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  • Obituary: Catherine Sollom

    Oct 25, 2024

    Catherine Ann Sollom, 74, passed away peacefully Oct. 16, 2024, surrounded by her family. Cathy grew up in Minnesota and graduated from Cloquet High School in 1968. She attended college at Bemidji State, where she double-majored in English and mass communications while finding the love of her life. In 1971, she and Bob married and embarked on a lifelong journey of love and adventure. Cathy passionately served our nation for more than 30 years as a civil servant, predominantly with her beloved...

  • Death Notices

    Oct 25, 2024

    Ailie Marie Merrill, 95, of Cloquet passed away Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024, at Moose Lake Village. A funeral service for Ailie will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 30 at Nelson Funeral Care in Cloquet. Visitation will begin at p.m. and will continue until the 2 p.m. ceremony. Ailie’s final resting place will be Sunrise Memorial Park Cemetery in Hermantown....

  • Renovations continue

    Jana Peterson|Oct 25, 2024

    Work is ongoing at the Hotel Solem building downtown Cloquet as part of an extensive renovation that will remake the historic hotel — and former Mexico Lindo restaurant — into market rate apartments over the next 12-18 months. A crane was used earlier this month to replace roofing, while general demolition of the interior is continuing. Asbestos abatement is completed both inside and outside, according to developers C&C Holdings of Cloquet. Want more history on this project? Search for “Ho...

  • Halloween Fun

    Oct 25, 2024

    Last week's Pine Knot News had an extensive rundown of local Halloween destinations for thrillseekers in late October. Previously unreported Halloween offerings include one local house, at right, where Briana DeBartolo creates a large Halloween display every year at 310 Johnson Ave., in Cloquet. This year she is taking donations for a Gofundme for a 14-year-old with cancer. Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College Nursing Club's Trunk or Treat will take place 1:30-4:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26 in...

  • PHOTO: ART AT THE LIBRARY

    Jana Peterson|Oct 25, 2024

    On a visit to the Cloquet Public Library Saturday, Oct. 19, Emma and Bruce Corrie stand with "The Circles of Belonging" canvas, an artwork which was colored or messages drawn by hundreds of people over the 12 days of Minnesota State Fair. "The richness of our human experience from all walks of life, of our diverse faith traditions, of our home towns or countries of origin, of our friendships and insights from life - all of them made this canvas a kaleidoscope with beautiful views of the human...

  • Obituary: Ailie Marie Merrill

    Oct 25, 2024

    Ailie Marie Merrill, age 95, of Cloquet, Minnesota passed away on Wednesday, October 23, 2024, at the Moose Lake Village. She was born on January 2, 1929, to John and Lydia (Salmi) Laine in Automba, Minnesota. Ailie moved to Cloquet in 1946, and was united in marriage to James Merrill in 1948. They were blessed with three children and Ailie naturally settled into her role as homemaker, dedicating her life to her family. She also volunteered for Meals on Wheels for 27 years. Faith was a very...

  • Body found in Cloquet, police say death not considered suspicious

    Pine Knot News staff|Oct 25, 2024

    Cloquet police confirmed Tuesday, Oct. 29, that a deceased person was found in the wooded area behind the 218 Taphouse at approximately 9 p.m. Oct. 18. A preliminary investigation did not uncover any firearms, bullet holes, or other apparent indicators of foul play, according to a news release issued Tuesday. “No evidence suggests suspicious circumstances,” said Cloquet Chief of Police Derek Randall. The man was later identified by the Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office as 64-year-old Timothy Scott Morse, whose last known address is Grand Maria...

  • Dan Kraker MPR News|Oct 25, 2024

    When Jen Schultz won the first of her four House terms at Minnesota’s Capitol in 2014, she joined a stable of Democratic legislators from the area and the 8th Congressional District was in the party’s hands, too — albeit by a very narrow margin. A decade later, it’s a far different picture. Outside of her home base in Duluth, Republicans hold sway in much of northeastern Minnesota. And the 8th District has elected a Republican in U.S. Rep. Pete Stauber in three consecutive elections. Schultz, who left the Legislature after the 2022 session...  Website

  • Updated: Bicyclist struck, injured on Highway 45

    Oct 25, 2024

    A bicyclist was struck on Highway 45 early Tuesday morning. According to a Minnesota State Patrol report, the driver of a Ford Focus was traveling southbound on Highway 45 and struck the cyclist in the roadway about one mile south of Interstate 35 at approximately 4:44 a.m. Tuesday. The cyclist, 34-year-old Michael Lawrence Benson of Wrenshall, was transported with non-life threatening injuries to Essentia Health in Duluth, according to the MSP incident report. He was not wearing a helmet. The driver of the Focus, Wrenshall’s 60-year-old D...

  • Transformative justice

    Brady Slater|Oct 18, 2024

    This is a story about elections and their consequences. About victims and justice. About hope for a safer, brighter future for the children in our midst. On Aug. 9, this newspaper covered two sentencings in Sixth District Court in Carlton, both criminal sexual conduct cases involving juvenile female victims. The cases were the latest in a series of similar cases being prosecuted locally since Carlton County Attorney Lauri Ketola took elected office in 2019. The emotional afternoon saw the...

  • Celebrate fall with ghouls and gourds galore

    Pine Knot News|Oct 18, 2024

    Fall has arrived and with it, Halloween fun. The Haunted Shack outside Carlton opened last weekend. The smaller but spectacular Haunted Hawthorne is alive and well, with frights every weekend behind a family home in Cloquet. There's even an option for those who prefer to be terrified while driving their cars, courtesy of the County Seat Theater. Following is a list of area amusements, some tame and some spine-tingling and downright spooky: The County Seat's drive-in Halloween Spooktacular will...

  • Grant will pay bulk of Armory Road project

    Jana Peterson|Oct 18, 2024

    Armory Road will be smoother, safer and a little less steep at the end after a $1.8 million reconstruction project is mostly complete in 2026. For now, that project exists only on paper, but assistant city engineer John Anderson said construction is expected to start next spring during a public hearing at Tuesday's Cloquet City Council meeting. It's a well-used road, leading from Minnesota Highway 33 to the Cloquet Armory, McDonald's Restaurant and entrances to the Lumberjack Mall businesses...

  • Veterans, military members wanted

    Oct 18, 2024

    Veterans, military members and descendants take note. The Pine Knot News will again publish a special section recognizing local veterans and military personnel on Friday, Nov. 8. But we need your help to do it with a deadline of noon Friday, Oct. 25. Please send or drop off photos of your veterans and military personnel along with their name, branch of service, rank, years and dates of service if available, and conflicts they participated in. Extra details, memories or stories from their years of service are encouraged. Please mail to or drop...

  • Cloquet School Board has empty seat for now

    Jana Peterson|Oct 18, 2024

    Cloquet School Board members voted Monday against appointing a temporary replacement for Ken Scarbrough, who moved with his wife to North Dakota with less than three months left of his school board term. Superintendent Michael Cary said there was a former board member willing to serve the remainder of the term. He also explained there is a 30-day wait period for public comment, so even if the board had appointed a temporary member on Monday, they couldn’t be seated until Nov. 13, after the board’s first meeting that month. “So you would have...

  • Storefront vandalized on Carlton Avenue

    Brady Slater|Oct 18, 2024

    A 26-year-old Duluth man was arrested Sunday after a report of someone breaking windows of Burger's Shoes, located at 1609 Carlton Ave., Cloquet. Matthew William Johnson was arrested shortly after the incident was reported at 8:55 p.m. Sunday. Johnson was charged Tuesday with first-degree felony damage to property and remained in Carlton County Jail into the week on $15,000 bail. According to the criminal complaint filed in Sixth District Court in Carlton, a witness called Cloquet police to say...

  • Santa books trip to Cloquet

    Oct 18, 2024

    Don’t worry, kids, Santa and Mrs. Claus will again travel to Cloquet for some pre-Christmas merriment. This year’s Santa’s Home for the Holidays activities are being planned for Dec. 5-7, with many different organizations collaborating to make things happen, with most past events returning. The grand finale, as usual, will be the evening parade with all its holiday lights down Cloquet Avenue followed by fireworks. Look for more details in an upcoming issue of the Pine Knot. Email santa...

  • Candidate forum goes virtual

    Oct 18, 2024

    The candidate forum organized by the Cloquet Area Chamber of Commerce got a makeover for 2024. Instead of candidates sitting side by side in the Cloquet City Council chambers in front of a live audience, individual interviews were recorded without an audience and should be posted soon to the city and Chamber website, as well as the city’s CAT-7 channel (for Mediacom customers). The Cloquet forum will feature candidates for MN House District 11A and Carlton County Commissioner District 1 only....

  • Another winner

    Oct 18, 2024

    Gary Sather, of Cloquet, received a $25 gift certificate to CreativEdge Designs in Carlton for being spotted sporting an "I Think Knot!" bumper sticker on his vehicle. "It's got all the information in it," Sather said of the Pine Knot News. Photo by Brady Slater / Pine Knot News...

  • From the Editor: Out of many, one community paper

    Jana Peterson|Oct 18, 2024

    When we started the Pine Knot News six years ago, people in the newspaper industry noticed. Admittedly, it was mostly shock — Who was crazy enough to start a brand-new paper? — mixed in with a flicker of hope. It all started after my previous employer, the Pine Journal, closed its office here and moved operations to Duluth. A group of us felt strongly that Cloquet and Carlton County needed a solidly local newspaper that actually cared enough to have an office here and a paper producing original...

  • Public service is not a choice, but a duty

    Ted Lammi|Oct 18, 2024

    Back on Oct. 7, the Carlton school board itself went to school. Members met for three hours with a representative of the Minnesota School Board Association to receive instruction on Minnesota law, school board rights and responsibilities, Robert's Rules of Order, and several other subjects pertaining to the proper function of a school board. Carlton schools are facing significant challenges, but all six of the people governing the schools still found time to work on making themselves better...

  • Newest Cloquet biz park addition feeling right at home

    Tom Urbanski|Oct 18, 2024

    Like clockwork, trucks roll in and trucks roll out, making the newest facility in the Cloquet Business Park function like a model of efficiency. C&L Distributing began operations here just before Memorial Day. The first few months in its new building have gone well, company representatives said, as staff settled into a daily pattern and workflow. When presented to the city of Cloquet, the center cost was $3.4 million with more than 20 employees expected to work there. Today there are 22 full-...

  • 2024 General Election Local Candidates

    Oct 18, 2024

    STATE REPRESENTATIVE District 11A (elect 1) Jeff A. Dotseth Republican Pete Radosevich Democratic- Farmer-Labor JUDICIAL CANDIDATES 6th District (elect 1) Gunnar B. Johnson, Shawn Reed, Duluth COUNTY COMMISSIONER District 1 (elect 1) Sarah Buhs Caleb Dunlap District 5 (elect 1) Dan Reed Alex French SOIL AND WATER SUPERVISOR District 1 (elect 1) Michelle Boyechko Barbara Dahl District 4 (elect 1) Gary Peterson District 5 (elect 1) Bruce Heikes Roger Hurd CITY CANDIDATES BARNUM City Council (elect 2) Darrel Berry James Calhoun CARLTON Mayor...

  • State Representative District 11A Candidates

    Oct 18, 2024

    Jeff Dotseth (I) Briefly summarize your personal background and qualifications. I am a husband, father, grandfather, farmer, realtor and small business owner who, as a state representative, has delivered for the people of District 11A during my first term in the Minnesota House of Representatives. What made you decide to run for state representative? I represent a district that previously lacked a strong voice. Local residents deserve better so I ran to solve local problems and get things done. Please describe where you stand on the following...

  • Carlton County Commissioner Candidates

    Oct 18, 2024

    DISTRICT 1: Sarah Buhs Briefly summarize your personal background and qualifications. As a lifelong Carlton County resident working in public safety, healthcare, and community service, I'm dedicated to community well-being. Leadership, resilience, and passion for public service drives my commitment to positively impacting Carlton County. Learn why I am determined to be a Carlton County District 1 Commissioner at sarahplantebuhs.com. What made you decide to run for Carlton County commissioner this year? I'm concerned about rising taxes and...

  • Sixth District Judge Candidates

    Oct 18, 2024

    Name: Gunnar Johnson Age: 56 Residence: Gnesen Township Current job: Attorney for Cloquet Area Fire District, City of Hermantown, numerous townships, and Overom Law. Education I received a BS in biology at UMD in 1990. I was on the Dean’s List and received service awards including the Sieur du Luth Award. I went to law school at the American University in Washington, DC. I graduated cum laude in the top 25 percent of my class in 1994. As an attorney, I attend at least 15 hours of Continuing Legal Education each year to maintain my Minnesota and...

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