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The Carlton Soil and Water Conservation District was recently awarded a $400,000 grant to be used for pollinator habitat enhancement. The Habitat Enhancement Landscape Program (HELP) awarded funds this fall to convert 8.2 acres of county-owned and -managed turf grass into a network of diverse pollinator plantings. The restoration of native plants will provide critical pollinator habitat, increase the community's access to natural spaces, and improve the landscape's resilience. HELP grants,...
Jamin Paul Beardsley, 49, passed away unexpectedly Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. Jamin was born in West Des Moines, Iowa to Jim and Karen Beardsley on July 16, 1975; he later moved to Brookston, Minnesota. Jamin was always the life of the party. He loved to entertain, cook, and make everyone laugh. He enjoyed mixed martial arts, achieving his black belt; and also enjoyed hunting, fishing, camping, collecting silver and coins, and just being with his family and friends. We will all miss his smile and...
Jeffry Dennis Bergin “walked on” Nov. 2, 2024 at his home in Minneapolis. Jeffry was born July 6, 1948 in Duluth, Minnesota to John and Sue (Vincent) Bergin. He graduated from Cloquet High School in 1966. His strong suit was the theatre, and in the senior play that year he portrayed phonetics professor Henry Higgins in “Pygmalion.” He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1972, summa cum laude, with a degree in English. Jeffry was ever the Renaissance Man. His creativity bloomed through...
Eugene Douglas Risdon, 91, of Cloquet passed away Nov. 8, 2024, at Evergreen Knoll assisted living. He was born on Dec. 29, 1932, to Michael and June (Parsons) Risdon in Manannah, Minnesota. Gene graduated from Cloquet High School in 1955 and was united in marriage to Carol Ann Johnson on Sept. 30, 1961. Gene was a member of the Presbyterian Church. He worked at the fish and game department in Glenwood, Minnesota and Jay Cooke State Park in Carlton, and at the Northwest Paper Company for 20...
Esther Marilyn Peterson, 88, formerly of Mahtowa, passed away peacefully on Monday, Nov. 11, 2024, at Inter-Faith Care Center, Carlton, surrounded by her family. Esther was born on Feb. 25, 1936 to Gust and Signe (Heino) Granrose. She met the love of her life, Rodney (“Rod”), at Barnum High School. They were married on Feb. 13, 1954, until Rod’s passing in August 2021. She loved her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, attending countless sporting events, recitals, school conce...
John G. Hunt Jr., 89 of Cloquet, passed away Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, at New Perspective Assisted Living. He was born Aug. 30, 1935, in Duluth, the son of John Sr. and Anna (Holmberg) Hunt, and resided in Brookston, graduating from Brookston High School. John married Marie Niemi on Aug. 5, 1955, and they were inseparable for 69 years. John was very proud of the house they built together in 1960, and enjoyed reminiscing about the work they put in throughout his life. Even death could not disturb...
Eileen Pearl Wood, 93 of Cloquet, formerly of Canyon, Minnesota, passed away Monday, Nov. 18, 2024, at Inter-Faith Care Center while in the care of hospice. Eileen was born Sep. 11, 1931, in New Richmond, Wisconsin, to Walter J. and Margaret A. (Studley) Elmore. The family moved to Frazer, Montana in 1933, where her dad and uncle worked on the construction of Fort Peck Dam. The Elmores moved to Meadowlands in 1939, where she graduated from high school in 1949. Eileen married William W. Wood of C...
With all of Carlton County's 39 precincts reporting, the unofficial tallies from the 2024 general election brought some interesting results, including a win in the county for President-elect Donald Trump, who did not win Minnesota. The Republican was the top vote-getter - 50.1 percent to Vice President Kamala Harris' 47.6 percent - in a county that had nearly 90-percent voter turnout with more than 20,000 people submitting ballots. Voter turnout nearly matched the 92-percent mark made in 2020...
Cloquet police responded to a pair of explosions in October that shook a south Cloquet neighborhood and left one resident to wonder whether he’d been the subject of political violence. “My concern was they didn’t kill somebody,” said John Badger, 55, whose home is located at 1341 Valley View Drive. “It was more powerful than a firework. I had aluminum cans disintegrated into pieces of shrapnel and bottles turned to dust.” Badger sprang from his couch to a “loud bang” sometime after 10 p.m. Oct. 16, he said, and he witnessed a neighbor also come...
Winter parking is in effect now through March, so don’t leave your cars parked on the streets of Cloquet overnight. According to city code, cars cannot be parked on the streets or in alleys between the hours of midnight and 6 a.m. from Nov. 1 through March 31, to allow snowplow drivers and others to clear the streets. The only exception is a vehicle parked at an open business establishment between midnight and 2 a.m. “unless ordered to be moved at the direction of a peace officer.” In Esko, parking on the street is prohibited 4-7 a.m. In Carlt...
All City of Cloquet and Carlton County offices will be closed on Monday, Nov. 11 in observance of the Veterans Day Holiday. This includes County Courthouse offices, County Government Services Building, County Transportation Department, Human Services, Public Health, Motor Vehicle License Bureau, Veterans Service Office and the University of Minnesota Extension Service Office. The Hwy. 210 Transfer Station will be open....
There was a line of people outside Cloquet City Hall at 7 a.m. Tuesday morning, waiting for the polls to open. "There was a line again at 10 a.m. that kind of surprised us, and now there's another one," said head judge John Cavanaugh at about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. "We've been busy all day." By 4:30 p.m. they'd seen 675 voters come through, and Cavanaugh was expecting between 800-850 by the end of the day. The city hall was also busier than usual with people registering to vote, Cavanaugh said,...
Forty percent of the Carlton County board of commissioners turned over on Tuesday, with voters electing two newcomers to go along with the familiar face of an incumbent. "I appreciate the support from the district, it's been great," said 59-year-old Tom Proulx, the District 3 commissioner representing northeast Cloquet, from Scanlon to beyond Sunnyside. Proulx ran unopposed, and earned 97 percent of the general election vote (2,667 votes out of 2,725 cast), winning his seat for a fifth straight...
The Carlton County Disabled American Veterans and Auxiliary are again organizing a free Cloquet Community Thanksgiving meal at Zion Lutheran Church 12-3 p.m. Nov. 28. All Carlton County residents are invited to sit down and enjoy a nice turkey meal with all the fixings and in good company. Although folks don’t have to call ahead to dine in, they must call 218-451-0966 for delivery as soon as possible so DAV organizers can plan the many delivery routes. If no one answers, leave a message with name, phone number, address and how many meals for d...
Two more pro-consolidation candidates were elected to the Carlton school board Tuesday. Challengers Ben Nilsen and Dan Solarz will join the board in January: both have indicated they strongly favor pairing with neighboring Wrenshall. Another advocate for a union with Wrenshall was Ryan Leonzal, who was re-elected Tuesday after winning a special election a year ago. Each of the winning candidates received over 20 percent of the vote, a strong showing in a race where voters could vote for up to three candidates. Leaving in January will be...
Nathan Barta is just 20, but he won in a landslide Tuesday, taking more than 50 percent of the vote for Thomson Township Supervisor Seat C while his opponents – Jaryn Edblad and John Bergman – garnered 27 and 22.6 percent. While the incoming Thomson supervisor is definitely the youngest person in Carlton County – or maybe even the state – to win election Tuesday, the University of Minnesota Duluth junior knows a thing or two about local politics. Two years ago he penned a guest column in the Pin...
Be forewarned ... attending next week's Cloquet High School production of "Mamma Mia!" will have Abba songs running through your head day and night. Having Abba in your head is a happy way to start the day though, just like the CHS musical is a happy way to spend a couple hours Thursday through Sunday next week, with performances starting at 7 p.m. Nov. 14-16 and 2 p.m. Nov. 17 in the CHS auditorium. Director Corey Hunt said choir teacher (and music director) Rhonda Card pitched the musical last...
Museums are not just repositories of objects, they are living spaces that tell stories, bring people together, and create understanding." – Unknown We like to hold on to our history as evidenced by the local museums in Carlton County. Cloquet, Moose Lake, and Esko museums retain artifacts of our past to help us remember people who worked, played and formed the society and culture we enjoy today. The stories and insights we garner from a visit to the museum can improve our perspective on life a...
Please recognize, support and utilize an important and valued city asset: the Cloquet Public Library. The library has been acknowledged by the Minnesota Department of Education as providing well above the minimum level of support for 2025. Should a library fall below the state-certified level, Minnesota law requires removal of the city from State Library Services funding formulas. This would greatly reduce the breadth and depth of library services available to Cloquet city and area residents. It has been a few years since the Cloquet Public...
A card arrived at the Cloquet post office as war loomed in the early 1940s. It was asking postmasters from across the country to consider signing up for military service. Clarence Scheibe was 40 years old. "He said, 'Oh well,' and signed it," his daughter Maggie Scheibe said this fall. It was just a few weeks after the Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center in Superior announced its latest exhibit, "Post Office in the Pacific," featuring Scheibe and his work in the Army in keeping the flow...
I don't remember meeting him. His name was Marvin Gleason. He was my first cousin who died in 1958, at age 31, when I was only 3 years old. Marvin was a decorated Korean War pilot who served in the U.S. Air Force. He's buried at the Maple Grove Cemetery in Cloquet and I visit his gravesite often. I always wish I could have heard his stories in person, especially when I'm reminded of his service each Veterans Day. Gleason grew up on Fourth Street and Selmser Avenue in Cloquet. He'd be 98 years...
Four days after graduating from high school in 1970, Gerald "Jerry" Manthey went on active duty in the Air Force. A crew chief/flight engineer, Manthey trained with B-52 bombers. His first assignment was at the K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base, a strategic air command. Once there, Manthey started working on KC-135 planes, which were in-flight refueling tankers. He learned quickly how lucky he was to be working on the KCs. "Four engines instead of eight on a KC, eight on a B-52. Half the problems," he...
Longtime Carlton County resident Russ Plaisted was saluted by family, friends and neighbors at a birthday gathering Sunday, Nov. 2, at St. Matthews Lutheran Church in Esko. Russ was born Nov. 5, 1924 in Duluth. His parents were Elder and Genevieve Plaisted. He and his wife Dorothy lived in Esko 18 years, then on the Iron Range 18 years, then back to Esko, and are now settled in Cloquet. Dorothy was 93 on April 5. The couple has another milestone pending when they will celebrate their 72nd...
On a beautiful Saturday morning, hundreds of Minnesota's top high school cross country runners raced across the University of Minnesota Les Bolstad golf course as part of the Minnesota State High School Cross Country Meet. With the temperature in the 50s, it was the perfect day for running and spectators, said Carlton/Wrenshall coach Brenda Knudsen. But the rolling hills of the course created some challenges. "There were not a lot of PRs (personal records) with all those hills. It's not a fast f...
Accolades continue to pour in for area soccer players as All-State and All-Tournament teams were announced after the Minnesota State High School Soccer Tournament ended last week. Lauren Hughes of Cloquet/Carlton was named to first team All-State in Class AA and Reese Kuklinski of Esko was named first team All-State in Class A. “Reese is a true leader of our program,” said Esko coach Sharon Lahtii. “Academically, she is a 4.0 student, she mentors our younger players and is positive under pressure. Reese has a bright future ahead of her at Mi...
