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Thursday, Jan. 9 Boys Basketball Hermantown-72 Cloquet-62 The Lumberjacks were within a point at halftime, but the Hawks were able to pull away for the win. Markus Pokornowski led the ’Jacks with 24 points. Adam Schneider finished with 16 and Dylan Heehn added 12 points. Also scoring for Cloquet were Tyler Issendorf and Alec Turnbull with four points each and Kade Clemens with two. Moose Lake/ Willow River-84 Silver Bay-41 After dropping a tough game to Esko last week, the Rebels bounced back with an impressive win over the Mariners behind t...
As a young child, Cloquet's Koby Bender had two goals: play college hockey and in the National Hockey League. The 22-year-old is on his way. In his third year with the University of Minnesota Duluth, Bender is playing college hockey at the highest level for one of the best teams in the country. The Bulldogs have won the national championship the past two years and Bender contributed both years, making nine appearances in the 2017-18 season (he also qualified for the NCHC Academic All-Conference...
Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this coming week. Jan. 10 1925 "Arrowhead" is selected as the official moniker for northeastern Minnesota, the result of a nationwide contest sponsored by the Northeastern Minnesota Civic and Commerce Association of Duluth. It renamed itself the Minnesota Arrowhead Association in July of 1925. 1975 A fierce blizzard strikes, bringing one to two feet of snow (with some drifts reaching 20 feet) and winds up to 80 miles per hour, closing most Minnesota...
My husband, Rod Walli, often and confidently says in Finnish: "Voin Korjata mitaan." It means "I can fix anything." He's not bragging. Just expressing confidence. I'm drafting at home. Morning light bounces off walls and a cathedral ceiling he built 17 years ago, enlarging the bungalow that Barb Walli designed and where they raised their boys, Gene and Mark. One time, a nosy drive-by neighbor asked "Why are your building an addition?" "For the baby," the 64-year old Rod answered, amused at the...
Thursday, Jan. 2 Boys Basketball Carlton-75 Two Harbors-66 Ben Soderstrom with 32 points, Matthew Santkuyl with 21 points and Ryan Gray with 13 points led the Bulldogs to the win over the Agates. Justin Swanson added four points. Adam Hey had three points and rounding out the scoring for the Bulldogs was Austin Parker with two points. Trent Gomez had a big night for the Agates with 27 points. Girls Basketball Barnum-54 Two Harbors-53 The Bombers held a slim one-point lead at halftime and were able to fend off the Agates on Thursday night. MaKen...
The current Minnesota Conservation Volunteer Magazine has a 10-page article complete with photographs of our own Julie Collman and her husband, Bob Baker, as they snowmobile, and snowshoe for Big Brook Trout in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Author Michael Dvorak did an excellent job of writing the article and I’m sure he was thrilled to be spending time with Julie and Bob doing what they love doing: fishing. Pine Knot News outdoors writer Bret Baker also wrote about the couple ...
Thursday, Dec. 26 Boys Hockey Blaine-5 CEC-3 Christian Galatz scored 2 goals for the ’Jacks, but it wasn’t enough to overcome a three-goal second period for the Bengals. Aaron Moore added the third goal for CEC and also assisted on the first goal from Galatz. Galatz scored just 25 seconds into the game, but Blaine hammered home three goals in the second to gain a 3-2 lead entering the final period. Park Rapids-6 Moose Lake Area-4 The Rebels fell behind 2-0 after one period and 5-1 after two periods. They rallied in the final period only to fal...
In just a few days we’ll welcome 2020, a bright New Year that promises certain prosperity and success for all. We at Pine Knot News are sure to have an exciting, news-filled year. And we’re certainly excited to share it with you. There’s a national election, where we’ll either choose a new President or keep the current one. And there are issues that interest us all from immigration to national defense, taxation, global warming and gun rights, from the Super Bowl to the World Series, along with the latest important gossip from Hollywood and the...
Thursday, Dec. 12 Girls Hockey Hibbing-Chisholm-6 Moose Lake Area-5 (OT) Elyssa Durie of Hibbing-Chisholm scored just 16 seconds into the overtime session to give the Bluejackets the win. The Rebels led 3-2 after the first period on goals by Gabby Gamst and two goals by Jamie Benzie. Hibbing scored the only two goals of the second period and led 4-3 entering the third, but back-to-back goals by Sandra Ribich and Savannah Gamst gave the Rebels a 5-4 lead with a little over 10 minutes to play in regulation before the Bluejackets tied the game up...
Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this coming week. Dec. 13 1994 Demolition begins on the Metropolitan Sports Center in Bloomington, former home of the North Stars professional hockey team and venue for entertainment events. Dec. 15 1864 Four Minnesota regiments help destroy the Confederate army of General John Bell Hood outside Nashville. During the course of this two-day battle, the Minnesota losses — 302 killed, wounded, or missing —are the greatest the state suffers in any Civil War engagement. 1892 J. Paul Getty is born in Min...
Minnesota Public Radio Minnesota regulators said Friday they plan to conduct their own independent environmental review of the proposed Twin Metals Minnesota copper-nickel mine, rather than collaborating on a joint review with federal regulators. Twin Metals has yet to file its mine plan of operations — which will detail the specifics of the operation, from its physical footprint to how it will handle waste material. That will kick-start the environmental review process. The project has already come under fire for its close proximity to the pri...
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...
It was a tough couple of games for the Minnesota Wilderness this past weekend. The North American Hockey League Wilderness dropped back-to-back games to the Minot Minotauros by scores of 6-3 and 4-3 at Northwoods Credit Union Arena. In opening-game action on Friday, the Minotauros steamrolled to a 3-0 first period lead with18 shots on the Wilderness net. "We just came out flat in the first period," said Wilderness head coach Jon Vaillancourt. "They are a very good squad; they outskated us and...
It was a tough weekend for the Minnesota Wilderness hockey team, which dropped both games of its weekend matchup with the Aberdeen Wings. The Wilderness fell 4-3 in the opener on Friday night and 4-0 on Saturday at home at Northwoods Credit Union Arena. In Friday's opening game, the Wilderness took a 1-0 lead after the first period on a goal by Eric Fawkes - his third of the season - on assists from Gavin Rassmussen and Ryan Nelson, who both played high school hockey for Cloquet-Esko-Carlton....
The Minnesota Wilderness had another packed weekend of hockey with three straight games over the weekend, all in Minnesota. Thursday night, the Wilderness battled Austin on home ice in Cloquet. Kimball Johnson and Nate Horn netted goals in regulation against the Bruins for a 2-2 tie. With no goals in overtime, the teams ended the weekday night with a shootout. Wilderness goalie Kaleb Johnson shut out the Bruins attempts and Zach Michaelis ended the game for the Wilderness, scoring the only shootout goal of the night. The following night, the...
News that the ice plant in “The Barn” — the city’s oldest hockey arena — had leaked as much as 5,000 pounds of R-22 refrigerant came as a shock to Cloquet city officials earlier this month. So did the price tag. At $10 a pound, the cost to replace 5,000 pounds of R-22 is $50,000. Councilors balked at paying that kind of bill without more information at their Oct. 1 meeting, and requested a special meeting with area hockey officials to find out more about the cooling system itself, use of the ri...
The Minnesota Wilderness swept the Minot Minotauros in their home opener series in Cloquet last weekend. Friday night was a night full of red lights, as the Wilderness topped the Minotauros 7-6 in a shootout. Nate Horn opened up his third season for the Wilderness with a hat trick. Veterans Nick Ports, Jake Herter and Tyler Watkins also netted goals, leading the team to overtime. With no goals ending the game in OT, Kimball Johnson buried a shootout goal, securing the win for the Wilderness. On...
Community Memorial Hospital and Raiter Clinic are joining forces, with the goal of keeping independent local health care thriving in the Cloquet area. The merger came as a surprise for many, some who assumed that the two entities were already operating together. The two have a long history of collaboration, said Raiter Clinic administrator Craig Ward. "This partnership is a natural fit for the community," Ward said. Dr. Jim Rogers, a Raiter Clinic physician, sees it as a positive move for...
The Minnesota Wilderness opened the North American Hockey League season with a bang this past week. After losing the opening game on Wednesday, the Wilderness exploded to win three straight games at the NAHL Showcase tournament in Blaine. On Wednesday, the Wilderness opened with a hard-fought 2-1 loss to Topeka to open the tournament. Nate Horn scored the lone goal for the Wilderness and goaltender Ryan Ouellette made 18 saves in a valiant effort for the Cloquet-based squad. "Topeka was a tough...
For the third time in three years, the Minnesota Wilderness junior hockey team has made a coaching change. On Friday, the Wilderness announced that Jon Vaillancourt will take over for Dave Boitz, who will continue on in his role of general manager. A year ago Boitz stepped into a dual role as both the GM and the head coach of the Cloquet-based North American Hockey League team, following the departure of Tim Madsen, who left after two seasons to become the head coach of the St. Scholastica...
While National Night Out started in 1984 as a way to bring neighborhoods and local law enforcement together under positive circumstances, in Cloquet it’s about bringing the entire community and police together. Either way, the idea is the same: helping neighbors meet, improving relations and making an experience less traumatic when police and citizens meet under more urgent circumstances. The Cloquet police department will hold its fifth annual National Night Out community event 5-8 p.m. T...
A closed session to consider allegations against a city employee was canceled Tuesday after CAT-7 coordinator Eric Lipponen, mayor Roger Maki and the city’s human resources director James Barclay disappeared down a back hallway for a few minutes prior to the formal Cloquet City Council meeting. Lipponen confirmed afterward that he had been the subject of the proposed closed meeting, and that the three men and Lipponen’s wife, Becca Lindberg, had arranged for a meeting Thursday to discuss a numbe...
"Listening Point tells of what I have seen and heard on a bare glaciated spit of rock in the Quetico-Superior country... From it I have seen the immensity of space and glimpsed at times the grandeur of creation. There I have sensed the span of uncounted centuries and looked down the path all life has come. I have explored on this rocky bit of shore the great concept that nothing stands alone and everything, no matter how small, is part of a greater whole." Hello. I am Pastor Charles (CJ) Boettch...
"April is the cruelest month," T. S. Elliot penned in his masterpiece, "Four Quartets." When I moved back to Minnesota in 1999, my brother warned me that November, March and April were the worst for outdoors lovers. But I've found my consolations: ice skating and trail clearing in November and spring cross-country skiing in March and April. April is the month that great birding commences. Northwestern Carlton County hosts wonderful viewing sites during April waterfowl and May warbler and...
To say that tough times have fallen on the Minnesota Wilderness is putting it far too mildly. The Wilderness have suffered nine straight losses. And last weekend they were eliminated from the North American Hockey League playoffs after being swept at home 3-1 and 6-2 by the Bismarck Bobcats. On Friday night the Wilderness fell behind 1-0 just 2:38 into the game when Tim Piechowski of the Bobcats picked up a goal assisted by Willy Stauber and Jacob Marti. The Wilderness evened the game at the...
