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The Cloquet football team continues to dominate locally after notching another impressive win Friday, this time by throttling Proctor 58-13. With an offensive line that is smart, big and nasty and an abundance of fast and athletic backs, the Lumberjacks are a formidable opponent for any team they play this season. "The offensive line continues to get better and better this year," said head coach Tom Lenarz. "The fun thing for me is that they are all students of the game and have clearly spent...
When sports columnist and celebrity Sid Hartman, of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune and WCCO radio, passed away last week, it pushed me to pause and reflect. Sid was 100 years old. He had an article that he had written printed in the newspaper on the day he died. He had more than 20,000 articles published in his 70-plus year newspaper career. He was friends with Bud Grant, for God’s sake. Didn’t matter your sport of choice or gender, most Minnesota athletic enthusiasts had heard of the inf...
Football Moose Lake/Willow River 28 Crosby-Ironton 6 The Rebels improved to 3-0 on the season with an impressive home win over the Rangers. ML/WR outgained the Rangers 296 to 82 yards for the game. Jackson Thompson had another impressive game for the Rebels by scoring twice. Thompson’s first touchdown came on a 7-yard touchdown dash and his second came on an impressive 93-yard punt return for a score. Both Logan Orvedahl and Carter Johnson also scored for the Rebels. ML/WR led 16-0 at halftime and did not allow the Rangers to score until the fo...
Kyle Siiter scored a pair of touchdowns and the Carlton-Wrenshall Raptors picked up their second win of the season with a 26-6 win over the McGregor Mercuries in a District 9 White Conference high school football game on Friday. Zeke Rousseau and Siiter both scored in the first quarter for the Raptors with Rousseau running two yards for a score and Siiter plowing in from five yards away as Carlton-Wrenshall jumped to a 13-0 lead after the Kristian Herman extra point kick on the first score by...
A big win Friday for the South Ridge football team has set up a head-to-head meeting with another undefeated foe this week. Last Friday the Panthers downed perennial power Cook County 20-6. This week they will face the undefeated Cherry Tigers. "It will truly be a big test for us this week against 3-0 Cherry," said Panther head coach Brent Johnson. A quick start on Friday gave the Panthers a 20-0 halftime lead and then the defense did the rest by keeping the Vikings off the scoreboard until...
The Minnesota Wilderness will now play their home opener in mid- November, thanks to the coronavirus. On Tuesday, the Wilderness, Austin Bruins and Aberdeen Wings announced a shuffle in the teams’ schedules spanning the upcoming two weekends due to complications caused by Covid-19. “This action was taken in abundance of caution in an effort to operate as safely as possible for teams’ players, staff and fans,” the press release stated. The original home opener between the Wilderness and the St. Cloud Norseman scheduled for Saturday, October 31 w...
For a team that prides itself on being one big happy "swamily," a season of Covid restrictions made things much more challenging, said Cloquet-Esko-Carlton head coach Rachel Peterson. Then when a crucial dehumidifying fan caused the pool to close down for more than a month, it only added insult to injury. On the bright side, they made it through the hard times - busing for limited practices three nights a week in Duluth, doing dryland training - and many swimmers achieved personal bests during...
Minnesota’s firearms deer season begins half an hour before sunrise on Saturday, Nov. 7, and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources expects nearly half a million hunters to participate. To assist with your coverage of the deer season, here are materials about deer hunting in Minnesota. Firearms deer season is one of several seasons for deer hunters. Archery deer season opened Sept. 19 and lasts through Thursday, Dec. 31. Muzzleloader deer season is Saturday, Nov. 28 through Sunday, Dec. 13. Hunters are advised to make a deer hunting p...
Cromwell-Wright and Wrenshall hooked up in girls volleyball action last Thursday with the Cardinals coming out on top 3-1. Cromwell won by scores of; 25-18, 12-25, 25-16, 25-22. The victory improved the Cards record to 3-1 on the season. "Our team is very young. I am very happy with how the team is playing together and staying positive with each other," said Cromwell coach Amy Granholm. "I feel that the players are very supportive of each other. We know that we are lucky to be playing now, so...
Cloquet volleyball Tuesday, Oct. 20, at Carlton Cloquet def. Carlton 25-15, 25-8, 25-14. Cloquet (3-2): Brenna McClarey 10K; Keelee Grashorn 9K; Ava Carlson 7K, 13D; Emerson Rock 27SA; Elli Willoughby 11D; Trinity Semo 4K. Thursday, Oct. 22, in Cloquet. Cloquet def. Eveleth-Gilbert 25-17, 25-16, 25-27, 25-17. C (4-2): Brenna McClarey 16K, 4B; Geneveve Fonoti 11K; Ava Carlson 10K, 3AS, 2B; Emerson Rock 41SA; Morgan VanReese 16SA, 3AS, 12D; Breea Rasmussen 7K, 15D, 4AS; Elli Willoughby 23D. Tuesday, Oct. 27, in Cloquet. Cloquet def. Moose...
Minnesota Public Radio spoke with Dr. Beth Thielen, an adult and pediatric infectious diseases physician at the University of Minnesota medical school, and John Jost, who runs the city of Anoka’s annual Halloween celebration, about the ways the holiday is changing this year. They shared a few suggestions to help navigate this year’s celebration amid the pandemic. Adjust expectations Many traditional Halloween traditions, like trick-or-treating, involve face-to-face interactions with lots of different people. But this year, in order to pre...
Editor’s note:In response to questions about efforts by three area school districts — Barnum, Moose Lake and Willow River — to explore ways to share resources and expenses, committee members share the following update with the Pine Knot News. In early 2020, school board chairs from Barnum, Moose Lake and Willow River began meeting to discuss opportunities to share costs and services between the three districts. Previous conversations had been ongoing between superintendents, and the chairs decided to build on these relationships and expan...
Covid-19’s toll in Minnesota continued its grim ascent Tuesday with the Health Department reporting 15 more deaths, nearly 2,200 more cases and a record number of hospitalizations. Newly confirmed cases were up on relatively low testing, skyrocketing the positive test rate above 15 percent — more than three times the threshold officials say is concerning. It’s a jump so startling that MPR News checked with the department to see if it was an error. It was not, although it’s unclear yet if this is an anomaly or evidence of a problematic trend....
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Although positive Covid cases in Carlton County are rising rapidly, Cloquet schools plan to stay the course for at least another week. On Thursday, the number of positive Covid cases in the county crossed the 20 per 10,000 mark -- the point at which the state recommends a shift to hybrid learning at the elementary school levels -- but Cloquet superintendent Michael Cary says the schools will remain in hybrid learning for grades 7-12 and in-person learning for grades K-6. New numbers are released every Thursday. District officials advised...
