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MLA girls team should be a force After grinding out an 8-11 record during a Covid season a year ago, the Moose Lake Area Rebels girls hockey team is raring to go. “I thought that despite Covid and overcoming so many obstacles, our girls had a great season,” said coach Reilly Fawcett. “We were a young team last year and many of our young girls were a huge key to our success. We made it to the second round of playoffs which Moose Lake Area has not done for some time. Proctor/Hermantown — who end...
Sam Livecchi stopped all 26 shots he faced Saturday night to earn his first Junior A shutout as the Minnesota Wilderness defeated the Chippewa Steel 6-0. It was the second-straight strong performance from Livecchi, who paced the Wilderness to a 3-2 shootout win Thursday in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, in the first game of the home-and-home set. Livecchi made 32 saves in the Thursday win. Offensively, six goal scorers found the back of the net Saturday night for the Wilderness. It started at the 4:19 mark of the first period when former Duluth...
At the ripe old age of 21, former Cloquet standout Riley Leslie has been an award-winning high school athlete and scholar, then a hard-working college student, and now you can call him “Captain.” Leslie recently acquired his own boat as part of the Happy Hooker Charters fleet in Duluth on Lake Superior. Sports were always a big part of Leslie’s life. As a junior, he played on the undefeated Lumberjacks football team, which lost for the first time in the state championship game. Although the t...
Laurie Jean Sparks, 62, of Wrenshall passed away Monday, Nov. 22, 2021. She was born Dec. 22, 1958 in Duluth to Gerald and Barbara Cook. She was raised on Lawrence Road in Cloquet and attended Cloquet Schools, graduating in 1977. Laurie married William Sparks on Sept. 19, 1998 in Carlton. Laurie received her associate’s degree from Lake Superior College in Duluth. She worked as a commercial loan processor at Members Cooperative Credit Union in both Cloquet and Duluth and at Park State Bank in D...
A fire Sunday damaged an Esko apartment but no one was injured. According to a press release from the Carlton County Sheriff’s Office, numerous 911 calls reported a fire at 157 West Highway 61 in Esko at 3:10 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 21. Esko firefighters responded and found light smoke showing from the building and no visible flames. Upon entry, they found fire in the front apartment, but no one home. They quickly extinguished the fire but there was significant damage to the apartment. The tenant w...
People who appreciate great photography and the great outdoors are invited to attend the opening art reception for two local photographers from 4-6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2 at the Pine Knot News office at 122 Avenue C, Cloquet. Retired Cloquet doctor and photographer Dan Malkovich will have a number of landscape photos on display, often taken at Jay Cooke State Park. The show will also feature wildlife and nature photos by Cromwell native Will Stenberg. Because of the high rate of Covid...
The County Seat Theater Company will present the comedy “A Doublewide, Texas Christmas" at the Encore! Performing Arts Center in Cloquet. “Growing up in a small town sparked long ago holiday memories as I first read ‘A Doublewide, Texas Christmas,’” said director Larry Anderson. “Yes, it is a wonderful farce, but beneath the mayhem and madness is the hope of one young girl to be able to meet her father, a father she has never known.” In this outrageously funny comedy, it’s Christmas-time in the...
5-2022 Quarter 1 ~ Honorable Mention A Honor Roll~ **To be recognized for A honor roll student must hold a term GPA of 3.75 or higher. 12th Grade Kenneth Alberti, Nicholas DeVriendt-LeDoux, Kash Gibson, Dakota Hegg, Alaina Kiehl, Erik McPhail, Noah Olsen, Thomas Orlowski, Carly Parker, Joseph Solomon, Michaela Sundeen, Cole Thompson, Maria Villena Hortelano 11th Grade ~ Eliza DeCaigny, Dylan Schwartz 10th Grade ~ Michael Cadotte, Brayden Drake, Luukas Korpela, Gavin LeBrasseur, Megan Matarelli, Adeline Midge, Sam Ojibway, Gibson Reed, Brody...
It was 18 years ago Nov. 22 that my mom, Katharine Dahlman, suffered a stroke in her Southview Apartment. She spent the next five months in the Sunnyside nursing home before she died. Ironically, Lindsay Lally gave me a small painting of my mom’s when we were at the Bethany church bazaar Saturday — almost like a message from Mom. Mom had been at the Country Inn restaurant that morning and then went home to make her famous lemon meringue pies for the bazaar. She collapsed before the pies wer...
The annual Giving Thanks Feast could not be held this year due to the pandemic, so Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College staff brought Thanksgiving to them by creating Thanksgiving food bundles. Through a partnership with B&B Market of Cloquet, the food bundles were assembled into convenient packages for contactless pickup Friday, Nov. 19. Each food bundle included a turkey, one box of stuffing, pumpkin pie and whipped cream, vegetables, potatoes, cranberries, rolls and butter. Roughly 70...
The Minnesota Wilderness let a dominant first period go by the wayside Friday night, as the Chippewa Steel dominated the final two periods to win, 7-5. The Wilderness scored 3 and outshot the Steel 12-2 in the opening frame, but the Steel came to life early in the 2nd. The Steel outscored the Wilderness 7-2 in the final 40 minutes, which included 3 goals in the final 2:08 of the hockey game. Joe Kelly led the way for Chippewa with 3 goals and 1 assist. His first goal came at the 9:00 mark of the 2nd with an assist from Evan Tanos. He then...
Next month, Cloquet grad Benjamin Bauer will be winging his way to Colorado, where he will formally accept the National Student Athlete Scholarship, and read the essay that led to his latest award, this one from the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrator Association (NIAAA). It won't be the first time Bauer has stood in front of a room of dignitaries to read his work. The last time was three years ago, after Bauer won the BestPrep essay contest for his response to a prompt by fellow...
