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Hope everyone is enjoying the great weather and getting ready for the Carlton community fall pickup, which will be a weeklong event beginning Oct. 14. Remember to bag leaves and pine needles and place them near the street. Place brush in a pile next to the bags. For the City of Carlton, there are also dropoff areas for mulch and brush only. Do not bring logs. If you have any questions, contact the city at 218-384-4229. The hours for the recycling shed are 2-6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9...
It was a week of wacky fun at Cloquet High School last week as students celebrated homecoming, capped off Friday by a football win and the coronation of Aspen Winbigler and Gage Allen, below, as the homecoming royalty....
The Cloquet volleyball team celebrated Ella Maslowski's 1,000th career set assist Saturday - fittingly on a feed to her sister, sophomore Ava Maslowski - after going 3-1 at the Mora Invitational. The Lumberjacks sandwiched the weekend action with wins last Thursday and this Tuesday over Denfeld and Hibbing. Contributed photo...
Sharon Lynn (Lowell) Sell, 78, of Carlton passed away Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, at Aspirus-St. Luke’s Hospital in Duluth. She was born March 7, 1946, to Martin and Shirley (Rodd) Lowell in Gary, Indiana. She grew up in the Cloquet area and graduated from Esko High School in 1964. In December of 1973, Sharon married Frank Sell, and the two were blessed with almost 30 years together. They filled these years with memories of hunting, fishing, traveling, and raising their family. Sharon worked at t...
Sandra Darlene Tester, known affectionately as "Sandy," passed away peacefully on Aug. 19, 2024, in Austin, Texas at the age of 80. Born April 23, 1944, in Duluth, Sandy grew up in Cloquet, where she met and married her childhood sweetheart, Thomas "Tom" Tester, on Dec. 3, 1960. Shortly thereafter, their first child, Barbara, was born, followed by their second daughter, Wendy. Sandy helped support the family as a well-regarded hairdresser until her kids were older, when she followed her dream...
LaVerne Stone Zack, 96, passed away Aug. 14, 2024, at the Covenant Living Hospice Center in Golden Valley, Minnesota. A celebration of life will be held 1-3 p.m. Oct. 24 at Nelson Funeral Care in Cloquet. LaVerne was born June 19, 1928, to Helen and Thor Stone in Chicago. Her parents moved back to the Duluth-Superior area, and LaVerne attended school in Duluth, graduating from Cathedral High School in 1944 at age 16. She attended Duluth Junior College while working full-time as an operator for N...
Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing. Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. * WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 expected. * WHERE...In Minnesota, Carlton, South St. Louis, Central St. Louis, North St. Louis,Northern Aitkin, Pine, Koochiching, North Itasca, South Itasca, Northern Cook and Lake, and Southern Cook Counties. In Wisconsin, Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Sawyer, and Washburn Counties. This includes the Tribal Lands of the...
The intersection of Minnesota Highway 210 and Carlton County Highway 61 in Carlton will close Thursday as construction continues on J-turn installation at the site. Originally, Carlton County officials expected the installation would be done without having to close the intersection. But the best and quickest way to tie in Highway 61 with the new stop area was to close the intersection for a day, county engineer JinYeene Neumann said after Tuesday's county board meeting. "It'll be open by...
