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Thank goodness Easter came later this year. Had it fallen a week earlier, the parking lot at Cloquet's Pine Valley would have been covered in snow. Instead, the day was bright and sunny - although there were still puddles to be jumped in - offering children and their parents the warmest Easter egg hunt since the city of Cloquet, Cloquet Chamber of Commerce and Cloquet Community Ed started the free annual event seven years ago. Brightly colored plastic eggs littered the ground at the woodland...
The Easter Bunny is coming to Cloquet’s Pine Valley Park Saturday, April 20. Thousands of eggs will be hidden, all redeemable for candy. Special golden eggs can be exchanged for prizes. The free Easter egg hunt starts at 11 a.m. and is age-based, with areas for age 1 through Pre-K, kindergarten through second grade, and third through fifth grades. This annual event is coordinated by the Cloquet Area Chamber of Commerce, Cloquet Community Education and the city of Cloquet. Kids can also get pictures taken with the Easter Bunny. Families are e...
Softball season is here and the Pine Knot will be covering your local high school fast-pitch teams this spring. Here is a preview to the small-school softball teams in our area. CARLTON: Carlton coach Melissa Clark is in only her third season, but the Bulldogs head coach has led her team to the state tournament in her first two seasons at the helm and it certainly looks like she has the inside track on a third straight trip to Mankato. The Bulldogs lost only two players from a team that...
On Feb. 23 and 24, ski jumpers from the Cloquet Ski Club competed in the 2019 Central Junior Ski Jumping Championships. The cold and wind did not deter the more than 20 local jumpers from competing on all six jumps, ranging from the 5-foot jump dubbed "Sue's Slide," all the way up to the towering 70-meter jump. The Cloquet Ski Club members had strong showings in a deep field including brothers Simon (8-meter) and Isaiah (15-meter) Langer who won their age group. By winning, the Langer boys were...
Get ready, kids! The Easter Bunny is coming to Cloquet’s Pine Valley Park Saturday, April 20. Egg hunts begin at 11 a.m. Thousands of eggs will be hidden, with special golden eggs for a few lucky prize winners. The free Easter egg hunt is age-based, with areas for ages 1 through Pre-K, kindergarten through second grade, and third- through fifth grades. This annual event is coordinated by the Cloquet Area Chamber of Commerce, Cloquet Community Education and the City of Cloquet. Kids can get their pictures taken with the Easter Bunny, too. F...
Get ready, kids! The Easter Bunny is coming to Cloquet’s Pine Valley Park Saturday, April 20. Egg hunts begin at 11 a.m. Thousands of eggs will be hidden with special golden eggs for a few lucky prize winners. The free Easter egg hunt is age-based, with areas for ages 1-Preschool, kindergarten through second grade and grades 3-5. This annual event is coordinated by Cloquet Area Chamber of Commerce, Cloquet Community Education and the City of Cloquet. Kids can get their pictures taken with the Easter Bunny, too. Families are still encouraged t...
The Pine Knot is delighted to be exhibiting Dr. Lloyd Backus' watercolors in our downtown Cloquet gallery through April. I recently sat down with Lloyd, surrounded by his paintings. Lloyd was family physician for my Uncle Sidney, Aunt Laurel and cousins Martha, RuthAnn, Jana and David Markusen, helping them through births and a series of health challenges. The retired doctor has lived a fascinating life so far. Backus was born in China. His father was a medical missionary, working on behalf of...
BRAINERD -The Cromwell-Wright boys basketball team survived a couple of comeback attempts by their Section 5A quarterfinal opponent Tuesday night but held off Browerville- Eagle Valley 47-42. The Cardinal win set up a rematch against Nevis in the north subsection championship (essentially the section semifinals) in Brainerd Wednesday night, a game that was not finished when The Pine Knot News went to press. On Tuesday, Cromwell-Wright saw a nine-point lead disappear early in the second half,...
The timing couldn't have been better. The conditions were perfect this year for the annual Cloquet City Ski Meet, an event featuring both ski jumping and Nordic ski races at Pine Valley. The sun was out, the temperatures were cold enough to keep the snow frozen, but not cold enough to freeze tiny fingers and toes. It hadn't rained yet. And the congenial atmosphere at the meet was just as sunny as the weather. In addition to the many members of the now thriving Cloquet Ski Club - which meets...
They were a small but hardy crew who competed in Saturday's Frozen Forester triathlon or 5K race at Pine Valley. Organizer and forester Tim Krohn said the triathlon had six entrants and four finishers. The triathlon included a 6.8-mile ski, 4.6-mile pedal (on fat-tire bikes, of course), and a 3.1-mile no-shoe/snowshoe run. There were bonus time deductions for wearing plaid and bringing soup. The Frozen Forester 5K race started later and followed the Frozen Forester's ribbon line through the wood...
When asked who her Nordic combined female role models are, Cloquet eighth-grader Charlotte Ripp doesn't have a quick answer. She can name her favorite ski jumpers or Nordic skiers, but the truth is, Ripp is part of the first generation of girls to compete in Nordic combined, which combines both sports. Women jumpers broke new ground when they competed in the 2014 Olympics. Nordic combined isn't even an Olympic sport yet for women, although this was the first year for women's Nordic combined Cup...
Hardy northern folk are encouraged to participate in the Frozen Forester Winter Triathlon on Saturday, March 2 at Pine Valley Recreation Area in Cloquet. Explore the Pine Valley trails with a 6.8-mile ski, 4.6-mile pedal, and a 3.1-mile no-shoe/snowshoe run. The event consists of two laps on the Pine Valley ski trail, two laps on the new mountain bike trail, and it starts at 9 a.m. The Frozen Forester 5K race starts at 11 a.m. and follows the Frozen Forester’s ribbon line through the woods off- and on-trail. There is a relay option for those w...
Hello again, we are in a winter wonderland, and I love it. As long as it is winter it might as well snow a little bit. I was going to continue my discussion on peat bogs this week, but my peat guy in Cromwell had to cancel our interview. No problem, so many things to wonder about. Yesterday I went cross-country skiing with two of my grandkids, ages 5 and 8. Halfway through our ski, I built a little ski jump off to the side and watched as they soared 12 feet through the air and landed on their...
JHardy northern folk are encouraged to participate in the Frozen Forester Winter Triathlon on Saturday, March 2 at Pine Valley Recreation Area in Cloquet. What is a winter triathlon? In this case, it includes Nordic skiing, fat tire biking and snowshoeing (or just running/walking in your boots, whatever works). Organizer Tim Krohn said the Frozen Forester Ski-Bike-Shoe is a family-friendly event to help introduce the new Pine Valley mountain bike trail. Unlike last year's Lost Forester race,...
Kids in snow pants and race suits were flying off the ski jumps at the Joe Nowak Ski Area all weekend long, as the Cloquet Ski Club hosted back-to-back competitions on Saturday and Sunday at the city's Pine Valley Park. Skiers, jumpers and their coaches traveled to Cloquet from three different states - Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois - representing seven different teams in the Central Division for ski jumping and Nordic combined. Of course, there were even more homegrown Cloquet competitors,...
Cloquet City Councilors got mixed news about money Tuesday night - and in some cases the bad news came on the flip side of the coin. Take the Cloquet Public Library, for example, and the happy news that it was offered a $784,000 library expansion grant from State of Minnesota, not quite the $1 million the city asked for. On the flip side is the fact that the grant is a matching one, so the city or some other agency must fund the other part of the estimated $2 million project. The previous...
How times have changed! The other day I attended a sports event and happened to spend much of the time talking to a couple of friends in the crowd. I use the term “crowd” loosely because it was more a small smattering of people than a crowd. One person I visited with remarked on how sad it is to go to high school games when the crowds are so small that it seems the only ones in the stands are moms, dads and other relatives of the kids on the court, ice, or whatever the venue may be. I wal...
Happy new year to you all. I was very happy to see the snow we received last week because I love solid water, and all the things we can do with it. Sliding with my grandkids, riding a snowmobile, skiing at Mont du Lac, jumping and skiing at Pine Valley, fishing on a frozen lake, skating across a pond or a rink, or just looking at it, are all some of the reasons why I really do enjoy winter. In some of our past adventures we traveled in time or became really small. This column is about...
Sleet falling on top of snow two days before the Lumberjacks invitational ski meet made for a fast race Tuesday. In fact, Cloquet senior Aidan Ripp may have set a record for the fastest 5.5K ever at Pine Valley, finishing the loop in 13:22.6, a full minute and 15 seconds ahead of the next competitor, Sam Stertz of Grand Rapids. The typically modest Ripp said he was fortunate Tuesday. "I got pretty lucky, because I didn't run into anybody at any bad times," he said. "I've definitely had races...
This is the cold, hard truth - changes are coming to Cloquet's Northwoods Credit Union Arena and the neighboring Pine Valley hockey arena, no matter what. The Cloquet ice hockey arenas are looking at a future that includes renovations to the tune of close to $3 million, City Administrator Aaron Reeves told the new Cloquet City Council at its first work session meeting Jan. 3. At the same meeting, he recommended the council consider taking over ownership of the arena from the Cloquet Area Hockey...
Mother Nature refused to let longtime Cloquet street and parks maintenance supervisor Les Peterson coast into retirement. Rather, she dumped more than 15 inches of snow on the city in less than a week. As a result, Peterson was out plowing alleyways in Cloquet Monday morning, his last day with the city after 18 years. Not a shy guy, Peterson was both behind the scenes and played a public role in creating and promoting some of the activities in the city parks. From designing a hay bale maze for...
With schools in Minnesota closed for the holiday break, most athletic teams in the state and in the area will be busy focusing on winter holiday tournaments or select games over the break. Not every coach chooses to compete over break. "We used to play in a tournament over the [holidays] but we decided not to and let the kids get a break, focus on getting healthy and get set for the second half of the season," said Moose Lake-Willow River boys basketball head coach Wes Cummings. However, if you...
BOYS BASKETBALL Carlton Bulldogs Friday, Jan. 4 7:15 pm at Floodwood Tuesday, Jan. 8 7:15 pm at Cromwell-Wright Friday, Jan. 11 7:15 pm at Two Harbors Cloquet Lumberjacks Saturday, Jan. 5 5:15 pm vs. Duluth East Tuesday, Jan. 8 7:15 pm at Ashland Thursday, Jan. 10 7:15 pm at Hermantown Cromwell-Wright Cardinals Friday, Jan. 4 6:15 pm at Silver Bay Tuesday, Jan. 8 7:15 pm vs. Carlton Friday, Jan. 11 7:15 pm at South Ridge Esko Eskomos Friday, Jan. 4 7:15 pm vs. Moose Lake/Willow River Saturday, Jan. 5 7:15 pm at Columbia Heights Tuesday, Jan....
BOYS BASKETBALL Carlton Bulldogs Friday, Jan. 4 7:15 pm at Floodwood Tuesday, Jan. 8 7:15 pm at Cromwell-Wright Friday, Jan. 11 7:15 pm at Two Harbors Cloquet Lumberjacks Saturday, Jan. 5 5:15 pm vs. Duluth East Tuesday, Jan. 8 7:15 pm at Ashland Thursday, Jan. 10 7:15 pm at Hermantown Cromwell-Wright Cardinals Friday, Jan. 4 6:15 pm at Silver Bay Tuesday, Jan. 8 7:15 pm vs. Carlton Friday, Jan. 11 7:15 pm at South Ridge Esko Eskomos Friday, Jan. 4 7:15 pm vs. Moose Lake/Willow River Saturday, Jan. 5 7:15 pm at Columbia Heights Tuesday, Jan....
Once again, the Cloquet-Esko-Carlton Nordic team has to charter two buses to get to its meets, because there are so many kids. In his first year as head coach, Arne Maijala said the sport just keeps growing in Cloquet, as it provides a good chance for kids to get outside and participate in a winter sport. The team is also a lot of fun, and Cloquet's Pine Valley offers a wonderful winter playground ... when there's enough snow to practice, which there isn't. In the meantime, he's got plenty of he...
