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A hearing on a motion to censure the chairperson of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is set for Monday, based on allegations he knowingly violated a reservation ordinance that prohibits weapons in the tribal business center. Fond du Lac secretary/treasurer Ferdinand Martineau made the motion to censure Fond du Lac Reservation Business Committee chair Kevin Dupuis Sr. at the Jan. 28 meeting of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribal Executive Committee meeting. The Tribal Executive Committee comprises the chairperson and secretary/treasurer...
The three-day throng of tech-inclined high school students called the Duluth Regionals in robotics didn't disappoint last weekend as 111 teams from Minnesota and neighboring states took over the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center. There were four Carlton County teams in the competition, from Cloquet, Esko, Barnum and Moose Lake. Esko came away with the biggest honors: a run in the playoffs, a top award for innovation in controlling its robot, and a sure place in the state tournament....
The Cloquet Police Department is investigating the “suspicious” death of Amanda Cadotte, a 33-year-old woman, within Cloquet city limits on the Fond du Lac Reservation. According to a news release, Cloquet and Fond du Lac police departments, along with the Cloquet Area Fire District, responded to Trettel Lane in Cloquet on a medical call at approximately 7:24 a.m. Thursday, March 3. Cadotte was unresponsive and pronounced deceased at the scene. It is an open and active investigation, as the death is being considered suspicious, police said, whi...
Owners and staff at Gordy’s Hi-Hat in Cloquet, a seasonal food hotspot for 62 years, were busy last weekend removing snow from the restaurant grounds. That’s because they plan on welcoming people interested in working there 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 12. Gordy’s announced online and with its sign off Minnesota Highway 33 north of the St. Louis River the past week that opening day will be March 23. It will be the first year of operation without founder Gordy Lundquist, who died last July....
Carlton County has announced that $10,000 of the remaining pandemic relief funding will be disbursed as grants aimed at bringing county communities back together. Groups that plan to host free community events in Carlton County in 2022 should consider applying for grants of up to $1,000, based on event details, geographic disbursement, impact, and countywide demand for funding. Applications are available beginning Monday, March 14 and are due by 4 p.m. April 15. Over the past two years, many fun, community-building, educational and cultural eve...
The Carlton County Board of Commissioners continued to advance the combined justice center project, voting on the first construction contract and finalizing the administrative contracts during their meeting Tuesday morning. The board awarded Taracon Precast of Hawley, Minnesota a $5,230,705 bid to furnish the needed precast concrete for construction of the new justice center complex. The bid came in $169,295 below engineering estimates. “I will make the motion to proceed,” announced longtime commissioner Dick Brenner, “now that we have a plan....
A Superior man is facing charges for possession of more than 72 grams of methamphetamine after a traffic stop earlier this month. Antonio Carlos Boyd, 42, was charged March 3 with first-degree felony drug possession and obstructing the legal process, a misdemeanor, in Sixth District Carlton County Court. According to the criminal complaint, officers from three agencies — the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Carlton County Sheriff’s Office and Cloquet Police Department — initiated a traffic stop on a motor vehicle on Interstate 35 in...
Carlton County Zoning and Environmental Services administrator Heather Cunningham gave her annual report to the county board Tuesday, saying it was a year of change with three new staff in the department. She thought it was good to have a fresh view of some of the programs they run. Sixty new homes were built in the county and there was an increase in construction activity. At the transfer station, recycling used mattresses is going to cost more. Clean mattresses will be processed now for $20 and wet mattresses will be taken for $24, with...
The Minnesota Judicial Branch announced March 4 that it was lifting the statewide order requiring face coverings in court facilities. It went into effect on Monday. The order included a word of caution about Covid-19 rates in certain areas of the state and optional mask use to keep people safe. The order issued by chief justice Lorie S. Gildea lifts the requirement of face coverings for every person entering a court facility. The chief judge in each district is authorized to require face coverings in court facilities in areas where Covid-19...
The Thomson Township Board of Supervisors heard annual reports from community leaders and discussed taxes at the annual township meeting Tuesday, March 8. The board approved the proposed 2023 tax levy for the township, $1,738,876, which reflects a 3-percent increase from the previous levy for 2022. There was no discussion regarding the 2023 levy, but resident Jim Nynas questioned the board about the township's relationship with the Cloquet Area Fire District and wondered if there had been any...
Barnum High School Quarter 2 A Honor Roll 7th Grade Tessa Bednarek Eli Berger Marlene Budge Emma Dahl Ruth Dinger Connor Ferrin Lillian Genereau Allison Gresczyk Jillian Grott Piper Johnson Halle Kauppila Arie Koecher Taylor Lake Lucy Maher Reuben Olson-Williams Nora Piri Miah Sandberg Lauren Soukkala Jlind White-Wyman 8th Grade Kaitlyn Bartz Alizondra Collelo Cadence Fanning Lucy Franek Sophia Frank Grace Grover Michael Hoover Brock Hurst Kyson Landwehr Riley McNamara Evan Mundell MaKenna Nordstrom Morghan Nynas Ava Nyquist Iris Polecheck...
Carlton High School Quarter 2 A Honor Roll 12th Grade Nicholas DeVriendt-LeDoux Kash Gibson Alaina Kiehl Carly Parker Joseph Solomon Cole Thompson 11th Grade Eliza DeCaigny Daniel Schiller Aaron Weitzel 10th Grade Luukas Korpela Megan Matarelli Sam Ojibway 9th Grade Gavin Gibson Zander Hall Lauryn Hilton Jackson Korpela, Amber Lawry Julia Peterson Kayla Radtke Amy Schwoch Skyler Vernon 8th Grade Alex Gillette Carley Lawry Alexander Midge Sophia Schmidt Nadia Tessier 7th Grade Dani Carlson Ava Jenne Landon Jenne Brielle Simula Evelyn Socha...
Wrenshall School Quarter 2 A Honor Roll Olivia Aldridge Natylee Anderson Bryce Bartczak Eli Beetcher Corvus Eckdahl Sage Fernquist Mason Goetz Addison Hulgan Taylor Hulgan Tyler Iverson Eathen Johnson Jenna Johnson Kaylie Lammi Joel Lembke Tyler Mills Alex Murray Hannah Niemela Andrew Olesen Audranna Padilla Isaias Padilla Camden Peterson Abbie Resberg Owen Resberg Isabel Riley Jack Riley Dustin Roepke Molly Sheda Janae Sjodin Jeshua Sjodin Magdalene Sowada Kaya Stark Birk Stensaas Alexis Swanson Eli Twedt B Honor Roll Joshua Anderson Gavin...
Virginia is lying on her back in a hospital gown, about to have her second baby. "She's 39 weeks pregnant," explains Melissa Seibert, inpatient services director at Cloquet's Community Memorial Hospital. "And she couldn't make it to Duluth hospital because she thinks she's gonna have her baby sooner." Virginia doesn't have anything to add to the conversation - because she isn't a person. She's a life-like birth simulator that can replicate a wide range of birth scenarios from a cesarean section...
For the first time in 10 years, Esko’s Mike Sundin will not be a District 11A candidate for the Minnesota House of Representatives. Now in his fifth term in the district — which includes all of Carlton County and smaller parts of St. Louis and Pine counties — Sundin said it was health issues and a desire to spend more time with family that prompted his decision. “After three major surgeries in the past seven years, I’ve decided to hang up the legislative career … for now,” he said. “I dear...
Science fair students and judges logged onto their computers and cellphones last weekend as they - once again - attended the Northeast Minnesota Regional and American Indian Science and Engineering Fair virtually. In a pre-pandemic year, buses and vans would have traveled to the University of Minnesota Duluth from schools as far south as Hinckley-Finlayson and all over the Northland for the regional science fair. Students would set up large display boards in large rooms, ready with an "elevator...
When the 2020 Census showed an increase of 444 residents in Cloquet, city officials took a look at their own version of redistricting and decided to keep things the way they were. City administrator Tim Peterson explained to the council members during Tuesday’s meeting that unlike U.S. House District 8 — which is expanding west to include the White Earth and Red Lake nations — Cloquet saw only small changes to the population numbers in the city’s five council wards. Current population numbers and percentage of average population are listed...
Prosecutors have charged a man with Cloquet connections with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Minneapolis North student-athlete Deshaun Hill Jr. The 15-year-old died Feb. 10 after being shot in the head the previous day along a Minneapolis street. Hennepin County prosecutors allege 29-year-old Cody Logan Fohrenkam fired the shot that killed Hill after the two may have bumped into each other on a sidewalk. Over the course of the investigation, numerous witnesses and a surveillance video from the area helped investigators identify Fo...
The Minit Mart convenience stores in Carlton County were expected to come under new ownership by the end of the month. There are seven Minit Mart stores in the county that will fall under KornerStores Inc. of Duluth, Caywood Country Store in Saginaw or Edwards Oil Company Inc., a family-run business in Virginia, Minnesota. Most of the current Minit Mart stores were, until 2015, under the ownership of Cloquet-based Best Oil Co. It sold 18 Little Store convenience stores to TravelCenters of...
After a jury found Dennis Michael St.John Jr. of Scanlon guilty of kidnapping, rape and domestic abuse in January, his expected sentence was handed down this week: Life in prison without the possibility of release. Two of St. John’s convictions were used in guiding the sentence Monday in Carlton County Sixth District Court. He received just more than eight years on a felony kidnapping charge. His felony criminal sexual conduct conviction sparked state statute that guides sentencing depending on the existence of “heinous” elements to the crime...
Due to what’s been called an “extreme increase” in property values since 2020, Carlton County property owners can expect the estimated market value of their property to increase substantially this year, according to the Carlton County assessor’s office. Calling it the “craziest real estate market” he’d ever seen, assessor Kyle Holmes told the Carlton County board of commissioners at their regular meeting Monday that they will probably be getting calls after property owners receive their 2022 Proposed Valuation and Classification notices for p...
Residents have until 8 a.m. Monday, March 7, to comment on plans for remediation of contaminated groundwater in Esko, adjacent to the Esko Post Office. A notice regarding the comment period appeared on page 5 of the Feb. 4 Pine Knot News. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency began site investigation in 1994, when the post office well was sampled as part of a petroleum release investigation and benzene was detected in the well. Remedial activities lowered the benzene levels so the MPCA closed that case in 2008. In 1996, tetrachloroethene (PCE)...
Between 60 and 70 brave anglers attended this year's Kingdom Builders Ministries annual fishing derby. This was the sixth annual ice fishing contest, and there were plenty of fish and prizes to go around. The largest northern caught weighed in at 4.03 pounds. The largest bass was 2.38 lbs. The largest perch was 13 ounces, and the largest sunfish was 3 ounces. Gifts included a portable icehouse, two augers, two Vexilars, an underwater camera and more. Other gifts were given out with each fish...
The Cloquet Police Department issued a news release Monday that they are investigating the "suspicious" death of an unidentified woman last week on the Fond du Lac Reservation and within Cloquet city limits. According to the news release: At approximately 7:24 a.m., Thursday, March 3, the 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. Responding officers found an unresponsive adult female who was pronounced deceased at the scene. This is an open...
In August, Carlton County will have been without an animal shelter for four years. That's not OK, says a new group of concerned citizens. Now called Carlton County Animal Rescue, the group has been meeting since October. Their ultimate objective is to build and manage a shelter to house lost or abandoned cats and dogs in Carlton County. It's been a grassroots movement from the beginning, when Bekki Babineau recognized that an animal rescue group was needed and placed a message on the Cloquet...
