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Super One store in Pike Lake Friday, Jan. 29 ended with the suspect fleeing the car after it went off the road near the Saginaw Union Station bar at the intersection of Highways 2 and 194, according to information from the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office. Scott Michael Jordan, 34, of Duluth was armed when he carjacked the vehicle and its occupants, a woman and her 16-year-old son. When the car crashed in the Union Station parking lot, the carjacker fled on foot and the victims were able to call for help. St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office dep...
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College and the Northeast Minnesota Beekeepers Association are hosting a virtual symposium called “Beekeeping and More!” Saturday, Feb. 13, for anyone interested in learning about beekeeping as a hobby or as a commercial enterprise. The virtual symposium will open at 8:45 a.m. and classes run 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. via Zoom. Registration is $10. Pre-registration is required, available online at https://bit.ly/3ahMKB6. Zoom links to the day’s presentations will be emailed to registered participants. Other sessi...
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is asking for online public comment through Feb. 15 on its outdoor recreation task force recommendations for enhancing the state's outdoor recreation opportunities. The initiative is quite broad and includes many state-owned and operated areas in Carlton County. These include Jay Cooke and Moose Lake state parks, Fond du Lac State Forest, and the Soo Line north and south trails, among others. The DNR's State Forest Trail and Management Revisions Proj...
Local law enforcement and firefighters are keeping busy as protesters continue to disrupt and potentially delay construction of the Enbridge Line 3 replacement pipeline through the Fond du Lac reservation and Carlton County. Late Monday afternoon, three water protectors were arrested. Two of the protestors — Nicholas Tippins and Joseph Morales — were arrested while blocking the entrance to the site, while the third, Jeff Nichols-Haining, climbed onto a section of the pipeline dangling over a trench. According to a press release from the Wat...
Cloquet city councilors approved a plan Tuesday to continue the city's transition toward being compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, particularly where sidewalks, pedestrian ramps and traffic signals are concerned. The 63-page ADA Transition Plan is federally mandated and must be developed in order to qualify for certain funding streams. Were every suggestion to be implemented, the work would cost the city an estimated $1.2 million. Of that, reconstructed 550 pedestrian ramps would...
For those who disparage or simply don’t understand the younger generation, maybe this will help. Please enjoy the essays on this page and next shared by Cloquet High School seniors in Jason Richardson’s college prep English class last semester. The prompt was NPR’s “This I Believe,” Richardson said, adding that some students “put their hearts into this.” We thank them for sharing. — Pine Knot News staff ******** Beating your brain By Logan Dushkin I believe in mental toughness. In sports, look at the greatest — Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant in...
UMD The University of Minnesota Duluth announced its dean’s list for last fall. Students on the list have achieved a grade point average of 3.5 or higher. Many students from Cloquet made the list: Ethan Bergman, senior, English and history; Jordan Bolos, senior, chemical engineering; Tyler Budris, senior, computer science; Tyler Conway, junior, undeclared; Jean-Luc Genereau, senior, electrical engineering; Ava Grondahl, sophomore, biochemistry; Nathan Hammond, senior, chemical engineering; Julia Hill, junior, education; Callie Holm, senior, m...
For me and my neighbors, it feels far too early to think of the promise of spring. But I have appreciated the return of evening light as I walk to the mailbox at 5 p.m. While most phenological changes are happening "in the belly" of the earth, local farmers are on the verge of starting seeds for the coming season and many of our area's food share farms are now open for member sign-ups. The Dalens at Northern Harvest Farms (northernharvestfarm.com) and Catherine Conover from Stone's Throw Farm...
Here is a look at the 33 awards the Pine Knot News received last week from the Minnesota Newspaper Association. The annual contest run by MNA pits papers of comparable size against each other. Awards honoring overall work by a newspaper come from a look at issues chosen at random under contest rules. Entries by individuals are chosen by newspaper staff from a year’s worth of work. There are about 285 newspapers in the state that are part of the association. About 260 of those papers are w...
Woodsmoke curled through the trees on a quiet winter afternoon at Camp Miigizi, just off Magney Drive on the Fond du Lac Reservation. An event called "Frybread Friday'' was scheduled here for Jan. 22, but it appeared no one was around the encampment of lightweight tents scattered randomly around a low-burning fire. A single, larger canvas tent stood out as a possible hub of activity, but all was silent inside. Farther on, a half-dozen women and men were found quietly assembling a wooden hut....
First-grade teacher Ann Doesken was expecting Tuesday to feel like the first day of school in the fall. After all, it was the first day of in-person learning since schools went to distance learning in November when the Covid-19 rates started going through the roof. But it wasn't. It was better. "Everyone just jumped right in and didn't miss a beat," said the overjoyed teacher, adding that there was little of that first-day nervousness for kids. "It felt amazing to be with students in person. My...
Heather Wright, vice chair of the Carlton County fair board, has assured Carlton County commissioners that the fair board is committed to updating the 4-H building on the grounds and can make it available for the Minnesota Extension Office. “The 4-H building is already used for 4-H and Extension work in the summer,” Wright said during the board meeting Monday. “It is a large building and centered in the rural area of the county.” Wright said there are many buildings in the fairground complex that could be used more effectively for Extensi...
Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie S. Gildea issued a statewide order effective Feb. 1 that limits in-person activity in courthouses for an additional 45 days and requires remote hearings to the extent possible for all case types. No new criminal or civil jury trials will begin before March 15. Exceptions may be granted for criminal jury trials that meet three criteria: the defendant has requested a speedy trial, the defendant is in custody, and the case involves a felony or nonfelony person crime....
The Barnum girls basketball coach was arrested Tuesday, Jan. 19, for allegedly sexually assaulting one of his players. Andrew John Palmer, 33, of Moose Lake was charged with three counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct in Carlton County Sixth District Court Thursday; each count is related to a different alleged sexual encounter. When the Pine Knot News wrote of Palmer’s arrest in last week’s newspaper, he had yet to be formally charged. There was little information available, other than the fact that he had been arrested with cha...
It's not quite business as usual at the Black Bear Casino Resort, but general manager Dan LaPrairie said staff are working hard to stay open and keep people healthy during the pandemic. So far, so good, LaPrairie said. "We are doing a balancing act here, compared to what we normally do," LaPrairie told the Pine Knot News last week. "We normally have 2,000-seat concerts, and we do drawings and we try to fill this place with 6,000 people. So it's been a balancing act with what we do as far as...
A hub in the Mahtowa community serving a large part of western Carlton County, TJ's Country Corner has the feel of the neighborhood grocery once common in American locales. But with the death of founding owner Tom Bislow two years ago, the patrons of the store and the Mahtowa neighborhood braced themselves for what the future would hold. Bislow's commitment to the local area, making the store a community hub, could change with new owners. In this case, change brought more good. And during the...
The motto of the Cloquet Area Fire District when it concerns the state legislature could be phrased this way: "If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try again." For at least the fifth time since the district was formed by legislative action in 2009, the fire district is making a request of the state legislature. This time it's for a new building as it has outgrown its current home. In the past, requests have ranged from fixing mistakes made by the legislature when it formed the fire...
Over the past several years, customers walking into the Cloquet or Carlton post offices have been greeted by a familiar face backed up with a helpful, can-do attitude. The guy who seems to be at the front window of every local post office is Philip Birkhofer, who now runs a one-man operation in Carlton. Birkhofer started his career in Cloquet seven years ago, then shifted to Carlton before going back to Cloquet for about five years. He was the head clerk there, "kind of running the front...
A Cloquet man was charged with first- and second-degree criminal sexual conduct stemming from an arrest warrant issued in November, after a young woman reported he allegedly assaulted her last spring, when both he and the victim were living with her guardian. Timothy Scott Young Jr., 38, had his first hearing in Sixth District Carlton County Court on Jan. 13. He is charged with criminal sexual conduct, first degree, penetration with a victim under the age of 16, and second-degree criminal sexual conduct, significant relationship with a victim...
With assistance from several law enforcement agencies, Cloquet police department detectives seized 2.2 pounds of cocaine with a street value of nearly $30,000 last week. Misty Anne Baum, 40, of Duluth, was charged with first degree possession of drugs for the cocaine possession, along with fifth- degree drug possession and introducing contraband into jail. According to the criminal complaint, the Drug Enforcement Agency contacted Cloquet detectives on Jan. 12, after local agents located a package containing nearly 1 kilogram of cocaine...
Students went back to the Barnum elementary and high schools Tuesday, Jan. 19. “It was great to hear their voices in the halls again,” said Barnum superintendent Mike McNulty in a telephone interview later that day. “I hope that lasts a long time.” The elementary students have returned to school five days a week, while the high school students attend school four days a week. They participate in distance learning on Wednesdays, explained McNulty. “Wednesday is a day for the teachers to do preparation work,” said McNulty. “We don’t have th...
Esko elementary students returned to school in-person on Tuesday and it was fabulous, Esko superintendent Aaron Fischer told Esko School Board members during their meeting Tuesday. “Quite honestly, I walked around and I couldn’t believe all the smiles from the teachers and staff and the kids,” he said. “It felt really good to be here today; there was just a different vibe in the air.” Pre-K students through sixth grade returned to Winterquist Elementary this week, while students in grades 7-12 continued with distance learning for one more week...
The Minnesota Department of Revenue will open the state Individual Income Tax filing season on Feb. 12. The date matches the opening day for the Internal Revenue Service. The filing deadline to submit 2020 Minnesota income tax returns is April 15, the same deadline for 2020 federal income tax returns. Tax software providers and tax professionals may be accepting and preparing tax returns before Feb. 12 and will submit those returns when the IRS and state systems open in February. “Filing electronically and choosing direct deposit for your r...
Water protector Nia Zekan climbed into a pipe trench along the Line 3 pipeline easement on the Fond du Lac reservation Monday morning, shutting down work for approximately four hours. Zekan halted construction at this Enbridge worksite while "dozens more people stood around in support of Nia and resistance to Line 3," according to a press release from the Line 3 Media Collective. "I want to protect this beautiful land and all its wisdom. I want to stand with the people who have been learning...
What seemed like a routine retail tobacco license suspension turned into lengthy discussion during Tuesday's Cloquet City Council meeting, but the end result was the same. Lakeshore Tobacco Vapor was fined $200 and its retail tobacco license suspended for 10 days, after the local smoke shop sold a tobacco product to a minor - who had been engaged by police for its twice-a-year compliance checks - for the second time in two years. The fine and suspension are detailed in the city code, but the...
