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Cloquet Area Fire District crews responded to a structure fire on the 700 block of 29th Street in Scanlon just after 2 p.m. Monday, March 28. Upon arrival, there was fire showing from the rear of the structure and extending into the eaves. Firefighters were on the scene for approximately two hours and determined the cause was accidental. There were no injuries. The CAFD also responded to a car fire and a kitchen fire on Saturday....
In a work session with Cloquet city council members Tuesday, members of the Cloquet broadband committee shared their personal and professional experiences with internet access in Cloquet, with a common conclusion: It’s not good enough. Their recommendation? Take the $300,000 the city has committed from America Rescue Plan Act funds and use that for an engineering study to identify a fiber system and costs for roughly $20,000, and use additional funds to secure and match larger grants that target broadband access. All four committee members s...
Judge Amy Lukasavitz's chambers is a work in progress. There are just a few personal touches in the office that was once the realm of fellow Carlton County Sixth Judicial District Court judge Rebekka Stumme, who moved into the chambers of retired judge Robert Macaulay. Lukasavitz was appointed to replace Macaulay last fall. While Stumme gets the larger chambers and a personal bathroom, the newest judge smiles while sitting in the light pouring in through the large courthouse windows in Carlton....
One of the two Cloquet women who had children taken from their custody in January appears ready to take her case to trial. Nicole Ammesmaki had what is called an admit/deny hearing Tuesday and her attorney stated that her client denies the court’s reasoning for taking her five children out of her home. The hearing also served to clear up questions Carlton County Sixth District judge Rebekka Stumme had regarding the complicated case. Ammesmaki, who by all accounts has cooperated fully with steps required to regain custody, also faces criminal c...
Cloquet police chief Derek Randall said Tuesday that police are still waiting for autopsy results for Amanda Cadotte, a 33-year-old Cloquet resident who died on March 3. According to a news release, Cloquet and Fond du Lac police departments, along with the Cloquet Area Fire District, responded to 956 Trettel Lane in Cloquet on a medical call at approximately 7:24 a.m. March 3. Cadotte was unresponsive and pronounced deceased at the scene. Cadotte is survived by four sons. Randall said the investigation hinges on the medical examiner’s r...
The Carlton County Sheriff’s Office is notifying the public that a 24-year-old man who is classified as a risk Level 3 sex offender will be living in Wrenshall Township effective April 7. Darren Tyler Dunn was previously convicted of engaging in sexual conduct and contact against known teenaged females. In each incident Dunn used a relationship of trust he had created to attain and exploit unmonitored access. He used attention and affection in his effort to manage his victims. Dunn has served his sentence and is transitioning in to the c...
Ice skaters of all ages are invited to skate for free with an Easter bunny from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 16 at Northwoods Credit Union Arena in Cloquet. Minnesota Wilderness hockey players will be skating as well and there will be music, prizes, a raffle, cookies, treat bags and take-and-make crafts. The Cloquet track and field team will serve a pancake breakfast 8-11 a.m at Carmen’s Restaurant. Breakfast is $5 and free for those age 4 and under. The event is coordinated by the City of Cloquet and Cloquet Community E...
The Barnum school board took unprecedented action to hire Bill Peel as a half-time shared superintendent during a special meeting on Thursday, March 31. Peel is also superintendent of the Willow River school district. “The opportunity presented itself to change to a half-time superintendent,” board chair Jessica Unkelhaeuser explained. “With that opportunity, we’ll be looking at a full-time high school principal and a full-time elementary principal.” The board passed a motion to change the original proposal of hiring a full-time superinte...
The Carlton Soil and Water Conservation District is hosting a new workshop in its efforts to protect property owners from forest fires. The “Learn to Become Firewise” program will take place 6:30 to 8 p.m. on April 26 at the Cloquet Public Library. The Firewise program addresses the risk of wildland fires to homes in wildland and urban areas. As more homes are built in the woods and fields of Minnesota, the current firefighting resources are less able to protect everyone's property while trying to control wildfires. Homes close to eve...
The Carlton Soil and Water Conservation District and the Minnesota Agricultural Water Quality Certification Program, in partnership with Northland Farm Supply, Widdes Feed & Farm Supply, and Federated Co-ops of Moose Lake, are all gearing up for the Cover Crop Field Days April 26-28. Field days highlight how farmers from across the county are incorporating cover crops into their farming practices. Cover crops have been used by farmers in Minnesota for decades and provide benefits to the farmer and the land they are planted on. The tour...
Carlton County master gardeners are hosting two family garden-party-style classes in the next month. They are free and open to everyone, but space is limited, so registration is required. The first session is 10-11:30 a.m. April 28. The second is at the same time on May 12. Both will take place at the Carlton County Government Services Building at 1307 Cloquet Ave. in Cloquet at the outside green space area. Activities will move inside in case of bad weather. The first party on April 28 will feature planting seeds in a greenhouse kit that is...
Cars Towing owner Wes Vork said he considers his tow truck drivers first responders, and that was never more true than a call that Vork responded to 18 months ago. Vork was honored Friday with a national award - second place in Ford's Real Heroes of the Road giveaway - for the work he did that day. The call came the morning of Sept. 16, 2020, from a rural area outside of Tamarack. Passersby had stopped and called AAA dispatch on behalf of an elderly male driver, who said he had been with the...
The State Climatology Office is looking for volunteer rainfall monitors for the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network. The network includes more than 20,000 volunteers nationwide who measure precipitation in their backyards using standard 4-inch diameter rain gauges and submit reports online. Climatologist Pete Boulay said the data from backyard rain gauges are helpful and important in many ways. “These volunteers help to verify high rain totals after big events, monitor drought and flooding, make our precipitation maps more a...
The FBI confirmed this week that the March 17 bomb threats to Esko High School - and numerous other schools across the country as reported in the Pine Knot last week - came from overseas. Last week the Pine Knot reported that a Wisconsin sheriff's office had speculated that the calls were from another country. Lt. Dan Danielson said the Carlton County Sheriff's Office reached out to the FBI for help tracking the Esko call. Danielson said the FBI determined the call appeared to originate from Afr...
After 32 years, Byron and Caroline Johnson are ready to retire from the restaurant business. The Brickyard Restaurant in Wrenshall has been up for sale for about a month. “It’s been 32 years, I’m ready to retire,” Byron Johnson said. He said he hopes the business will go to another couple and the family-friendly, community meeting spot the couple maintained remains. The building and business, which is listed for $390,000, was built in 1990 by the community through fundraising and shared labor. Area residents wanted a place to get a cup of coffe...
State Rep. Jen Schultz of Duluth announced this week her candidacy to challenge U.S. Rep. Pete Stauber in the Eighth Congressional District. The Democrat announced earlier this month she wasn’t seeking a fifth term in the state House representing eastern Duluth. She said she had “very mixed feelings” leaving the legislature and hinted that her public service wasn’t over. Hermantown’s Stauber, the Republican incumbent, is seeking a third term. Theresa Lastovich, a Democrat from the Iron Range, entered the race in December but dropped out in Fe...
Arrowhead Library System now offers free access to the popular ChiltonLibrary online resource for patrons residing in Carlton, St. Louis and five other counties. ChiltonLibrary provides free 24/7 online access to repair, maintenance and service information on the most popular cars, trucks, vans and SUVs on the road today as well as many new vehicles. This continually updated resource provides step-by-step repair procedures, troubleshooting guides and diagnostic trouble codes, photos, illustrations, diagrams, and multimedia (video and...
When Jessica Lee's boyfriend of 11 years died unexpectedly in 2014, she felt absolutely lost and alone. She had never experienced such a traumatic loss, and the person she loved the most could no longer help her laugh about life and get through the pain. She called it "astronomical" grief. "When Jimmy died, I thought my life died with him," Lee said. "It was so unexpected, like a light switch going off." Then she discovered the grief support group at Community Memorial Hospital in Cloquet. Lee...
For the fourth year in a row, the Advanced Wound Clinic at Community Memorial Hospital in Cloquet has been awarded the Center of Distinction award by Healogics, the nation's largest provider of advanced wound care services. The Advanced Wound Clinic achieved this award for outstanding clinical outcomes for 12 consecutive months. Those outcomes include having a patient satisfaction rate higher than 92 percent and a minimum wound healing rate of at least 92 percent. There were 555 Centers eligible for the Center of Distinction award and 278 achie...
Carlton County officials didn't waste any time with the latest round of financing for the new justice center. The call for a sale of $27.5 million in bonds took only 12 days from presentation to final approval at Monday's county board meeting. PFM, the company the county uses to organize bond sales, had earlier advised that borrowing money would cost more soon due to pressure from the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates to dampen higher inflation rates and uncertainty about how the U.S....
Carlton County is looking for the approval of Thomson Township organizations to move forward with planning the proposed County State Aid Highway 61 reconstruction and trail project, but the community organizations are not ready to give their stamp of approval. Carlton County engineer JinYeene Neumann requested a letter of support from the Thomson Township board at their meeting March 17, to be used as part of a grant application process for the project. Due to relatively low traffic on the roadway, approximately 2,400 vehicles a day, and...
Judge Eric Hylden told Roxanne Peterson that her words spoke to him. He said the pain and agony she described in a Duluth courtroom Tuesday is painfully familiar. He lost a teenage son in 2009. Peterson had just given a victim impact statement regarding the 2020 death of her 16-year-old grandson, Cloquet resident Joe Peterson. A table away was the teenager who shot “Little Joe,” his cousin, Joseph Fohrenkam. Judge Hylden made it official at Fohrenkam’s sentencing in St. Louis County District Court: He will serve 7 years in prison for shoot...
One of the mothers involved in a very public Cloquet child custody case was charged with three counts of malicious punishment of a child last week. Carlton County attorney Lauri Ketola announced Thursday that Nicole Ammesmaki would be charged. Her sister, Dawn Ammesmaki, won’t be charged because the accusation of child abuse against her involve reported instances from three years ago, beyond the statute of limitations. Ketola also announced that she is also charging a teacher at the Fond du Lac Head Start, Kayla Hansen, for failing to report p...
Spring brings many things: Gordy’s opening, mud, birds, more snow … and two mailings from the county assessor’s office. Property tax statements for 2022 are arriving in mailboxes — wrapped in official-looking county envelopes — and so are property valuations for 2023, bright yellow letters that are hard to miss. County assessor Kyle Holmes said it’s the property valuation, or assessed value, that may seem startling to homeowners and others because the estimated market value of almost all residential and commercial properties is going up by at l...
Nearly 400 wastewater treatment plants, industrial facilities, airports and landfills across Minnesota will begin monitoring for PFAS this year, state regulators said on Tuesday. They say the data collected will provide vital clues about how and where the ubiquitous compounds known as “forever chemicals” are getting into Minnesota’s air, water and soil. PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a large class of human-made chemicals known for their durability. They’re found in a wide variety of industrial processes and commerc...
