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The spring sports season wrapped up with what has become a fan and player favorite for all - the Polar League All Star baseball and softball games. Things kicked off Friday at Wade Stadium in West Duluth with the boys taking the spotlight first, facing off as the Polar Blue All Stars vs. the Polar Silver All Stars. From Carlton County, the Blue All Stars featured James LeGarde of Esko, Ryan Gray and Tanner Anderson of the Carlton Bulldogs, Mason Lane of the South Ridge Panthers, and Wyatt...
If you missed the last educational forum on e-cigarettes and vaping, don’t worry. The Minnesota Department of Health is hosting two free Tobacco 21 Education Forums Tuesday, June 25. The first forum is 12-1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Cloquet High School Auditorium, 1000 18th St., with lunch provided. The second runs 5:30-7 p.m. at the Moose Lake School Auditorium, 4812 County Road 10, with appetizers provided....
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). Sloan, William Joshua, 40, Cloquet, violation of protective order, felony. Sentenced to St. Cloud for 24 months on May 17. CPD Richards, Trenton Alexander, 28, Mahtowa, first-degree possession of cocaine or m...
Few Carlton County taxpayers attended local boards of review to contest — or at least ask questions about — the estimated market value for the buildings and land they own. Land values continue to improve with a typical 40-acre piece valued at $1900 per acre, which is a 6.5 percent increase from last year. The County Board of Appeal and Equalization, made up of the current county commissioners, met Monday, June 17 with only one homeowner from the city of Carlton appearing in person about his property value. Most concerned property taxpayers had...
The Moose Lake Area Historical Society is sponsoring 1918 Fire Site narrated bus tours on July 6, 2019. The morning tour will feature interesting fire sites around Moose Lake and the surrounding area west of town, including Dead Man’s Corner. Boarding is at 9 a.m. at the Depot Museum. A bag lunch will be served upon return at 11:30 a.m. The afternoon narrated tour will start with a bag lunch at 11:30 a.m. at the Soo Line Event Center, then boarding at 1 p.m. The tour covers the outlying areas o...
It’s probably been more than 20 years since there was an active Carlton County fastpitch softball league. I thought about it the other day when I was driving down Minnesota Highway 210 toward Cromwell and passed the old Iverson Inn ballfield. The inn, a bar and restaurant that grilled great hamburgers and served ice-cold beer, burned down to the ground many years ago. The adjacent ball field still has a backstop today but does not resemble the field where I had the privilege of playing f...
Juhannus Finnish midsummer festival 2-5 p.m. Sunday, June 23, Sampo Beach on Little Grand Lake, 7095 Saginaw Road, Saginaw. Finnish music, games, art projects, Mölkky tournament, swimming, sauna, campfire. Free, family-friendly, alcohol-free. Coffee, pulla and sima available. Feel free to bring food for roasting over the campfire. Food available for purchase from grill trailer. All welcome. [email protected], [email protected] District 5M10 Lions Clubs information sessions and membership recruitment for a new Lions Club in Cloquet are 4-...
A light mist began to fall at 11 a.m., just as riders began to roll their bicycles onto the Munger Trail from the Northern Pacific Junction shelter in Carlton. The occasion was the Carlton County Community Bike Ride on June 9. Organizers were concerned that the cool, wet weather might dampen enthusiasm for the second annual event. With multiple access points to the trail, it would be difficult to know right away how much impact the weather might be having on the turnout. At about the same time t...
With the Great Recession firmly in the rearview mirror, local governmental bodies are eyeing and undertaking building projects that many say are long overdue. In most cases, they're correct. Still, the question of how to fund a public building boom has elected officials scratching their heads, and taxpayers worried that property taxes are going to make their homes unaffordable. In Carlton County - and particularly Cloquet - there are so many big-dollar current and proposed projects, it can be...
Tim Franklin sold his group of northern Minnesota weekly papers to Northstar Media, Cambridge. Included in the sale were the Moose Lake Star Gazette, the Hinckley News, the Pine County Courier in Sandstone, the Askov American, the Evergreen shopper and the Minnesota Flyer aviation magazine, along with Hinckley Print and a variety of related web and mobile sites, events and niche products. Franklin said he was thrilled to find another family owner to purchase his publishing business. Northstar is owned by Gene and Carter Johnson. They run a...
Have you ever picked up a really interesting rock and wondered what it was and how it was made? Well, I have, and still do. Each rock tells a story about its creation: when it was made, how it was made, where it was made, and how it got to its finding spot. As I learn more about rock creation, I become interested in all rocks, even the plain ones. One rock that is definitely not plain is our state gemstone, the Lake Superior agate. While visiting my son and his family in Omaha last week, my gran...
In late May, Emily Swanson of Carlton’s Oldenburg House and I journeyed to Jackson, Miss., for a week of deep and lively conversations on how arts and culture transform our communities. Hundreds joined the two back-to-back conferences. One convened a decade’s worth of ArtPlace America’s grantees and admirers. The second, the Rural Summit, pulled together rural development folks from across the country. We competed to win workshop slots pondering how arts home-comers or newcomers, like us, can u...
Softball The Minnesota State High School League’s Girls Softball State Tournament, played annually since 1977, began Thursday and runs through today at Caswell Park in North Mankato. Here is a snapshot look at the tournament: Class A Thursday, June 6 Quarterfinals • South Ridge (18-5) vs. No. 1 New York Mills (23-2), 1 p.m. • No. 5 Badger/Greenbush-Middle River (21-4) vs. No. 4 Waterville- Elysian-Morristown (22-0), 1 p.m. • Isle (18-3) vs. No. 2 Randolph (22-2), 1 p.m. • New Ulm Cathedral (22-2) vs. No. 3 Edgerton/SW MN Christian (17-5), 1...
Area qualifiers for the Class A State Track & Field Meet in St. Paul this week. • Girls 100 meter dash: Reese Miletich, Barnum (first) • Girls 4x100 meter relay: Gracie Nelson, Brooke Doran, Danna Weets, Reese Miletich, Makenzee Schleret, of Barnum (second) • Girls 4x200 meter relay: Mikayla Mellesmoen, Sophie Lenz, Courteney Sajdak, Jaden Ellefson, Taylore Mejdrich, Kenna Ridge, of South Ridge/Cherry/Northwoods (second) • Girls pole vault: Skyla Thompson, Moose Lake/Willow River (second...
Anne Marie Chelin-Anderson, 57, Holyoke, was sentenced to 90 days in jail on May 23 by Judge Robert Macauley in the Carlton County Court. The sentence was stayed with conditions. Chelin-Anderson had been charged with two counts of criminal sexual conduct of an inmate in a correctional facility, both felonies, for an offense on or about April 23, 2018. The criminal complaint stated that Chelin-Anderson, a teacher of an employment class for inmates at the Moose Lake prison, had made sexual...
Congratulations, graduates. And there are so many of you. With nine high schools in Carlton County, there are nine graduation ceremonies to attend. Barnum and Esko both hold their ceremonies tonight, May 31. Wrenshall, Carlton, Cromwell-Wright, Fond du Lac and Cloquet all held ceremonies last Friday, May 24. Moose Lake matriculated its students last Sunday, May 26, in an afternoon ceremony and the Cloquet Area Alternative Education Program held its graduation program the afternoon of May 23. In our view, attending a graduation ceremony brings...
Ready, set, start a tradition. The second annual Carlton County Community Bike Ride is set for trails across Carlton County Saturday, June 9. Beginning at 11 a.m., there will be treats, food, activities for all ages, entertainment and, most importantly, water, at all four rest stops on the Munger Trail: the DNR pavilion in Carlton, TJ’s Country Corner in Mahtowa, the Munger Trail parking lot in Barnum and the Historic Train Depot in Moose Lake. This year two different homegrown bands will be performing at different spots along the trail. The La...
The 2019 Dollars for Scholars recipients and the folks and businesses that made the scholarships possible are: Madisyn Anderson, $1,700 – The Mercy Foundation, Koivisto Trucking, Jeff and Lynn Swatek, Beehive Community Club, Cromwell Medical Clinic, Cromwell-Wright Dollars for Scholars, Nextgen Foundation Isaac Shelton, $1,600 – Irving Community Association, Rudy Nikko and the Nikko family in memory of Karen (Karppinen) Nikko, David A. Winegar, DDS, Wenstrom Insurance Agency, Friends in mem...
Esko is marching toward a possible fourth consecutive Section 7AA softball title after a 4-3 win over Proctor in the winner’s bracket final Tuesday in Grand Rapids. Miranda Kelley shut down the Rails’ vaunted offense giving up just eight hits in seven innings. Kelley also bashed out three hits, scored two runs and doubled in helping the Eskomos stay in the Class AA winners bracket. Kristy DeMuth had two hits and doubled for the winners and also had a pair of RBIs. The Rails turned around and...
Baseball playoffs Tuesday, May 28 Section 7A South Ridge-24 Floodwood-3 (Floodwood eliminated) Cherry-16 Wrenshall-4 (Wrenshall eliminated) South Ridge-9 Cherry-0 Carlton-4 Silver Bay-3 (Silver Bay eliminated) Section 7AA Duluth Marshall-18 Two Harbors-0 (Two Harbors eliminated) Moose Lake/Willow River-12 Crosby-Ironton-6 (C-I eliminated) Duluth Marshall-19 Moose Lake/Willow River -1 (ML-WR eliminated) Eveleth-Gilbert-5 International Falls-4 (International Falls eliminated) Greenway-2 Proctor-1...
The Esko boys track team triumphed in the 7A subsection meet May 23, coming in 44.5 points ahead of second-place Barnum, with 128.5 points to Barnum's 84. Moose Lake/Willow River took third with 81 points and Two Harbors took fourth. On the girls side, Proctor took first (87)and Two Harbors came in second with 81 points. Esko placed third with 76 points, and Cromwell-Wright tied Duluth Marshall for fourth place with 72. There were plenty of individual wins by Carlton County athletes, including...
Most people like pickles. Whether it's genuine dill pickles or kosher, sweet, bread and butter, or Gherkin ... nearly all have a favorite pickle. But for a growing number of Cloquet and Carlton County residents, their favorite pickle would be a game called pickleball. And it has nothing to do with pickled cucumbers. Pickleball is a relatively new game. It originated in 1965 in the backyard of a home in a suburb of Seattle called Bainbridge Island. Several gents came home after a round of golf...
By the end of next week, Paul Gassert will retire from his job as Carlton County auditor/treasurer. Gassert has been with the county since 1990 and is one of the longest-serving elected officials in the county. Gassert announced his decision to retire effective May 31 at the tail end of the Carlton County Board of Commissioners meeting on May 14. Chairman Dick Brenner said Gassert's announcement caught the County Board completely by surprise. "Thinking about it after the shock was over, I...
On Memorial Day weekend, we honor those who have died serving in the U.S. military. While Esko's Dale Erickson survived his stint in the Korean War, he came home a different person. "Some Marines never find their souls again," he writes in his memoir. "A part of them remains missing for the rest of their lives and they forever struggle." The memoir details relentless battles, dead bodies and near-death experiences. As we approach Memorial Day, a time when we honor our military veterans for the...
The Eskomos boys track team captured the 2019 Polar League Track and Field Championship crown last week in Esko while the girls team took a close second to Two Harbors. The Esko boys finished ahead of Two Harbors with a team total of 145.5 points while the Agates ended with 88 points, one point ahead of the third-place Moose Lake-Willow River Rebels. Barnum took fourth place for the boys teams. Esko’s Sam Rengo was a two-event winner on the boys side, capturing the 800-meter race with a time o...
