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Hello again from the red clay waters of the Nemadji River. Last week we journeyed back in time and were lucky to see Glacial Lake Duluth and witness a lake 450 feet higher than current Lake Superior. It was so high it backed up and covered Jay Cooke Park and a good deal of Carlton County; it existed there for about 1,000 years, according to glacial geologists (glaciologists). The presence of this ancient lake is an important part of the Nemadji River story. We know the Nemadji River basin has an...
And then there were two. Members of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa living in District 1 (Cloquet) will elect a new representative on Tuesday, choosing between Patty Petite and Wally Dupuis, the top vote getters in an October primary election that featured 12 candidates. The winner will serve two years as the District 1 committee person for the Fond du Lac Reservation Business Committee, filling the seat vacated by Vanessa Northrup after she was removed from the seat in July by... Full story
Hello, everyone in the Pine Knot community, hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. I did! I spent time with my family, my favorite mother-in-law and some of my grandkids. We always like to take a little hike in the woods and look for stuff; this time we ventured a little way out on a frozen pond and enjoyed looking through the ice and crystal clear water for plants, animals and whatever else we could discover. This got me thinking about the color of water in my own neighborhood. In Carlton... Full story
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College was honored with a Silver Medallion Award for excellence in public relations, marketing, and communication in the 2018 National Council for Marketing and Public Relations District 5 Medallion Awards competition. The Silver Medallion of Excellence Award recognized the college's 2018 Wall Calendar, an annual poster-sized publication produced by the college's Public Information Department and distributed at no cost to area businesses, schools, and community...
Sara Rybak, a student in the Environmental Studies and Geographic Information Systems programs at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, won first place in the College Student Poster Competition at the 28th annual Minnesota Geographic Information Systems and Land Information Systems (GIS/LIS) Conference held in Duluth during October. Rybak, of Sturgeon Lake and a graduate of Willow River High School, entered her poster titled "Evaluating the Impacts of Environmental Factors on Eastern Larch...
Last time we were together, we explored the formation of the unique bedrock of downtown Thomson. We traveled in the time machine of science and saw 2-billion-year-old mud compressed into shale, then cooked and deformed about 1 billion years ago, turning into slate. Now it is exposed in the St. Louis River in Jay Cooke Park and lines the community of Thomson. After that journey through time, I hopped into my Dodge Dakota, left Thomson, and traveled less than a quarter of a mile before I got...
