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The Thomson Township board of supervisors approved crack sealing and restriping for both the town hall building parking lot and the fire department’s parking lot, along with other roads throughout the township, during their meeting Thursday, May 5. The crack repair, sealing, and restriping of the parking lots has not been done since before the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to township engineer Joe Jurewicz. Some board members were concerned about the price increase from previous repairs, but Jurewicz assured them the township i...
The Arrowhead Library System’s bookmobile will make the rounds in the area soon: • Esko, 10:15-10:45 a.m. at Northwood United Methodist Church June 20 • Proctor, 12:15-1:15 p.m. at St. Rose Church May 26, June 16 -Proctor, 2-2:45 p.m. at Community Center May 26, June 16 • Solway Township, 3:15-4:15 at Solway Town Hall on Munger Shaw Road May 26, June 16...
Esko students, from kindergarteners to the senior class, have a lot to be proud of, according to school principals and superintendent Aaron Fischer. High school principal Greg Hexum reported to the Esko school board at its meeting Monday that high school seniors have received over $2.5 million in scholarships to pursue secondary education after graduation. According to Hexum, more than $170,000 in local scholarships were awarded at the annual Esko Educational Foundation’s scholarship night. The remaining scholarships, totalling about $2.5 m...
The Cloquet Forestry Center has hit the big time. Well, it really has already made a name for itself in scientific circles. Researchers there are always happy to share what they are working on and when National Geographic came calling, they were more than agreeable to talk about its decade of work on deciphering just what northern Minnesota's forests may look like as the climate changes. Two photographs taken from the forestry center are featured in an article in the May edition of National...
New Wine is back and better than ever, with 7 p.m. performances of "Bright Star" running nightly (beginning Wednesday) through Sunday, May 15 at Zion Lutheran Church. Featuring a toe-tapping gospel/bluegrass score by actor/comedian/banjo player Steve Martin and singer/songwriter Edie Brickell of the New Bohemians, "Bright Star" is set in North Carolina and is inspired by a true story. Spanning decades, it tells the heartbreaking yet uplifting saga of literary editor Alice Murphy. When Alice...
Cloquet school district officials have some challenges on their hands in planning for the next few school years, thanks to a “bubble” of large classes that will be entering the high school and continued fluctuations in enrollment likely caused by the pandemic, according to superintendent Michael Cary. During Monday’s Cloquet school board meeting, Cary presented the board with proposals for budget changes in the 2022-23 budget year, which begins in July. In total, district staff are recom...
Carlton County commissioners got a taste of some of the challenges they will face in crafting a budget for 2023 at Tuesday’s board meeting. “Fuel costs are at $4 and rising,” said county coordinator Dennis Genereau. “The rise of gas and fuel prices impacts everything we do in the programs we run.” Genereau explained that the costs to run the new justice center are still in the planning stage. Another groundskeeper and at least a couple of custodians are being considered. Additional staff for the Sheriff’s Office and the court system are...
When a contest needs triple overtime to determine a winner, it's usually been well-played and exciting for everyone, and maybe a little luck was involved. That's exactly what happened last Friday morning at the fifth annual Battle of the Books held in the Cloquet High School auditorium. Fourth-grade students from Cloquet's Washington Elementary, Churchill Elementary, and a group visiting from Ely gathered to compete in front of more than 100 audience members. After about 40 minutes of...
Barnum High School Quarter 3 A HONOR ROLL Grade 7 Tessa Bednarek Eli Berger Faith Bernhardson Marlene Budge Natalie Carlson Emma Dahl Lily Dahl Ruth Dinger Connor Ferrin Lillian Genereau Jillian Grott Piper Johnson Halle Kauppila Arie Koecher Ali Laveau Lucy Maher Reuben Olson-Williams Nora Piri Miah Sandberg Lauren Soukkala Elijah Wendt Jlind White-Wyman Grade 8 Alizondra Collelo Cadence Fanning Lucy Franek Sophia Frank Grace Grover Eoghan Heaslip Michael Hoover Evan Mundell MaKenna Nordstrom Morghan Nynas Ava Nyquist Iris Polecheck Isabelle...
Cloquet is one of four northeastern Minnesota sites slated for treatment of spongy (gypsy) moth infestations this summer. The four proposed treatment areas include approximately 75 acres in the city of Duluth, nearly 500 acres in Cloquet, and two areas in Lake County totaling approximately 45,100 acres. Spongy moths are ranked among America's most destructive tree pests. The insect has caused millions of dollars in damage to forests as it has spread from New England to Wisconsin in recent...
The National Weather Service in Duluth has issued a flood warning for the St. Louis River at Scanon until 1 p.m. Wednesday. Moderate flooding is forecast. At 10.5 feet, minor flooding occurs near Scanlon. At 1:30 PM CDT Friday the stage was 10.1 feet. According to the NWS, the river is expected to rise above flood stage late Friday evening to a crest of 11.4 feet Sunday morning. It will then fall below flood stage early Wednesday morning. This crest compares to a previous crest of 11.2 feet on...
While gray days dominated the month of April outside, art students at Cloquet Middle School were creating a scene of spectacular color and warmth inside a second floor hallway. Their new mural measures 9 feet high and 30 feet long, and features two young people working in a garden, lots of flowers, bees, and butterflies. Like a garden, the mural wasn't created overnight. First, the students learned about bees and pollinators from the NE Minnesota Beekeepers Association, then about food...
On the first day of a first-of-its-kind public hearing this week on the fate of a key permit for the proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recommended against reissuing the permit, saying the project risked increasing levels of mercury and other pollutants in the St. Louis River downstream from the proposed mine. While only a recommendation, it could deal a potentially severe blow to the controversial $1 billion mine proposed near the northeastern... 
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Dennis Nelson brought in this photo of his maternal grandfather (back row, third from right) taken in the early 1900s. He figures it's a group of lumberjacks who went to the photography studio, where they borrowed suits for the occasion, but he's not sure. Nelson knows the identity of only two of the people pictured: his grandfather, Louis Flesvik Johnson, and his grandfather's brother, name unknown, who is pictured in the back row, first on the left. "He (LFJ) came here in 1903 from Norway. He...
Prior to winning the state championship last Wednesday, April 27, members of the Cloquet High School Econ Team ran past cheering crowds in the hallways of the high school ... dressed in two-piece suits and carrying giant binders filled with study guides. The school did everything it normally does for a sports team bound for state, even providing a police escort (school officer Elijah Haglund, who jogged down the hallways behind them). Then the team got down to business, pulling up chairs around...
Southgate Pizza owner Sandra Lee said she is closing the popular pizzeria later this month, after operating it since July 2019. The last day will be May 14. Southgate is located next to Anytime Fitness in the Premiere Theatres mall at 918 Highway 33 South in Cloquet. “It’s probably the hardest decision I’ve ever made,” Less said. “We had enough community support and we made it through Covid, so it’s not that. It basically comes down to my health.” Lee also cited difficulty finding staff and increased product and lease costs as consideration...
Many children have some catching up to do with vaccines. To help with that, Carlton County Public Health will hold a free vaccine clinic for kids ages 11-18 from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. May 10 at the Carlton County Community Services Building, 14 North 11th Street. There is no charge. Insurance information will be collected and insurance billed if possible, but there is no charge if the child is uninsured. Available vaccines will include Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis), meningococcal conjugate, HPV (human papillomavirus), Covid-19 and...
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College will celebrate its first in-person graduation ceremony at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 12, in the college gymnasium. In total, 123 students are candidates to receive an associate in arts, associate in fine arts, associate in science, or associate in applied science degree from Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College this year. Student speakers will be Sarah Durfee and Janice Sherman....
Cloquet city councilors took a step toward purchasing body-worn cameras and new stun guns by voting to accept a $38,000 grant Tuesday night, but acknowledged if they go through with the purchase, it will mean significant expense to the city and its taxpayers. If approved, the estimated cost of a package deal for body-worn cameras — which the department doesn’t have — and new stun guns to replace the almost obsolete equipment used now, is more than $205,000 over five years, with the grant money included. At the end of the five years, the depar...
The Cloquet Area Chamber of Commerce feted its own, at the group's annual banquet Thursday at the Black Bear Casino Resort. A crowd of at least 180 members gathered for a social hour, dinner, entertainment and awards to the organization's most involved members. The Chamber large business of the year award was presented to Frandsen Bank & Trust in Cloquet, and the Chamber small business of the year award went to Forum Communications' Pine Journal. There was no Chamber volunteer of the year...
MnDOT will end spring load restrictions in various frost zones on the following dates: Restrictions in the southeast and metro frost zones ended Monday, May 2, at 12:01 a.m. Restrictions in the south frost zone end Friday, May 6, at 12:01 a.m. Restrictions in the central frost zone end Friday, May 13, at 12:01 a.m. Restrictions in the north-central and north frost zones end Monday, May 16, at 12:01 a.m. The sign erected on the roadway governs the load limit in effect....
Nearly 700 people turned out Sunday morning for Harold's Flippin' Flapjack Fiasco, which raised close to $9,000 for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in its 10th year. On Tuesday, event founder Harold Ankrum said money is still coming in, after a supporter stopped by Harold's Service in Carlton to donate $100 to the cause. Ankrum said people like to support St. Jude's cancer research, but they also like the pancakes. "A lot of it is J.J.'s Family Tradition pancakes recipe," Ankrum said of...
Considering a run for political office? The filing period for state and local offices — only those that could require primary elections in August — will be open May 17-31. The city of Cloquet has four positions up for election in November, including the mayor and council seats for Wards 1, 2 and 3. All are four-year positions. Carlton County also has a number of positions up for election this year, including county commissioners for District 2 (Thomson Township area) and District 4 (including the Wrenshall, Carlton and Mahtowa area and parts of...
Nearly 40 student patrols from Winterquist Elementary School in Esko and Washington Elementary School in Cloquet got a big thank-you from local veterans organizations Monday for a job well done. Each patrol member was presented with a certificate signed by the VFW commander and auxiliary president and a silver dollar, and they got to enjoy all the Sammy's Pizza they wanted with their fellow volunteers. They also learned about the American flag and the prisoner of war display during their visit...
Esko High School Quarter 3 Honor Roll Bella Abrahamson Kyle Abrahamson Emma Adkins Kaitlyn Adkins Ashley Aker Rachel Amireault Keone Anderson Siri Anderson Santiago Anich Rachel Antonutti Lucye Backstrom Ellahna Barnes Ellynor Barta Joel Barta Alena Beare Mollie Belich Aspen Berg Hunter Berg Cadence Berger Cairin Berger Cuinn Berger Cal Berglund Leah Borden Emma Breed Ahna Brekke Cadence Brissett Braeden Caple Priya Carey Amber Carlblom Emma Cekalla Joseph Cekalla Samuel Cheslak Ayden Chopskie Jordan Chopskie Megan Chopskie Ty Christensen...
