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The St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office and the Duluth Police Department are conducting a joint investigation into a local business named Hicks Window and Door. Several people have recently reported paying thousands of dollars to this business for window and other residential remodel work. The agreed upon work was not completed, and these customers were not refunded any money. The owner of Hicks Window and Door is cooperating with the investigation. The total amount paid by customers for unfinished goods or services appears to be an excess of $...
The Chiefs of Comedy will perform a free show at the Otter Creek Event Center at Black Bear Casino and Resort Friday, Nov. 15 as part of Native American Heritage month. Doors open at 6 p.m., show starts at 7 p.m. This comedy show will feature JR Redwater, Jon Roberts and Gilbert Brown This is an alcohol free event....
Firearms deer season starts this weekend, and it’s a Big Deal to many of us hunters. The camaraderie, tradition, and sport of deer hunting is a Minnesota institution. It’s often a family affair, with many children accompanying their parents on hunting trips; just as many of those parents went hunting with their parents. It’s a great time for bonding with family and friends while enjoying a bit of the great Minnesota outdoors. A certain culture has developed around deer hunting, and it’s constantly evolving. It wasn’t too long ago that very few...
The Democrats are excited to find the right candidate to take on the incumbent in next year’s Presidential election. They’re spending a lot of time and energy to pick the right candidate, and the candidates are spending a lot of energy trying to convince the party that they can carry the day a year from now. But some of them aren’t making much sense to me. Too many promises, not enough substance. Lack of substance seems to work on the national scale though. It seems like Presidential candi...
Thomas Jefferson wrote, “Wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government.” I would like to commend the Carlton School Board for providing voters with detailed information on various building and consolidation scenarios. The public’s request for this information was made clearly known through their Community Advisory Committee’s Strategic Planning Report, and the board has responded. The school board has now given voters the information they need to make an informed choice. However, as individual board members...
In just a few days, Minnesotans from across the state will take part in a tradition many of us look forward to each fall: the firearms deer hunting season. The opportunity to get outside, the challenge of the hunt, time with family and friends, and tasty recipes with venison all highlight why this tradition continues year after year. Across a wealth of both public and private lands, over a half-million Minnesotans participate in this tradition annually. This activity has a considerable impact on our state economy. Deer hunting itself generates...
Three years ago, a dream came true for a 26-year-old woman from Uganda who had struggled all her life to get an education, who felt lucky just to make it through school. Then, a year after her graduation, there came a guardian angel who said, "Don't unpack your bags just yet." Cloquet's Tim Krohn was determined to make my dream come true - and eventually I found myself coming to the United States to work as an intern at the newspaper in Cloquet. I was excited when Tim (who knew my family...
Fond du Lac Band member Vern Northrup began photographing during his work as a Bureau of Indian Affairs wildland fire operations specialist working on Native lands across the U.S. “When I was a firefighter,” he reflected during a conversation with me last week, “we carried everything on our backs. Real cameras were heavy, so we would buy disposable cameras to document our work and its challenges. I fought fire for 26-27 years. I managed fires, managed aircraft, engines and crews, inclu...
Hunters, media members and anyone interested in deer harvest data can find current deer harvest figures and harvest reports for past years available on the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources deer reports and statistics webpage. “A key objective of our statewide deer plan is to provide timely and accessible information about deer management and one of the more popular metrics of interest — especially this time of year — is up-to-date deer harvest data,” said Barbara Keller, DNR big game program leader. “We’re excited to provide the...
Folks are wearing their blaze orange again, and you know what that means. It’s time to eat (and shop) and hunt. The hunters supper sponsored by the Cromwell Area Community Club will be 4-7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8 at the Cromwell Pavilion. The cost is $10 for adults. Volunteers are needed too. The hunters supper and bake sale at the Round Lake Presbyterian Church is 5-9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9, on County Road 6 or Goshawk Avenue. The Beehive Community Club is holding its annual (all you can eat) m...
I take solace in the fact that along with thoughts of winter come thoughts of Christmas. So, I’m putting these upcoming Christmas bazaars and festivals on my calendar and I hope you do, too! Plan to carve some time out of your busy days to attend. These events will give some extra pizzazz to your Christmas holidays! The 51st annual “Finnish-American Holiday” bazaar, sponsored by the Ladies of Kaleva Soinnuttaren Tupa #32, will be held Saturday, Nov. 16 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Kaleva Hall,...
When I moved to Wrenshall after graduate school in New York City I had many friends and colleagues tell me some version of the same thing: “Oh, what a unique thing. Art and farming. How can you possibly pursue art living in the country?” There is a false divide in our popular culture and a pervasive understanding that urban centers should be hubs that export culture and import food. We celebrate the idea of terroir when it applies to wine or food — the idea that a particular grape can take...
Although it's been close to 40 years since the lights went out for good on the Cloquet Civic Center, many Cloquet residents still have fond memories of the iconic downtown building. Located on Cloquet Avenue between Fifth and Sixth streets - the present home of the Cloquet Area Fire District's Station 1 - the civic center was a destination for generations of area residents. Also known as the "Y" (originally, it was affiliated with the YMCA), the civic center had a gymnasium for basketball,...
Veterans Day is a well-known American holiday, but there are also a few misconceptions about it. To clear some of that up, here are the important facts you should know. No apostrophe A lot of people think it’s “Veteran’s Day” or “Veterans’ Day,” but they’re wrong. The holiday is not a day that “belongs” to one veteran or multiple veterans, which is what an apostrophe implies. It’s a day for honoring all veterans — so no apostrophe needed. Not Memorial Day A lot of Americans get this confused, an...
