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A 16-year-old boy was shot and killed outside a home on the Fond du Lac Reservation early Monday morning and an arrest warrant was signed Tuesday for another teenager, 18-year-old Joseph James Fohrenkam, who is wanted by police. According to a press release from the St. Louis County Sheriff's Office, deputies and officers from the Fond du Lac Police Department responded to a call at 1:19 a.m. Monday reporting that someone was shot. When officers arrived at the rural St. Louis County home, they...
There will be a free Covid-19 saliva testing event 1-7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 5 at Moose Lake School. This is open to all families and community members in the area. You don’t have to have symptoms to test. Results will help public health better understand the spread in the community along with identifying any asymptomatic individuals who may unknowingly be spreading the virus. Questions? Email [email protected] The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is holding another free three-day Covid-19 saliva testing event Jan. 6-7 at the F...
Martin “Dude” Barr, who owned Barr Brothers Funeral Home in Cloquet with his brother, passed away Dec. 26. He was 95. Barr and his brother, Bob Barr, started their first funeral home in Carlton in 1951, then quickly bought a funeral home in Cloquet, according to Dude’s son, Brad Barr. They were in business here for more than 30 years, during which time Bob worked as the county coroner and Dude as the deputy county coroner. “That was before you had to be a medical examiner,” Brad said. Although they never worked together, funeral director...
Carlton County residents are encouraged to recycle their Christmas trees during Treecycling, a free program with dropoff locations throughout the region that will take trees through Jan. 11. • SAPPI Fine Paper gatehouse entrance, Cloquet. • Moose Lake compost site across from city garage. • For other locations, visit wlssd.com Holiday light strings can be recycled at the Carlton County Transfer Station....
Despite an 8-percent increase in health insurance costs, the Carlton County Board of Commissioners approved the smallest property tax levy increase in years on Monday, voting to set it just 2 percent higher than last year. The levy for 2021 will raise $28,790,977 through property taxes. Following are some of the ways the levy will be allocated: • $8.2 million for public health and human services; • $3.67 million for roads and bridges; • $3.46 million for the sheriff’s office; • $2.5 million for the county jail; • $2 million for community c...
Locally, nationally and internationally, Sappi has been working hard at sustainability practices and people are taking notice. In February, Sappi North America received the SEAL Business Sustainability Award for Environmental Leadership, in particular for the land application program at the Cloquet mill. On Dec. 3, Sappi North America won a different sustainability leadership award, this one for a reclaim and reuse project at its mill in Skowhegan, Maine. And in early December, all three regions... Full story
Duluth's Lakewalk hugs several miles of the city's Lake Superior shore, from the Canal Park tourist district all the way to Brighton Beach. With its sweeping view of the lake and the city, the trail is a destination for locals and the more than 6 million people who visit the city every year. But for the past few years, it's also been an active construction site, as the city slowly rebuilds the Lakewalk after sections of it were ripped to pieces by a series of intense storms a few years ago -... 
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Residents and visitors to the Stanton Lake area on the Willow River will see increased levels of construction activity and truck traffic in the coming weeks as the damaged Willow River dam is removed and is replaced with a rock arch rapids. The dam, built in the 1940s, breached in July 2016 after a large flood overtopped the dam and eroded the adjacent embankment. Earlier this month, workers temporarily diverted the river channel and dewatered the work area so they could remove the failed concrete dam. In the next phase of construction — expect...
A 16-year-old boy was shot and killed outside a home on the Fond du Lac Reservation early Monday morning and an arrest warrant was signed Tuesday for another teenager, 18-year-old Joseph James Fohrenkam, who is wanted by police. According to a press release from the St. Louis County Sheriff's Office, deputies and officers from the Fond du Lac Police Department responded to a call at 1:19 a.m. Monday reporting that someone was shot. When officers arrived at the rural St. Louis County home, they... Full story
The 16-year-old boy who was shot and killed earlier this week was Joseph James Peterson, of Cloquet and Fond du Lac, according to a press release from the St. Louis County Sheriff's office Friday morning. St. Louis County Sheriff's Office deputies and officers from the Fond du Lac Police Department responded to a call at 1:19 a.m. Monday, Dec. 28 reporting that someone was shot. When officers arrived at the rural St. Louis County home on the 3600 block of Giiniw Road, they found a deceased... Full story
Carlton County residents are encouraged to recycle their fresh-cut Christmas trees during Treecycling, a free program with dropoff locations throughout the region. “Holiday trees, like yard and garden waste, are banned from the trash in Minnesota,” said Karen Anderson, WLSSD’s director of community relations. “Trees contain valuable resources that can be reclaimed through Treecycling. Collected trees will be beneficially reused as fuel, as mulch to line paths or for other purposes, while recovering resources and saving landfill space.” As in th... Full story
The 2020 Christmas Lighting Challenge winners were announced this week, with individual winners for Duluth, Cloquet, Superior and Hermantown. In Cloquet, Reliable Insurance on Carlton Avenue won Best in business, not surprisingly, and will move into the Masters category next year. Steve Torgeson won for Cloquet in the residential category; find his home at 5164 Canosia Road. Duluth was voted favorite Christmas City and Superior’s Brett and Amanda Defoe won the master category; find them at 2101 East Third St. in Superior. Find all of this y...
According to an email from Cloquet schools superintendent Michael Cary, the district is eying Jan. 4 for the Cloquet school district to begin to evaluate its ability to return elementary students to classrooms. This follows new recommendations from the state which allows and even encourages school districts to return elementary students (not secondary) to full in-person instruction, even when county case rates remain elevated, beginning on Jan. 18. If districts choose to return students to in-person or hybrid learning, the implementation must...
The good news for the Carlton school district is that there were no surprises and things stayed pretty much the same as years before in the annual audit released Monday night. That’s also the bad news as the district continues to face rising costs associated with more students living within the district choosing to go to school somewhere else. The district is not getting “economies of scale,” reported Matt Mayer from BerganKDV, which performed the audit. He was reporting at the final regular meeting of the school board for the year. In 2016,...
Prekindergarten through second-grade students in the Esko school district will return to in-person learning effective Jan. 19, following both the recommendation of Gov. Tim Walz and a unanimous vote by the Esko school board Monday night. The governor — a teacher for more than 20 years — announced last week that the state’s Safe Learning Plan had been updated to allow every elementary school across the state to return to in-person learning effective Jan. 18, as long as they can implement addit...
The Thomson Town board came through bigtime for Esko Community Education during its meeting Thursday, Dec. 17. These are tough times for the organization, which is part of the Esko school district. Community Ed has suffered financially from the pandemic — which restricted classes and activities, resulting in reduced revenue — and asked for funds from the town’s recreation fund. After agreeing to donate $2,000 to Community Ed as it has for years, along with an additional $2,000 to sponsor Esko...
The Cloquet Police Department held its fourth annual Stuff the Squad Dec. 16 outside the Cloquet L&M Fleet Supply and Walmart stores, where people were invited to fill the squad cars with new, unwrapped toys, games, or sporting equipment for the Cloquet Area Salvation Army Toy Drive. Pictured at the L&M store Saturday are CPD officers Laci Silgjord and K-9 Vader, Trevor Kaldor, Ryan Lunda, Dave O'Connor, Larry Sherk and James Demko. O'Connor said between the two stores, the CPD collected five...
Through the contributions of Lake Country Power’s participating members, the Operation Round Up trust board recently approved $53,497 in assistance to various community programs during its quarterly meeting. The cooperative’s trust board reviewed and considered 40 grant applications and distributed funds to 38 projects and programs this past quarter. Since the program’s inception in October 2004, more than $2.5 million has been distributed to community-based projects and programs. Carlton County recipients included the Cloquet Educa...
To thank the men and women who are building Line 3 and the communities all across the right of way, Enbridge purchased more than 3,600 gift cards from northern Minnesota restaurants, totaling more than $90,000. “We wanted to find a way to give back to the communities and businesses in northern Minnesota who we know have experienced significant economic strain due to the pandemic, while also thanking the construction crews who are building the Line 3 Replacement Project,” says Lorraine Little, director of Community Engagement. “Purchasing these...
The Lake Country Power rural electric co-op expects to award college scholarships valued at $4,000 each to more than 30 high school students in 2021. Scholarship recipients can qualify for up to $4,000 over four years to help pay for college or technical school. Scholarships are renewable for up to eight semesters, and students must maintain a grade point average of 2.5 or higher. They must have a full-time enrollment status at a technical school, community college or university. The online application process opens Jan. 1 and ends Jan. 31....
Not too many locals can say they make most of their yearly income from Christmas sales. I make mine harvesting and selling spruce tips from the swamps here in Carlton and other surrounding counties. It's hard work, and it's changed over the years, but I love it. I am - like others who go into the swamps - a "swamp rat." When I was a kid in the 1950s, there were truckloads of black swamp spruce Christmas trees shipped to the South. My uncle, Ray Koivisto, hired men from the Automba area and 10,00...
A 16-year-old boy was shot and killed on the Fond du Lac Reservation early Monday morning. According to a press release from the St. Louis County Sheriff's Office, deputies and officers from the Fond du Lac police department responded to a call at 1:19 a.m. Monday, Dec. 28, reporting that someone was shot. When officers arrived at the rural St. Louis County home on the 3600 block of Giiniw Road, they found a deceased 16-year-old male outside. Initial investigation found the deceased was shot... Full story
At the end of 2020 - a year that many would like to forget - Cloquet will lose a long-standing and beloved business when Pete & Sons service station closes. It's been the best year in recent memory for the 52-year-old business, said John Fink, standing inside the garage at the full-service gas and repair station on the eastern end of Cloquet Avenue. John and Jerry Fink are the "sons" on the sign. The brothers have been working at the service station since they were youngsters. Jerry's been there... Full story
The Carlton school board this week firmed up its position when it comes to the current standoff with the Wrenshall board and possible consolidation between the two neighboring districts. On Monday, the Carlton board agreed in a committee of the whole discussion that it would vote at its regular meeting Monday on the question of debt sharing should a consolidation take place. Should the board vote to not share debt among all taxpayers in a new district, consolidation could be off the table. At least half of the six-member board indicated Monday...
Minnesota lawmakers passed new Covid-19 assistance legislation for Minnesota workers and businesses Monday night in a special session, and Governor Tim Walz signed the package into law on Wednesday. The small business relief package includes a 13-week extension of unemployment benefits for workers and grants for businesses most impacted by the pandemic. "The Covid-19 pandemic has caused unthinkable economic pain for our small businesses and the workers who staff bars, restaurants, and so many... Full story
