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Thanks to the end of an almost two-year drought, water levels were high enough this year for Paddlemania to again feature the Fin Falls race course, which spans some of the best rapids on the lower St. Louis River through Jay Cooke State Park. “This race highlights some of the more gnarly rapids you have to navigate, including some Class 4 rapids,” race director Cliff Langley told the Pine Knot last week, explaining the water had been too low the past two years for that race course. Spe...
It's peak community festival season right now, with three Carlton County communities throwing hometown celebrations over the next nine days. On Saturday, Brickyard Days will bring the small town of Wrenshall together for a parade and fun in the park and at Bricks Pub and Grub. Esko Fun Days runs Tuesday through Saturday next week, and Ma and Pa Kettle Days returns next weekend in Kettle River. While all three events include food and community gatherings, Kettle River is the only community to...
A Carlton County man is dead after an crash on Highway 210 at approximately 9:05 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 1. According to the State Patrol incident report. The 69-year-old male from Sawyer was traveling eastbound on Highway 210 near the cross street of County Road 5 in a Ford Escape. The vehicle crossed into the westbound lane and entered the north ditch hitting an embankment. The airbag deployed but the man — who will be identified Friday — apparently died at the scene. Road conditions were wet at the time. Fond du Lac police, Carlton County She...
National Night Out is Tuesday, Aug. 6. Across the nation, neighborhoods and communities will host block parties, festivals, cookouts and various other community events with an emphasis on getting to know neighbors and local law enforcement. Every group has its own way of celebrating, large and small. In Cloquet, close to a thousand people will converge on Veterans Park for food and fun 5-8 p.m. Tuesday. At the same time, residents in the Sunnyside-Erickson Acres neighborhood will gather from...
Carlton social studies teacher Ryan Schmidt always dreamed of opening a hometown bookstore after retiring. Instead, he opened last week, just in time for Carlton Daze. The new N.P. Junction Books is located at 110 Third St., at the four-way stop, kittycorner from Third Base Bar. “It’s been an idea for six or seven years, then I started talking a little more seriously in about 2022,” Schmidt said. “Then I had the opportunity to do it a little sooner.” Schmidt did more than just open a bookstore...
A passenger on a motorcycle sustained serious injuries in a crash Monday on the Minnesota Highway 33 roundabout in Cloquet. According to the Minnesota State Patrol crash site, a Harley-Davidson was entering the roundabout from southbound Highway 33 to southbound Interstate 35 when the driver lost control due to an oily substance on the roadway at roughly 4:21 p.m. Monday, July 29. The driver, 48-year-old Jeffrey Baker of Virginia, Minnesota, had non-life threatening injuries that did not require further care. His passenger, 39-year-old Ashley...
Hoping to start a friendly game of cards with friendly seniors two Thursdays a month starting in September. Time and place to be determined. Interested? Call Joan at 218-348-8480....
The Minnesota Department of Transportation has closed CSAH 61 under the Interstate 35 bridge until Aug. 9. MnDOT will re-open once bridge painting has been completed. The DNR trail under the bridge will remain open. Traffic will be detoured on County Road 61 to County Road 4 to County Road 5....
The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has joined a lawsuit with other tribal nations saying social media companies have added to the mental health crisis engulfing Native American teenagers. It is the first such effort by a tribe in Minnesota. The law firm of Robins Kaplan in Los Angeles is representing the Band and four other tribes from the Dakotas and Wisconsin that have filed similar suits earlier this year against the four major social media companies: Alphabet, ByteDance, Meta and Snap, which run the social media sites...
The Senior LinkAge Line will offer a class on health care fraud and abuse prevention on Wednesday, Aug. 14. Attendees may choose the 10-11:30 a.m. or 2-3:30 p.m. session. Attendees will learn how to detect and report potential errors, fraud, and abuse; review potential fraud and scams targeting older adults, learn how to read their Medicare paperwork, learn how to protect their Medicare beneficiary number, and how to protect, detect and report Medicare scams and fraud. The class is offered online using the Microsoft Teams meeting platform....
Donna Ennis of Cloquet was appointed to the Mentally Ill and Dangerous Civil Commitment task force as a tribal representative, according to a news release from Gov. Tim Walz’s office. Her term will last one year, starting Aug. 1. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor are seeking qualified and diverse individuals who are passionate about using their knowledge, skills, and lived experiences to serve the state of Minnesota. Find a list of boards and commissions with open positions at commissionsandappointments.sos.state.mn.us/Po...
The Minnesota Department of Transportation asks the public to weigh in on the future of passenger rail. This request comes as part of the ongoing update to the Minnesota State Rail Plan. The Minnesota State Rail Plan addresses a variety of topics important to the future of rail including safety, economic development and possible expansion of passenger rail. With more than 4,000 miles of freight and passenger rail lines in the state, the MSRP provides an overall vision for future development of the rail system and identifies priority rail...
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has scheduled two public auctions of confiscated fishing, hunting, and trapping equipment. The auctions, which will be held online Aug. 26 and Oct. 7, include equipment that was confiscated following serious game and fish violations. A list of equipment to be auctioned will be available about a month before each auction at hillerauction.com. Online bidding for the auctions begins Aug. 23 (first auction) and Oct. 4 (second auction). Onsite inspection is available. All equipment will be sold as-is....
Jerry Leonard Stein Jr., 65, of Cloquet passed away Saturday, July 20, 2024. A Celebration of Life was held July 30. Arrangements by Nelson Funeral Care in Cloquet. Scott William Schubert, 57, of Barnum passed away on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, at Essentia Health-St. Mary’s in Duluth. No public ceremonies will be held. Arrangements by Nelson Funeral Care in Cloquet....
The U.S. Department of the Interior this week announced next steps on the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, launched in June 2021 by Secretary Deb Haaland as the first-ever comprehensive effort by the federal government to recognize the troubled legacy of past federal Indian boarding school policies with the goal of addressing their intergenerational impact and shedding light on past and present trauma in Indigenous communities. The final volume of the investigative report came with...
It is nice to know the funding provided by the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program will finally be put to use. As part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed in November 2021, there has been a significant gap between authorization of funds and the actual implementation. As one of the few owners of an electric vehicle living in Carlton County, I have noticed a lack of charging infrastructure north of Grand Rapids and the northern arrowhead region. When driving along the major traffic corridors of Interstate 35 and Inte...
FinnFest, starring Carlton County! Although that’s a slight exaggeration, I saw more people I knew at FinnFest Saturday morning than I usually see at the local grocery store. I hadn’t even made it to the ticket booth when I bumped into Anja Bottila, she of the mojakka cookoff and the Carlton County Historical Society. Next it was then Mandi (Huhta) Rosebrock, working the registration desk. Near the tori — Finnish for “marketplace” — I bumped into Mary Lukkarila, former Cloquet library director a...
The Arrowhead Girls Fastpitch League wound up the season last week with Barnum winning the championship in the U16/U18 Division. Barnum picked up four wins on the way to the title with a team composed entirely of U16 players. "We're a U16 team that includes a lot of our high school varsity softball players," said Barnum coach Dustin Collelo. "A couple of years ago this same group won U14 Gold Division in the summer league, so they are really progressing as a group nicely." The opening game of...
The Carlton Daze 5K on Friday saw 161 participants between the walking and running divisions Friday evening beginning at Four Seasons Arena in Carlton. There was also some wild kids' races, right. Moose Lake/Willow River's Elliott Wasche won the men's division with a time of 17:09 and Cromwell's Emaleigh Olesiak won the women's division race for the second year in a row with a time of 19:41 on Friday. Below, Florence Nelson (81), left, and Lorraine Butler (76) finish the walking division,...
There were many happy returns for Ann Heikkila, who celebrated her 90th birthday on July 24. She also celebrated on July 28 at church, with a special birthday cake and fancy place setting in her honor, with several area folks there. She got calls from Finland, Alaska, New York, Oregon, Colonial Williamsburg, Florida, Colorado, Cloquet, Duluth, Thunder Bay and Wisconsin. There were lots of cards. Special friends dropped off a small cake, and she had wine with dinner at Bann’s on Lake M...
About two weeks ago, I attended the 60-year reunion of the Cloquet High School Class of 1964. If some of you are trying to figure out my age, I am 78 years young. To be honest, I have not attended some of the previous reunions for one reason or another. But I was determined to go to this one. It was held during a bright sunny summer day at the Big Lake Golf Club. No fancy food or program, just a nice get-together. It gave each of us a chance to say hello and talk to classmates we had not seen...
Steven Paul “Steve” Hills, 67, of Cloquet passed away on July 25, 2024, peacefully overlooking Leech Lake at NorthStar Camp, his favorite place. Steve was born Dec. 11, 1956, to Daniel and Ardelle (Randall) Hills of Cloquet, where he grew up. Steve graduated from Cloquet High School in 1975. Over the course of his life, Steve worked at the Cloquet hospital starting as a janitor and eventually working in the engineering department. He later joined his father and uncle in the pipefitting tra...
Roger Joseph Tillman Sr., 88, of Kettle River passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, on July 23, 2024, in Moose Lake at the Moose Lake Village nursing home. Roger was born in Cloquet to Joe and Ellen Tillman on April 18, 1936. He went to McGregor High School and graduated in 1954. He then served two years in the U.S. Marine Corps. He worked in road construction most of his adult life, at E.W. Coons, Ulland Brothers, Arrowhead Blacktop and Glacier Paving, before starting his own business,...
Rosemary June Mathers, 93, of Cambridge, passed away in St. Cloud on Thursday, July 18, 2024, at the Quiet Oaks Hospice House. Rosemary was born on June 17, 1931, to Leif and Rose Olson in Cloquet. She was raised, and attended school, in Cloquet. After graduating, she attended Concordia University and University of Minnesota Duluth. She was married and widowed twice, to Edward Krzenski and then Doug Mathers. Rosemary worked as a realtor for Sorenson Realty in Cloquet. She also served as an...
Lonnie Eugene Peterson, 54, of Cloquet passed away on July 24, 2024, at Community Memorial Hospital in Cloquet. He was born Aug. 31, 1969, to Edward and Patricia (Adelsgruber) Peterson. He lived with his family in Cromwell. Early in his life, Lonnie was blessed with the programs at Pinewood Inc. that made it possible for him to attend school. He later had the opportunity to work in the housekeeping department at Black Bear Casino Resort as well as the kitchen at Perkins, which he truly enjoyed....
