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The good news? Ward 3 Cloquet city councilor Dakota Koski just bought his first home. The bad news? It's not in Ward 3. That means Koski will have to step down from his council seat as soon as he makes the move from his current residence on Eighth Street to his new home in the Sunnyside neighborhood, which he expects to happen July 1. City administrator Aaron Reeves said the council will have a choice between setting a special election as soon as possible, or appointing someone to fill Koski's...
The Cloquet Police Department is asking for help with its investigation of alleged shots fired Thursday night. According to a press release from the Cloquet Police Department, on Thursday, May 30, around 9:30 p.m., officers responded to the Fond du Lac Gas & Grocery Store for a report of a person who had been shot inside their SUV. Officers learned the juvenile victim was a passenger in an SUV traveling south on Brevator Road when another car approached and fired something at their SUV, causing two windows to shatter. A passenger inside the...
Phillip R. Larson, 58, of Sawyer, Minn. passed away Saturday, June 1, 2019 at St. Luke’s Hospital in Duluth. He was born May 14, 1961 in Cloquet to Raymond and Lucille (Jankowski) Larson. Phill graduated from Cloquet High School in 1979 and attended Lake Superior College to be a mechanic. He worked at Crown Auto in Duluth, Lakeland Tire in Cloquet, Upper Lakes Foods in Cloquet and was currently working for Rihm Leasing in Cloquet. Phill was a man of great faith, loved God and his parish c...
John Fisher-Merritt knew his purpose, and did not hesitate before answering. He had created a demand for, and built a community around quality, sustainably grown food. Then came the questions: Why would he take on young farmers as apprentices, giving them all the secrets of his farming success and even access to his customers? Didn't he feel like he might be creating competitors? "Well, we had so many people on the waiting list," he said of demand for his organically grown produce. "I felt like...
Contractors broke ground last week on the biggest road project in Cloquet this summer, the complete reconstruction of Washington Avenue. The $3.074 million project includes all of the busy roadway, from Minnesota Highway 33 to County Highway 45. For now the work is limited to the portion between Highway 33 and 14th Street, where the pavement has been removed and work on storm sewer crossings and city of Cloquet sanitary sewer is underway. That section is still open to local traffic, although...
The Carlton County Farmers Market starts in Cloquet on Saturday, June 1, with its annual plant sale. The Cloquet market is open 9 a.m. to noon in the Premiere Theatres parking lot, 904 Hwy 33 S, through Oct. 19. The Carlton market location will open 4-6 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, and every Tuesday through Oct. 15. The CCFM is now accepting SNAP/EBT at both market locations. SNAP participants can receive a dollar-for-dollar match of Market Bucks up to $10 per market visit. Email [email protected] for more inf...
Anne Marie Chelin-Anderson, 57, Holyoke, was sentenced to 90 days in jail on May 23 by Judge Robert Macauley in the Carlton County Court. The sentence was stayed with conditions. Chelin-Anderson had been charged with two counts of criminal sexual conduct of an inmate in a correctional facility, both felonies, for an offense on or about April 23, 2018. The criminal complaint stated that Chelin-Anderson, a teacher of an employment class for inmates at the Moose Lake prison, had made sexual...
The Cloquet Police Department is looking for any tips regarding a burglary of the B&B on Monday, May 27. The burglar caused damage to a door, and stole numerous cigarette cartons. The police have posted photos of the burglar, who is dressed in a dark colored hoodie and wearing a mask and large blue shoes on their Facebook page. If anyone recognizes the suspect through clothing or knows someone selling a large amount of Marlboro cigarettes, police are requesting they call or message the tip line. Tips can be privately messaged, called into...
Since a resident broached the idea earlier this year, members of the Cloquet Planning Commission and Cloquet City Council had been pecking at the idea of changing city code to allow residents to keep chickens in certain residential neighborhoods with large enough lots. The draft ordinance would have allowed residents to keep up to five hens (no roosters) in the suburban residential or R1 districts on lots a minimum of half an acre. A previous attempt to change the law died for lack of a second in 2012, but would have allowed chickens on...
If you have any outstanding warrants, please take advantage of the warrant resolution clinic coming up Thursday, June 13 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Ojibwe School gym, 49 University Road, Cloquet. The Carlton County Courthouse, local prosecuting agencies, local law enforcement and the public defender’s office are collaborating with the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa to sponsor this warrant (Minnesota warrants only) resolution event. Walk in on your warrant and the criminal justice community will work together and make their b...
All retirees from the Cloquet school district are invited to attend a coffee party in their honor from 9-11 a.m. Monday, June 3 in the Cloquet High School Media Center. Please join us for this opportunity to catch up with former fellow employees of Cloquet schools while enjoying a cup of coffee and a sweet treat compliments of alumni Dan and Kelly Lundquist. The Cloquet Educational Foundation is pleased to host this event in recognition of the important contribution retirees have given to our children and community. Retirees are welcome to...
In the years I lived in cities, I was rarely invited to a high school graduation party. Now living fulltime in Cromwell, friends and neighbors are making up for that. After Cromwell-Wright's graduation on Friday, May 24, the parties commenced. Some parents rented spaces like our Cromwell Pavilion or the Sno-Gophers Club. Others gussied up their garages, homes and lawns for festivities. Always, the parties offer scrumptious food, from the very healthy - such as blueberries, yogurt, carrots, and...
Not everyone needs a will. But everyone should consider having one anyway. In Minnesota, if you pass away without a will, the law takes over: everything you own will pass to your heirs. If you have children, it goes to them. If you don’t have children, it passes to your parents if they are still around, or to your siblings. No siblings? The law of intestate succession continues down the family tree, so cousins, second cousins and so on inherit. Eventually, if there are no relatives, the state ke...
Congratulations, graduates. And there are so many of you. With nine high schools in Carlton County, there are nine graduation ceremonies to attend. Barnum and Esko both hold their ceremonies tonight, May 31. Wrenshall, Carlton, Cromwell-Wright, Fond du Lac and Cloquet all held ceremonies last Friday, May 24. Moose Lake matriculated its students last Sunday, May 26, in an afternoon ceremony and the Cloquet Area Alternative Education Program held its graduation program the afternoon of May 23. In our view, attending a graduation ceremony brings...
Wrenshall residents have voted on school building referendums three times in two years and it comes at a financial as well as an emotional cost. The current administration has caused division in our community. In this writer’s opinion, the cause is the agenda-driven superintendent. We do not have the tax base to support their dreams. Currently we owe $1.2 million, debt payable in 2021. As part of the fiscally responsible majority, I would like to ask — as the Lorrie Morgan song says — “What part of no don’t you understand?” I attended th...
Minnesota has proven that a divided government can still come together to get work done for its constituents. Having finished our special session with a completed state budget for the next two years, the Minnesota Legislature has adjourned until Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. The nature of compromise is that everyone doesn't get everything they want, and that was certainly the case this session. While I believe many of these bills could have been better, the compromise legislation we produced still...
Urban "Bear" Felstrup, 94, of Cloquet passed away Friday, Oct. 26, 2018, at Essentia Health-St. Mary's Medical Center in Duluth. He was born June 25, 1924, to Andrew and Matilda (Johnson) Felstrup. Urban was a World War II veteran, having served in the U.S. Army. He married Winifred "Freddie" Taylor on Feb. 2, 1946 in Cloquet. Urban was employed at Conwed for more than 30 years and retired in 1989. Urban was a member of the Dalles Masonic Lodge No. 181 A.F. & A.M. for 60 years and attended the...
Ready, set, start a tradition. The second annual Carlton County Community Bike Ride is set for trails across Carlton County Saturday, June 9. Beginning at 11 a.m., there will be treats, food, activities for all ages, entertainment and, most importantly, water, at all four rest stops on the Munger Trail: the DNR pavilion in Carlton, TJ’s Country Corner in Mahtowa, the Munger Trail parking lot in Barnum and the Historic Train Depot in Moose Lake. This year two different homegrown bands will be performing at different spots along the trail. The La...
The 2019 Dollars for Scholars recipients and the folks and businesses that made the scholarships possible are: Madisyn Anderson, $1,700 – The Mercy Foundation, Koivisto Trucking, Jeff and Lynn Swatek, Beehive Community Club, Cromwell Medical Clinic, Cromwell-Wright Dollars for Scholars, Nextgen Foundation Isaac Shelton, $1,600 – Irving Community Association, Rudy Nikko and the Nikko family in memory of Karen (Karppinen) Nikko, David A. Winegar, DDS, Wenstrom Insurance Agency, Friends in mem...
The Wrenshall graduating class of 2019 was honored last Friday with a ceremony at the school. (There they all are, below.) Twenty-five students received their diplomas. Representatives from the class spoke, as well as retiring teacher David Blinn. A recurring theme in the student presentations was how the Wrenshall school community felt like a family and how the nurturing relationships they have with peers, teachers, and administration can set them on a path for professional and personal...
Consolidation with the Carlton school district was not discussed during the Cloquet school board meeting Tuesday, but Cloquet schools superintendent Michael Cary confirmed that he expects to meet with Carlton superintendent Gwen Carman again soon. They had an initial conversation after Carman reached out to him, and he asked for more details on what consolidation between Cloquet and Carlton would mean in terms of impact on faculty and taxes, he said. “We would need to see a compelling reason t...
Manager Timothy Bury stands in the back office at the Farmers Cooperative store in Wright, thumbing through an old ledger book: its thick yellow pages still sturdy, cursive handwriting detailing the first meeting in February 1919 still legible. "The farmers of Wright and vacinity (sic) met ... for the purpose of forming a company for the conducting of a General Mercantile business," it starts, the handwriting probably by A. Lundquist, who was appointed secretary of the new cooperative. The...
Measles. I remember the classes in medical school talking about different childhood diseases which I hoped I would never see. Measles was one of them. We studied about it: symptoms include fever, cough, conjunctivitis, rash and coryza (runny nose). We were tested on it, but thankfully never saw the disease. At one point in America, it was thought to be eradicated. What a great victory for the health of the public. It was one less devastating disease to worry about. As you have heard in the news, measles has been making a strong comeback. If...
The Cloquet Food Service Department will provide lunch to the children of Cloquet at no charge. The 2019 Summer Feeding Program will provide nutritious meals to children who may not otherwise have access to healthy food when school is out. Starting June 10, the kitchen at Cloquet High School will provide open lunch to all children and will continue through Aug. 15 from 11 a.m.-noon Monday through Thursday each week. Children 18 and younger may receive free lunch through the program. Lunches are also available to persons with disabilities over a...
Look out now, but there will be a new Section 7A champion in girls softball this season. In a day of upsets, the South Ridge Panthers - under first year coach Roger Plachta - put the Carlton Bulldogs in the losers bracket with a 1-0 loss and then the Cherry Tigers eliminated the 'Dogs with a 5-2 win later in the day. The Panthers enter the section championship for the second year in a row, but this time they will be taking on the Cherry Tigers and not the Carlton Bulldogs. South Ridge rode the s...
