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Indigenous artists are invited to submit proposals for a community mural that would highlight “community, Ojibwe artwork, language (Ojibwe and English), and walking and bicycling” to be located in the bandshell at Cloquet’s Pinehurst Park, according to a request for proposals issued by Carlton County Health and Human Services. The mural and signage with artwork and both English and Ojibwe language will be paid for through a $16,200 Safe Routes to School Boost grant. The preferred applicant must be an enrolled tribal member or a desce...
Thanks to the end of an almost two-year drought, water levels were high enough this year for Paddlemania to again feature the Fin Falls race course, which spans some of the best rapids on the lower St. Louis River through Jay Cooke State Park. “This race highlights some of the more gnarly rapids you have to navigate, including some Class 4 rapids,” race director Cliff Langley told the Pine Knot last week, explaining the water had been too low the past two years for that race course. Spe...
It's peak community festival season right now, with three Carlton County communities throwing hometown celebrations over the next nine days. On Saturday, Brickyard Days will bring the small town of Wrenshall together for a parade and fun in the park and at Bricks Pub and Grub. Esko Fun Days runs Tuesday through Saturday next week, and Ma and Pa Kettle Days returns next weekend in Kettle River. While all three events include food and community gatherings, Kettle River is the only community to...
A Carlton County man is dead after an crash on Highway 210 at approximately 9:05 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 1. According to the State Patrol incident report. The 69-year-old male from Sawyer was traveling eastbound on Highway 210 near the cross street of County Road 5 in a Ford Escape. The vehicle crossed into the westbound lane and entered the north ditch hitting an embankment. The airbag deployed but the man — who will be identified Friday — apparently died at the scene. Road conditions were wet at the time. Fond du Lac police, Carlton County She...
National Night Out is Tuesday, Aug. 6. Across the nation, neighborhoods and communities will host block parties, festivals, cookouts and various other community events with an emphasis on getting to know neighbors and local law enforcement. Every group has its own way of celebrating, large and small. In Cloquet, close to a thousand people will converge on Veterans Park for food and fun 5-8 p.m. Tuesday. At the same time, residents in the Sunnyside-Erickson Acres neighborhood will gather from...
A passenger on a motorcycle sustained serious injuries in a crash Monday on the Minnesota Highway 33 roundabout in Cloquet. According to the Minnesota State Patrol crash site, a Harley-Davidson was entering the roundabout from southbound Highway 33 to southbound Interstate 35 when the driver lost control due to an oily substance on the roadway at roughly 4:21 p.m. Monday, July 29. The driver, 48-year-old Jeffrey Baker of Virginia, Minnesota, had non-life threatening injuries that did not require further care. His passenger, 39-year-old Ashley...
Hoping to start a friendly game of cards with friendly seniors two Thursdays a month starting in September. Time and place to be determined. Interested? Call Joan at 218-348-8480....
The Minnesota Department of Transportation has closed CSAH 61 under the Interstate 35 bridge until Aug. 9. MnDOT will re-open once bridge painting has been completed. The DNR trail under the bridge will remain open. Traffic will be detoured on County Road 61 to County Road 4 to County Road 5....
The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has joined a lawsuit with other tribal nations saying social media companies have added to the mental health crisis engulfing Native American teenagers. It is the first such effort by a tribe in Minnesota. The law firm of Robins Kaplan in Los Angeles is representing the Band and four other tribes from the Dakotas and Wisconsin that have filed similar suits earlier this year against the four major social media companies: Alphabet, ByteDance, Meta and Snap, which run the social media sites...
The Senior LinkAge Line will offer a class on health care fraud and abuse prevention on Wednesday, Aug. 14. Attendees may choose the 10-11:30 a.m. or 2-3:30 p.m. session. Attendees will learn how to detect and report potential errors, fraud, and abuse; review potential fraud and scams targeting older adults, learn how to read their Medicare paperwork, learn how to protect their Medicare beneficiary number, and how to protect, detect and report Medicare scams and fraud. The class is offered online using the Microsoft Teams meeting platform....
Donna Ennis of Cloquet was appointed to the Mentally Ill and Dangerous Civil Commitment task force as a tribal representative, according to a news release from Gov. Tim Walz’s office. Her term will last one year, starting Aug. 1. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor are seeking qualified and diverse individuals who are passionate about using their knowledge, skills, and lived experiences to serve the state of Minnesota. Find a list of boards and commissions with open positions at commissionsandappointments.sos.state.mn.us/Po...
The Minnesota Department of Transportation asks the public to weigh in on the future of passenger rail. This request comes as part of the ongoing update to the Minnesota State Rail Plan. The Minnesota State Rail Plan addresses a variety of topics important to the future of rail including safety, economic development and possible expansion of passenger rail. With more than 4,000 miles of freight and passenger rail lines in the state, the MSRP provides an overall vision for future development of the rail system and identifies priority rail...
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has scheduled two public auctions of confiscated fishing, hunting, and trapping equipment. The auctions, which will be held online Aug. 26 and Oct. 7, include equipment that was confiscated following serious game and fish violations. A list of equipment to be auctioned will be available about a month before each auction at hillerauction.com. Online bidding for the auctions begins Aug. 23 (first auction) and Oct. 4 (second auction). Onsite inspection is available. All equipment will be sold as-is....
The U.S. Department of the Interior this week announced next steps on the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, launched in June 2021 by Secretary Deb Haaland as the first-ever comprehensive effort by the federal government to recognize the troubled legacy of past federal Indian boarding school policies with the goal of addressing their intergenerational impact and shedding light on past and present trauma in Indigenous communities. The final volume of the investigative report came with...
There were many happy returns for Ann Heikkila, who celebrated her 90th birthday on July 24. She also celebrated on July 28 at church, with a special birthday cake and fancy place setting in her honor, with several area folks there. She got calls from Finland, Alaska, New York, Oregon, Colonial Williamsburg, Florida, Colorado, Cloquet, Duluth, Thunder Bay and Wisconsin. There were lots of cards. Special friends dropped off a small cake, and she had wine with dinner at Bann’s on Lake M...
A committee is working to bring pickleball to the tennis courts at South Terrace Elementary School. With the courts in disrepair for many years, Ed Kavanaugh estimated it will take close to $50,000 to renovate the space for four pickleball courts. Kavanaugh said they have a contractor willing to do the project, which will require digging up the existing asphalt, putting in new, then hiring someone to do the final surfacing. The courts could be striped for tennis and pickleball, like they are at...
Known for its hydroelectric power generation and appeal to kayakers, the Thomson Reservoir is soon to be the site of a $36 million construction project. Contractors are set to converge in August on the parking lot alongside Minnesota Highway 210 outside the Thomson Dam. They’ll be there through next summer, working to apply a layer of carbon pellets that will cover up and bind to contaminated sediments at the bottom of what is the St. Louis River. The process will prevent contaminants from t...
Carlton teen Abrianna Schmidt will be the grand marshal of this year's Carlton Daze parade on July 28. Schmidt won the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's Journey of a Song contest earlier this year, with a song inspired by growing up in Carlton. Schmidt's song, "Small Town Girl," won her an all-expenses-paid trip to Nashville, and participation in the Hall of Fame's weeklong songwriting camp in June, working with music producers and other artists. The 18-year-old found out she was grand...
After hearing an annual report from the district's auditors on July 17, which highlighted the issue of the district writing off over half of its ambulance fee revenue, the Cloquet Area Fire District board approved a preliminary budget for 2025 which includes a 30-percent increase in the ambulance levy. The double-digit tax hike would be the largest since 2023, when the levy increased by 100 percent. For 2024, the ambulance levy increased by 2.83 percent. The reason for such a sharp increase in...
The Fond du Lac Police Department will hold a community input session at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 13 to discuss the proposed purchase and implementation of officer body-worn cameras. The meeting is open to all residents within reservation boundaries. According to a news release, footage captured by FDLPD cameras would serve various purposes within the department, including investigative, evidentiary, training, and accountability uses. Additionally, footage may be subject to release under specific legal circumstances, such as public records...
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College hired two new deans this summer: Dean of Nursing and Health Sciences Jessica Huber and Dean of Education Sara Montgomery. Huber was promoted from her role as nursing student mentor and program coordinator at FDLTCC, and worked at the College of St. Scholastica before that as an assistant professor, then as director/department chair of undergraduate nursing. Montgomery was the college’s elementary education program coordinator and faculty. She was an instrumental team member in bringing the college’s new...
Wrenshall will celebrate Brickyard Days (aka Brickyard Day) on Saturday, Aug. 3, with a range of family-friendly activities and even a nod to the Olympics. The day kicks off with a pancake breakfast at the town hall 7-10 a.m., followed by the parade at 11 a.m. Activities in the park after the parade include kids’ games, face painting, crazy hair, bingo and vendors, and 3-point shooting at 1 p.m. and “crazy Olympic partner” games at 2 p.m. Sign up for the shooting and Olympic games at the park....
The annual free Journey Biker Blessing — where motorcyclists can have their rides blessed — starts with registration at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3 at Journey Christian Church, 1400 Washington Ave., Cloquet. There will be a ride at 3 p.m. and the blessing is at 5 p.m. Outdoor services and prizes start at 6 p.m....
Come Thursday, the city of Moose Lake will have officially adopted the Carlton County Sheriff’s Office as its law enforcement provider. Both the county board and Moose Lake city council approved a services agreement this week. The contract begins Aug. 1 and runs through the end of 2026. It stipulates the county will supply four deputies and a part-time clerical administrator to the city located on the county’s southern border with Pine County. They’ll be based out of the city’s former police headquarters in the city’s emergency response...
Sixth District Carlton County Judge Amy Lukasavitz commended 22-year-old Ricky Onefeather Tobolaski for taking responsibility for his actions — a rare occurrence in these types of cases, she said — and then sentenced him to four years and nine months in prison. Under the terms of a plea agreement, the Mahtowa man pleaded guilty to third-degree criminal sexual conductbafter originally being charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct. Tobolaski also pleaded guilty to a charge of possession of pornography. A first-degree criminal sex...
