for the challenged district. Engstrom said he expects there to be some remaining responsibilities at the high school, likely 10 percent of the job for a new hire, for which he could fill in alongside a p...
Construction on Minnesota highways 210 and 73 in Cromwell will be temporarily delayed, the Minnesota Department of Transportation announced last week. It did not provide details on why the project is delayed. “The new start date will be communicated as soon as possible but is anticipated to be at the end of May,” MnDOT said in a press release. The detour will be put into place once the start date is scheduled and it will likely be in place into October. Weekly update meetings at the construction site will be scheduled once work begins. The pro...
After another round of seeking funding to fix the failing outdoor back stairs to his apartment building, Roger Bruhn said this week that he has come up empty again. It likely means that by June 1, upper-level residents at the Victory Apartments will need to find housing after the city of Cloquet deemed the stairs a hazard and the top two floors "uninhabitable" without a fix. The stairs serve as the only direct exit for the upper floors of the building at 17 Eighth Street, across from the...
Thomas C. Lindevig, 63 of Cloquet, passed away Friday, May 13, 2022, at Miller-Dwan Hospital in Duluth. He was born in Cloquet on March 23, 1959, the son of Lorren and Beverly (Eknes) Lindevig. Tom graduated from Cloquet High School in 1977 and was a member of Bethel Lutheran Church in Scanlon. He worked for a great friend detailing cars and was loved so much by everyone that knew him. Tom had the best sense of humor and was so funny without even knowing it. He was my brother and best friend,...
After years of planning by the Carlton County board of commissioners and county administration, major bid packages for the county’s justice center are scheduled to be released June 10, closing June 30. A guaranteed maximum price for the justice center will be presented to the board at its July 12 meeting by construction manager Adolfson & Peterson. There are many contractors involved in the project, which has grown to an estimated $73 million with an estimated 15 percent inflation rate built in. The final cost won’t be determined until aft...
Cromwell-Wright choir director MaryRose Varo and her students sing the national anthem prior to the Cardinals baseball and softball games against Barnum on Tuesday afternoon in Cromwell....
John David Clawson, 87, passed away Dec. 27, 2021. Services: 10 a.m. Saturday, May 21, at Big Lake Covenant Church, 702 Salmi Road, Cloquet. Interment and luncheon will follow. Clara Hurst Skelton, 86, of Cloquet and formerly of Orr, passed away March 21, 2022. Services: 10 a.m. Saturday, May 21 at New Calvary Cemetery, Cloquet. Robert Henry Botz, 89, of Cloquet passed away Nov. 27, 2021. Celebration of Life: 11 a.m. Saturday, May 21 in Good Hope Church, 55 Armory Road, Cloquet. A luncheon will follow. Atkins-Northland Funeral Home. Mary Linda...
The Northland Foundation recently awarded seven Maada’ookiing grants. The Maada’ookiing board met in March to review and approve awards. Maada’ookiing (“the distribution” in Ojibwe) is a Northland Foundation program to strengthen relationships with Indigenous community, build partnerships with Native nations, and offer support for community members to expand capacity in northeastern Minnesota. A grant opportunity is offered three times per year for Tribal citizens, descendants, or those who have kinship ties or affiliation to Indigenous communi...
Jury selection started Monday, May 16, in the long-awaited homicide trial of 35-year-old Sheldon Thompson, with the trial expected to last into early June. Thompson is accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend, Jackie Defoe, her unborn child, and her 20-month-old son in March 2020. Thompson faces two charges of murder in the first degree each for the deaths of Jackie Ann Defoe and her son Kevin Lee Shabaiash Jr., and one charge of murder in the first degree of an unborn child, premeditated. He also faces two charges of murder in the second deg...
What's the secret to getting into Harvard? Finding and following your passion, said Cloquet High School senior Harmony Fisher. Which, in her case, is birds. It is a "random" fascination she owes to her little brother. "It's kind of random, but Oliver was super interested in birds and he got me hooked," she said. "Now he's not so interested, but I'd like to get a Ph.D. in ornithology." Of course, it also helps to have a 4.0 grade point average, an ACT score of 35, a wide variety of activities...
