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The Fond du Lac Band is leveraging funding from the Volkswagen emissions settlement to build electric vehicle charging stations and replace diesel vehicles with cleaner technologies. A $2.8 billion Mitigation Trust Agreement was created from the $14.7 billion series of settlements Volkswagen entered into after the Environmental Protection Agency's allegations of Clean Air Act violations six years ago. The trust was set up to offset excess emissions caused by Volkswagen's vehicles, some of which...
Kids up to age 18 can pick up free summer lunches again at Cloquet High School, Door 23, or Washington Elementary School, Door 3, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. July 12 through Aug. 20. The program is closed July 5-9. No registration is required and there are no forms to fill out. Just show up and eat. To find other sites, visit www.hungerimpactpartners.org and download its mobile app....
The Minnesota Judicial Branch announced that face coverings will no longer be required in court facilities effective July 6, 2021. “As the pandemic’s impact on Minnesota continues to recede, so too will some of the health and safety protocols that were in place in our district and appellate courts,” said Chief Justice Lorie S. Gildea. Judges, employees, and courthouse visitors will still be allowed to wear face coverings in court facilities if they choose to do so, although judges may direct people to remove face coverings as necessary to co...
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, State Patrol, county sheriff’s offices, and other public safety agencies will increase patrols for intoxicated boaters through the holiday weekend as part of Operation Dry Water, a national campaign aimed at deterring boating under the influence of drugs and alcohol....
Several building projects around Cloquet are being noticed after the ebbing Covid-19 pandemic shut many projects down due to a shortage of materials in the past year. The Pine Knot News talked to a few business owners and representatives about their projects. If your businesses has similar new, moving or expanding news, send your information to PKN reporters at [email protected]. Dance studio The building at 1404 Cloquet Ave. has lost its round roofline, a vestige of its original use as a...
The Northridge Park stage needs to be updated, according to the Thomson Township board of supervisors and a local resident. The stage is experiencing structural problems with the footholds, and the stairs on the side of the stage are also in need of repair. Dawson Broman, a resident of the township, brought these issues to the attention of the board at their June 17 meeting and proposed some solutions. Prior to the meeting, Broman met with a contractor, who proposed repairing the stage, including the footholds and stairs. After some discussion...
The Frank Lloyd Wright house known as Mäntylä, Finnish for “under the pines,” that formerly made its home in Cloquet, was featured on the CBS “Sunday Morning” program June 27. Mäntylä was commissioned by the same family that built Cloquet’s Wright-designed gas station: Ray and Emmy Lindholm. Their daughter Joyce and her husband, Daryl McKinney, had fallen in love with Wright’s work when they were students at the University of Minnesota. In 2016, Peter and Julene McKinney donated the Cloquet hom...
Wrenshall High School Fourth Quarter B Honor Roll Bruddy Axtell Bryce Barczak Eli Beetcer Gavin Beetcher Joseph Bergman Hennessey Bilges Ethan Blanchard Othin Carter Pidge Eckdahl Easton Everett Briar Fernquist Brennen Fisher-Merritt Elizabeth Johnson Jenna Johnson Mark Johnson Natalya Kacer Nathaniel Kopponen Joel Lembke Melany Lonetto Eden Loucks Anne Mattson Ryker Miller Paige Olson Austin Skagerberg Magdalene Sowada Willow Sowada Kaya Stark Wesley Ward...
Carlton Schools Fourth Quarter A Honor Roll Grade 12 Colin Emerson Elizabeth Hey Jayna LeBrasseur Trevor Ojibway Daniel Sandoval Grade 11 Olivia Anderson Kash Gibson Morgan Laveau Grade 10 Korah Crane Eliza DeCaigny McKenzie Midge Emma Peterson Dylan Schwartz Michaela Sundeen Grade 9 Michael Cadott Brayden Drake Luukas Korpela Gavin LeBrasseur Megan Matarelli Sam Ojibway Grade 8 Gavin Gibson Lauryn Hilton Jackson Korpela Amber Lawry Ayden Ojibway Julia Peterson Kayla Radtke Aryanna Rodeghiero Amy Schwoch Grade 7 Alex Gillette Riley Kedrowski...
Carlton Schools Fourth Quarter B Honor Roll Grade 12 Adam Anderson Daniel Eggert Annika Johnson Samantha Matarelli Ella Rose Palmer Kyle Siiter Emma Simmer Jairid Ward Grade 11 Haley Ableiter Kenneth Alberti Nicholas DeVriendt-LeDoux Aaron Ermatinger Holly Grondahl Dakota Hegg Erik McPhail Noah Olsen Thomas Orlowski Carly Parker Joseph Solomon Cole Thompson Grade 10 Rochelle DeLovely Gunner Fadum Mason Hyry Bryant Magnuson Sebastian Mickle Grace Rathe Steven Saari Grade 9 Sofie Herman Elijah Kot Donnamae Martinez Adaline Midge Gibson Reed...
The Arrowhead Library System is offering teens an online writing workshop with award-winning Minnesota Author Mary Casanova July 26-30. A small group of teen writers will create new work, share with others and discuss the writer’s craft and journey. The free, week-long workshop is for teens ages 13-17 who will meet online each day from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Workshop size is limited.Registration is required. Visit www.surveymonkey.com/r/2021alswriting workshop or call 218-741-3840. Casanova is the author of 39 books, ranging from picture books t...
Happy Independence Day. I hope folks will celebrate safely with family and friends now that most of the pandemic restrictions have been lifted. About three weeks ago, I had the opportunity to have a get-together with family and friends to celebrate my 75th birthday and even enjoy a visit from my son and daughter-in-law from California. We ate a lot of food, took family pictures and played some lawn games, including molkky — a gift from the Lance Seboe family. Molkky, aka finska, is a popular F...
Graduates from the Cloquet High School classes of 1953, 1954 and 1955 will gather at The River Inn later this month. In addition to Facebook and other means, 1954 CHS grad Wendell "Windy" Falstrom placed a small ad in the Pine Knot News to let people know about the event. I connected with Fahlstrom at his home in Napa, California. These graduates are in their 80s and it's just a thrill for Windy to come back to Cloquet and rejoin his former classmates. "Once a person moves away and then reflects...
With the heat wave in late May and early June, berry picking season is arriving early in Carlton County. Strawberry farmer Steve Schulstrom held out a perfect, bright red strawberry Monday morning, but partly green strawberries were still in the majority at Spectrum Farms. Still, he expected to open for picking later that week, a full week ahead of the early July estimate they made earlier in the month. "This year it got hot early on. Essentially, the plants woke up from sleeping and it was...
We are beginning to see some of the longer-term effects of the Covid-19 pandemic as life returns to normal. For many, the more precise term could be "new normal," because things are nothing like they were before the world basically shut down 16 months ago. That's especially true in the regional labor market, where a shortage of workers has many businesses struggling to get help as customers flock back to venues outside of their homes. The literal signs are everywhere, most notably in the...
Consolidation between the Carlton and Wrenshall school districts is no longer on pause. It's dead. The Carlton school board on Monday voted to remove consolidation from its list of future options for the foundering district. Left on the list are two expensive options for district residents: turning the South Terrace elementary into a preK-8 school and releasing high schoolers to another district, or creating a new preK-12 school at South Terrace. While the Carlton board plans to conduct a...
Carlton County will host a walk-in Covid-19 vaccination clinic from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Carlton County Community Services Building in downtown Cloquet. People age 18 or older can pre-register or just walk in for a Johnson & Johnson or Moderna vaccine. On top of that, anyone who gets their first Covid-19 vaccine through June 30 will be eligible for a special reward. Rewards include entrance passes to the Great Lakes Aquarium in Duluth, a 30-point Mall of America Nickelodeon Universe pass, an annual Minnesota fishing license, a...
Things really are getting back to normal. Always a bellwether of spring with its March opening, Gordy’s Hi-Hat is now signaling the end of the pandemic by ending its carhop-style of service. On June 17, the popular local burger joint announced they were transitioning back to counter service only, after trying to provide both carhop and counter service for several weeks. “It just wasn’t going to work as efficiently as we had hoped,” read the Hi-Hat Facebook page. “Thank you for understanding and for allowing us to continue to serve you. We l...
There's a new thrift store in town, but there's a lot more going on than resale at this store. Located at 901 Cloquet Ave., Northern Lights Community Action provides secondhand clothes, furniture, kitchenware and many other essentials. They also provide jobs, and vocational training for people with disabilities. Northern Lights Community Action was started by Heather Wright. Wright is also the president of NorthStar Community Services, a nonprofit organization in Cloquet. The idea for the...
What a new jail or justice center will look in Carlton County continues to evolve as several groups work on specific issues for the project. Recognized as the largest, single county building project since the Carlton County Courthouse became a reality in 1922, the studies are centering on: • The feasibility of construction at the Transportation Building site off CSAH 6, aka old Highway 61. • The size and plan for the building; • A plan to possibly incorporate the courts at the same site; • The layout for increased traffic at the junctio...
It’s been a rough week for the Cloquet Police Department, but the issues are caused by construction work on 14th Street rather than a crime wave. On Monday, the phone lines and internet were down because a fiber optic line was cut. The line was repaired by Tuesday morning, and then a construction company struck a gas line outside City Hall on Tuesday. A press release issued just after noon Tuesday said the combined City Hall and police department building is temporarily closed. It was reported they had resumed normal operations before the e...
The Minnesota Department of Transportation is hosting a virtual public meeting at 5 p.m. Wednesday to discuss the upcoming Minnesota Highway 210 box culvert replacement project. The 2022 project includes the replacement of four box culverts from the Tamarack River in Wright to Otter Creek near Interstae 35. For more information and a link to the virtual meeting, visit: www.dot.state.mn.us/d1/projects/hwy210-boxculvertsreplacements/index.html. Participants can also call 773-831-9018; phone conference ID: 677 848 015# for audio only. A...
Although the thrift shop is closed, the Salvation Army social services office is still open. Call 879-5447 for information on programs offered at 316 Carlton Ave. The food shelf is open 4-6 p.m. Mondays as well as 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Tuesdays....
Do bad things really happen in threes? This was definitely my third bad Memorial Day. On May 31, I had just traveled home with my mom from visiting family in Illinois, about a seven-hour drive. It was a beautiful afternoon and since I had been sitting all day, I decided to wash my car. This was no surprise to my husband, Sean. He knows my mind is constantly processing what I can accomplish next. Plus, I am self-diagnosed with a "little" obsessive compulsive disorder and living on a dirt road...
The CarltonCounty Fruit.org. website is the one-stop spot for information on local fruit farms. The site has links to each farm website and/or social media pages along with hotline numbers for picking times. Leaning Barn Farm 218-349-7696 176 Thomson Road Esko Sweet Land Farm 264 Prevost Road Cloquet 218-260-9448 Blackbirds & Blueberries 3601 Crosby Road Cloquet 218-879-8193 Spectrum Farm Strawberries 2332 County Road 4 Carlton 218-389-6265 Farm LoLa 852 Cemetery Road Wrenshall 218-203-5995 Chub Lake Blueberries 2001 Kiehl Road Carlton...
