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Two pieces of great news came out of Monday’s Cloquet school board meeting: 1.The school district tax levy will increase by less than half a percent; 2.The district is part of a consortium of mostly Carlton County school districts that was awarded a $1.5 million grant ($750,000 each year for the next two years) to expand and explore the career and technical education programs in the area. Other school districts in the group include Barnum, Carlton, Cromwell-Wright, Esko, McGregor, Moose Lake, Willow River and Wrenshall. All of the districts a...
Boys basketball Fond du Lac Ojibwe vs Mountain Iron-Buhl at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30 Cloquet vs Barnum at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30 Cloquet at Duluth East at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3 Carlton vs East Central at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3 Cromwell-Wright at Barnum at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3 Carlton at Wrenshall at 7:15 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6 Cloquet vs Esko at 7:15 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6 Cromwell-Wright at McGregor at 7:15 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6 Girls basketball Cloquet vs Bloomington Jefferson at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30 Cromwell-Wright vs Barnum at...
Alexandria Technical & Community College and Melrose Metalworks hosted Cloquet, above, and Barnum, top, high school students November 6. The high school students were given a walk-through presentation of manufacturing and construction careers. Students were able to visit with instructors and students in the manufacturing and construction and transportation and mechanics divisions. The event was an opportunity for students to explore the distinct environments of the region's advanced...
Girls hockey • CEC vs Grand Rapids at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 26 • CEC vs. International Falls at 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30 Boys hockey • CEC at Chaska at 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23 Junior hockey • Minnesota Wilderness vs. Austin Bruins at 7:05 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 27 • Minnesota Wilderness at Austin Bruins at 7:05 p.m. Friday, Nov. 29 Girls basketball • Cloquet at Esko at 7:15 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22 • Cloquet vs. Bloomington Jefferson at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30 • Wrenshall at North Lakes Academy Tuesday, Nov. 26 with time TBD • Carlton vs. Denfe...
Heather Giancola said mental health issues among the inmate population are a big problem at the county jail. Giancola, a social worker from Carlton County Public Health and Human Services, gave a report about services provided to offenders at the Carlton County Jail to the Carlton County Board of Commissioners at a committee of the whole meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 5. “Since we started the program four months ago, there have been 344 referrals to community agencies,” she said. “We help people get documents, such as birth certificates or driver’s l...
When Jack Thornton carried his wife Joyce over the threshold of their new home on Jan. 23, 1955, the newlyweds weren’t alone. A thousand people stood outside and cheered as they entered the two-bedroom, pre-fab house at 109 7th St. in Cloquet. It had been this way for a while, ever since the previous August when a story about the blind couple flashed on newswires and landed in every newspaper across the country. “We were well-known,” Joyce coyly said of all the attention. The new home was a gif...
Now that Halloween has come and gone, we can look forward to the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. There are some among us who groan and “bah humbug” about the holidays, but there are others, like myself, who will be putting up a Christmas light display for all to enjoy. My family has been putting up lighted trees, reindeer, blow-up snowmen and strings of lights on the house since the 1990s. This year my gratitude goes out to Mark Larson, Stanley McKibbon, Nikki Rackliffe and Lucy Rackliffe f...
Editor's note: Lauren Soukkala, age 10, of Barnum submitted this frightening and fun tale of a Halloween gone weird to the Pine Knot News. We typed up the story mostly as submitted - adding a little punctuation here and there. Lauren, right, sent her work on a blood red piece of paper with a drawing to accompany the story. Creatively enough, the red paper made the art difficult to reproduce here. Once upon a time it was one day before Halloween and everybody was carving pumpkins because they...
The voice is deep, rich, and weathered. The hands may show some age, but they glide over the strings of the old Gibson guitar effortlessly, like they have maybe a million times before. Don Brown is not the same young man who first graced a noisy barroom stage in Cloquet nearly six decades ago, but his country music remains much the same. Brown started "playing out" with a friend about 1961. "I think the first place we played was down on Dunlap Island in Cloquet, at a little place on the corner...
Esko-33 Crosby-Ironton-0 Playing at home on Senior Night, the Eskomos mauled the Crosby-Ironton Rangers and in doing so solidified their top seed in the Section 7AAA playoffs and picking up a first round bye. The Eskomos got a pair of touchdowns from Dylan Vinje and one each from Eli Blue, Nolan Witt and Brock House. Esko led 13-0 after one quarter and 19-0 at the half as they pulled away to the easy win. The school honored the late Jackson Pfister, a sophomore at Esko who died of heart failure...
It's been a banner year so far for many Carlton County cross country runners, and it's all coming down to the line this week at the Cloquet Country Club. The Section 7 cross country meet will take place in Cloquet Thursday at CCC, after this issue of the Pine Knot News went to press. The Class A girls will kick things off at 11 a.m., the Class A boys follow at 11:45 a.m. Then it's the Class AA girls at 3 p.m. and things will wrap up at 3:45 p.m. with the Class AA boys race. Expect the weather...
CROSS COUNTRY Section 7A and 7AA sections were set for Thursday, Oct. 24 at the Cloquet Country Club Golf Course with 7A races starting at 11 a.m. and 7AA races starting at 3 p.m. The State meet is Nov. 2 at St. Olaf College, Northfield. GIRLS SOCCER SECTIONS The Cloquet-Carlton girls team was set to play Academy of Holy Angels in a state quarterfinals match Thursday night, Oct. 24, at Chisago Lakes High School in Lindstrom. The winner of that game will play at 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28 at U.S. Bank Stadium against either Orono or Rochester...
The Braham Bombers jumped out early and never were threatened in their 48-8 win over the Barnum Bombers in a Section 7A football game in Braham Tuesday night. “Braham has good size across their offensive front and our guys had a hard time controlling the line of scrimmage,” said Barnum coach Mike Klyve. “Their run game up the middle was strong, and when we adjusted they used their speed and got out to the edge effectively with the outside run game and screen game.” A big thorn in Barnum'...
South Ridge-25 Silver Bay-6 South Ridge continued its winning streak with a big road win over the Mariners. Connor Bushbaum broke a scoreless tie with just 41 seconds remaining in the first quarter when he bolted 50-yards for a touchdown, making it 6-0 Panthers. The Panthers built the lead to 14-0 in the second quarter on a Nick Larson eight-yard touchdown rumble and a two-point conversion run by Larson. The Mariners fought back to cut the lead to 14-6 before halftime, when Mason Ollman scored...
Swimming Tuesday, Oct. 22 at 5 p.m. vs. Duluth Denfeld Thursday, Oct. 24 at 5 p.m. invitational at Superior Saturday, Nov. 2 at 11 a.m. at Mesabi East Girls soccer sections The Cloquet-Carlton girls team was scheduled to play Chisago Lakes High School in a Section 7A championship game at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17 at North Branch High School. The winner will advance to the Class A girls soccer state tournament. State quarterfinal games will begin between Oct. 22-24, with final schedules and locati...
David J. Bottem, 64, of Barnum passed away peacefully on Saturday, October 12, 2019, in Essentia’s palliative care. David was born on September 6, 1955, in Triumph, MN, to Donald Jay and Laverne Marie Bottem. He grew up and attended school in St. James, MN, and graduated in 1973. He attended Concordia College in Moorhead where he majored in Elementary Education. David sang in the Chapel Choir at Concordia, where he and Debra Nelson met their sophomore year, and they were married on August 21, 1...
Following are recent felony and gross misdemeanor court cases resolved in Carlton County Sixth District Court. Arresting agencies are abbreviated as follows: Cloquet Police Department (CPD), Carlton County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO), Fond du Lac Police Department (FDL), Moose Lake Police Department (MLPD), Minnesota State Patrol (MSP). Defoe, Tony Joe, 33, Cloquet, 10/25/2017-Check Forgery-Felony. Disposition: 5/3/2019-Diversion, placed on unsupervised probation for 1 year. Hudson, Jesse John, 62, Barnum, 7/8/2019 Test Refusal-Gross M...
Football roundup South Ridge-28 Cherry-0 South Ridge exploded to score all 28 of their points in the second quarter against the visiting Tigers. Tarious Lovejoy started the scoring early in the second quarter on a 3-yard touchdown run. Riley Kinsley added a 13-yard dash for a score and Logan Young contributed a 10-yard touchdown run as well. At the end of the quarter Nick Larson caught a 16-yarder to wrap up the scoring. The win moves the Panthers to 5-1 and tied for first with Silver Bay in the District 9 Blue Division. Ogilvie-16...
The Barnum volleyball team picked up an impressive win last Thursday when they downed Cromwell-Wright 3-2 in a thrilling five-set match in Barnum. "It was a huge win for us over Cromwell," said Barnum coach Corina Newman. "The girls executed and played smart ball at times, but both teams were up and down like a roller coaster." The Bombers took the first set of the match by a 25-17 score, but the Cards bounced back to win the next two sets 26-24 and 25-13 before Barnum responded in kind by...
Football Cloquet-26 North Branch-12 The Lumberjacks were deadlocked with the Vikings 6-6 at halftime and slowly pulled away over the second half to secure the win on the road. Markus Pokornowski ran back a punt early in the first quarter for a 35-yard touchdown, but Cloquet missed the extra point kick and led 6-0 after the opening quarter. The Vikings tied the score in the second quarter when Johnny Snaza picked up a fumble and ran in from three yards out, but the two-point conversion run was stuffed by the ’Jacks. Just after halftime the L...
Volleyball Barnum, Wrenshall at Mesabi East conference tournament Saturday, Oct. 5 Cloquet, Cromwell-Wright at ML/WR tournament Saturday, Oct. 5 Esko, South Ridge at Proctor tournament Saturday, Oct. 5 Barnum vs. Silver Bay Tuesday, Oct. 8 Carlton at South Ridge Tuesday, Oct. 8 Cloquet vs. Proctor Tuesday, Oct. 8 Cromwell-Wright at Two Harbors Tuesday, Oct. 8 Esko vs. McGregor Tuesday, Oct. 8 Fond du Lac Ojibwe vs. Lac Courte Oreilles Oct. 8 Wrenshall vs. Cook County Tuesday, Oct 8 Barnum vs. Wrenshall Thursday, Oct. 10 Cloquet vs. Superior...
Following are recent felony and gross misdemeanor court cases resolved in Carlton County Sixth District Court. Arresting agencies are abbreviated as follows: Cloquet Police Department (CPD), Carlton County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO), Fond du Lac Police Department (FDL), Moose Lake Police Department (MLPD), Minnesota State Patrol (MSP). Defoe, Tony Joe, 33, Cloquet, 10/25/2017-Check Forgery-Felony. Disposition: 5/3/2019-Diversion, placed on unsupervised probation for 1 year. Hudson, Jesse John, 62, Barnum, 7/8/2019 Test Refusal-Gross M...
Football Cloquet-50 Hibbing-14 At halftime the Cloquet Lumberjacks led Hibbing by a 20-14 score but seemed to be struggling against the over-matched Bluejackets. Enter Marshall Hayes, a sophomore running back, who seemed to spark the ’Jacks offense in the second half. While star running back Cole Ketola handled most of the first-half running chores and churned up big yardage, it was Hayes who handled the bulk of the carries on the first drive of the second half that started a scoring o...
Football Today, Sept. 27 • Barnum hosts Chisholm, 7 p.m. • Carlton/Wrenshall hosts McGregor, 7 p.m. • Cloquet at North Branch, 7 p.m. • Cromwell-Wright at Onamia, 7 p.m. • Esko at Moose Lake/Willow River, 7 p.m. • South Ridge at Cook County, 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4 • South Ridge hosts Cherry, 7 p.m. • Barnum at Braham, 7 p.m. • Cloquet hosts Grand Rapids, 7 p.m. • Cromwell-Wright hosts Ogilvie, 7 p.m. • Esko hosts Pine City, 5 p.m. (Homecoming) Soccer Saturday, Sept. 28 • CEC boys host Hermantown, 1 p.m. • Cloquet girls host Hermantown, 3 p.m. Tu...
FOOTBALL Barnum vs. North Woods Friday, Sep 20 at 7 p.m. Barnum vs. Chisholm Friday, Sep 27 at 7 p.m. Carlton/Wrenshall at Floodwood High School Friday, Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. Carlton/Wrenshall vs. McGregor High School Friday, Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. Cloquet at Hibbing Friday, Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. Cloquet at North Branch Friday, Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. Cromwell-Wright vs. McGregor Friday, Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. Cromwell-Wright at Onamia Friday, Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. Esko vs. Mora Friday, Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. Esko at Moose Lake/Willow River Friday, Sept. 27 at 7 p.m....
