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Esko High School Honor Roll Quarter 2 Emma Adkins Kaitlyn Adkins Ashley Aker Jason Amireault Claire Anderson Karin Anderson Keone Anderson Simone Anderson Siri Anderson Santiago Anich Joseph Antonutti Rachel Antonutti Ellahna Barnes Ellynor Barta Joel Barta Alena Beare Mollie Belich Aspen Berg Cairin Berger Cuinn Berger Alexander Bourgeault Cadence Brissett Owen Campanario Braeden Caple Emma Cekalla Samuel Cheslak Ayden Chopskie Jordan Chopskie Megan Chopskie Brynn Christensen Ty Christensen Liberty Clifford Avah Clow James Cornell Michael... Full story
Carlton High School Quarter 2 A Honor Roll Grade 12 Kristian Herman Elizabeth Hey Jayna LeBrasseur Samantha Matarelli Trevor Ojibway Kristina Wuorio Grade 11 Nicholas DeVriendt- LeDoux Kash Gibson Thomas Orlowski Carly Parker Joseph Solomon Grade 10 Korah Crane Eliza DeCaigny Gunner Fadum McKenzie Midge Emma Peterson Michaela Sundeen Grade 9 Michael Cadott Brayden Drake Elijah Kot Gavin LeBrasseur Megan Matarelli Sam Ojibway Grade 8 Gavin Gibson Lauryn Hilton Jackson Korpela Amber Lawry Ayden Ojibway Julia Peterson Kayla Radtke Aryanna... Full story
Barnum High School Quarter 2 A Honor Roll Grade 7 Emily Class Alizondra Collelo Lucy Franek Sophia Frank Grace Grover Kash Johnson Ivar Kasberg Kyson Landwehr MaKenna Nordstrom Morghan Nynas Ava Nyquist Aleksander Shefchik Hartleigh Stecyk Grade 8 Kaden Carlson Kyler Clarke Casey Corrigan Connor Corrigan Jack Dobosenski Bryce Ferguson Eli Gilbertson Rijah Jones Janaya Jurek Madison Koecher Pierce Korpela Aili Lund Kairi McCoy Lily Newman Landen Oetterer Brooklyn Peterson Neela Piri Alexis Poirier Makayla Sheff Megan Swenson Avery Westendorf... Full story
In June of 2020, we turned off County Road 6, just east of Barnum, and onto the gravel driveway at the Johnson family farm. It may be our new home, but it will always be the Johnson farm. We had just come from Moose Lake, where we had signed the closing papers. Ed Johnson had handed us several large sets of keys. We still aren't sure what some of those keys open. We parked, got out of the car and started to walk. Nothing needed to be said. My fiancé, Heather-Marie Bloom, and I knew where we... Full story
A public safety alert went out to cell phones across Carlton County after 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19, alerting people to avoid the area near Cary and Enger Roads to Mission Road. According to a press release, just before noon Friday, Fond Du Lac police responded to protest activity blocking Ditchbank Road. As people were dispersing from the area at 12:40 p.m., Carlton County 911 Dispatch received a call that three people had thrown suspicious packages out and left the area. Deputies from the Carlton County Sheriff’s Office responded. A bomb s... Full story
In the afternoon hours of Friday, Feb. 19, bomb squad personnel responded to a suspicious device on the 3200 block of Ditchbank Road in Perch Lake Township. After careful examination, it was determined that the device was not an explosive agent. During the incident, 40 residences were evacuated within a half-mile radius of the device. A temporary shelter was set up and available for the people that were evacuated. Law Enforcement transported anyone that needed a ride. At this time, anyone that was evacuated may return to their homes. Law... Full story
Sexual abuse survivor K.M. addressed the courtroom during the sentencing for her former high school basketball coach, Robert Pioro, at the Carlton County Courthouse Friday afternoon. She read a victim impact statement to the people in the courtroom — including Pioro and one of his attorneys — and a host of people watching the proceedings online. “The first time he kissed me, I cried. I can still remember how disappointed I felt knowing that everything had changed. As I cried, he told me that some parents kiss their kids on the lips. And then... Full story
The on-again, off-again talks between the Carlton and Wrenshall school districts regarding consolidation are officially off again. Superintendents and school board members agreed last week that it was time for a “pause” in current negotiations regarding a merger that has been kicked around for more than a half-century. The pause marks an end to a flurry of consolidation maneuvers in the past two years that saw the school boards agreeing on a two-site plan that would utilize the South Ter...
Esko schools plan to expand a tutoring program for students who fell behind during distance learning, after a pilot program led by high school principal Greg Hexum showed good results. The high school tutoring program will provide remedial help and focus on credit recovery, which is for juniors and seniors who may need help to earn the credits needed to graduate. The elementary school program, led by principal Brian Harker, will focus on remedial needs in the core subjects such as reading and math. Esko school board members approved both plans...
Thanks to the cold snap, the Cloquet School District started winter busing for those students who are not eligible to ride regular buses because they live too close to a school. These routes started this week — both morning and afternoon — and will end at the district’s discretion sometime in the spring. Unlike last year, there is not a separate bus for the winter route. Superintendent Michael Cary said parents must call the Cloquet Transit office to make arrangements for their child to ride the bus, because students will have to be sched...
By working with as many sources as possible, the Cloquet school district is making good progress getting staff members vaccinated for Covid-19. Superintendent Michael Cary told Cloquet school board members that they started the process with the state efforts, but found that when 42 people traveled to the regional vaccine center in Mt. Iron there wasn't enough vaccine to go around. More recently, Carlton County has been an incredibly important partner in the process, he said. "The last couple of weeks the county has gotten doses that they're...
After months of consideration, the Thomson Township board of supervisors has decided to enter a three-year agreement with a new engineering firm: Advanced Engineering and Environmental Services. Joe Jurewicz, a project engineer with the firm, previously worked for MSA Professional Services, which has worked with the township for more than 15 years. Jurewicz recently accepted a position with AE2S, sparking the discussion of a change in the town’s contracted engineering to a larger firm and yearly contract, as opposed to a project-by-project b...
The Carlton County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to make changes to the way the county operates the Carlton County Transfer Station. Zoning and Solid Waste Management administrator Heather Cunningham presented a plan that would end a contract with private contractor Mahkahta Trucking and hire two full-time employees to run the processing of demolition refuse coming into the facility. The station would continue to have three half-time employees, two to run the office and one...
The Floy Gilman Scheidler Scholarship Foundation provides scholarships to residents of Carlton County who are pursuing a post high school education. The Foundation was established in 1999 by former Esko High School English teacher Floy Dickison and her sister, Ona Scheidler, a former Cloquet High School business teacher. They established the foundation in honor of their mother, Floy Gilman Scheidler. Applicants must be residents of Carlton County and must have maintained a 3.0 GPA and been in the top 50 percent of their graduating class....
Correction: This is the Quarter 1 Honor Roll, but was originally posted as Quarter 2. Quarter 2 will be posted as soon as it is available. We apologize for the error. Cloquet High School Quarter 1 A HONOR ROLL Grade 9 Elexis Anderson Drew Angell Madyson Babineau Joseph Bailey David Baker Hannah Bastien Owen Brenner LeeAna Burley Ava Carlson Elise Cawcutt Ella Chartier Quinn Danielson Macy Dearborn Kiana DeFoe Emmie Doesken Ethan Doty Madison Fredrickson Anders Gunelson Riley Hall Isaac Hill Makenna Horvat Kiley Issendorf Eli Jazdzewski Kloey... Full story
FDLTCC Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College in Cloquet announced that 145 students attending the college last fall earned dean’s list honors for the semester. Here is a list of students from the area who made the list: • Barnum: Christen Klejeski, Abigail Mickle, Brittney Nelson • Brookston: Autumn Pesonen, Kelsey Warner • Carlton: Elijah Blue, Alisha Broneak, Saydee Clemens, Annabeth Johnson, Johnette Ostlund, Sierra Rustom • Cloquet: Ahna Anderson, Hailey Anderson, Peggy Armstrong, Jesse Bahen, Jessica Benson, Shantell Berglund,... Full story
A former Carlton teacher and girls basketball coach was sentenced Friday to 33 months in Minnesota state prison for criminal sexual conduct charges stemming from a sexual relationship with a student athlete nearly 20 years ago. Robert Kent Pioro, 63, pleaded guilty and was sentenced for four counts of felony third-degree criminal sexual conduct for engaging in sexual penetration with a person who was 16 years old when he was in a position of authority over the victim. The guilty pleas were the result of deals with both Carlton County and St.... Full story
A federal judge says Enbridge Energy can proceed with construction on its contentious Line 3 oil pipeline, less than a week after a state appellate court panel also denied a request from Minnesota tribes and environmental groups to temporarily block work on the project. The Red Lake Band of Chippewa, White Earth Band of Ojibwe, the Sierra Club, and the Native American-led environmental group Honor the Earth filed suit in federal court in December, seeking to overturn a key permit issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. At the same time,... 
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The city of Moose Lake lost power to homes and businesses on Monday during subzero temperatures. According to information released by city officials, there was an explosion in a regulator at the north substation at 7:20 p.m. The Moose Lake police and fire departments responded. “The fire was almost out when we got there,” said Moose Lake fire chief Jim Michalski. There were no injuries. He said a regulator across the street from the plant exploded. A warming shelter was opened at the Moose Lake Community School for those who had lost their sou...
Wrenshall High School Quarter 2 A HONOR ROLL Natylee Anderson Connar Ankrum Patrick Ankrum Liam Bruce Lillian Eckdahl Sage Fernquist Mason Goetz Brooke Kent Elliana Lattu Ryan Mattson Alex Murray Samantha Nyberg Paige Olson Isaias Padilla Camden Peterson Owen Resberg Isabel Riley Jack Riley Zeke Rousseau-Sheff Molly Sheda Janae Sjodin Magdalene Sowada Kaya Stark Birk Stensaas Alexis Swanson Nadia Tessier Eli Twedt Rilee Wolfe B Honor Roll Joshua Anderson Bruddy Axtell Bryce Bartczak Gavin... Full story
Cromwell- Wright High School Semester 1 A HONOR ROLL Grade 12 Justin Aho Eliana Anderson Daniel Belden Daniele Butera Brandi Collman Elisabeth Kachinske Andrew Kosloski Aiden Lehti Katherine Libbon Grade 11 Jacob Anderson Scarlett Korpela Alaina Lind Jay Olesiak Andrea Pocernich Zevvus Smith Chandell Warner Michael Zoeller Grade 10 Angela Dilly Noah Riley Foster Isaac King Sascha Korpela Jacob Measner Steven Ridlon Payton Rosbacka Liam Schoenberg Payton Smith Nika Tkachenko Grade 9 Elliott... Full story
After winning 15 state awards after its first full year of operation, the Pine Knot News doubled its haul last week, collecting 33 awards from the Minnesota Newspaper Association through its annual contest judging newspapers for overall quality. The unprecedented number of awards means the Pine Knot office now holds the Mills Trophy from MNA as the "Minnesota's most outstanding weekly newspaper." The trophy has been in the hands of just a few papers the size of the Pine Knot in the 40 years it... Full story
In December, former Carlton girls basketball coach Robert Pioro pleaded guilty to four counts of felony third-degree criminal sexual conduct stemming from a sexual relationship with an athlete some 20 years ago. Two weeks ago, another girls basketball coach was arrested on similar charges with a 17-year-old girl on his team this year, a case that is only beginning to wind its way through the courts to an unknown conclusion. Those charges came only a week after the arrest of a Cloquet man for first-degree sexual conduct with a 15-year-old girl.... Full story
Dan Britton, a driver for Cloquet distributor Upper Lakes Foods, chats with Matt Baker from competitor US Foods last Thursday in Duluth's Canal Park. Britton said he knew Baker when he first started at Upper Lakes and catching up with him was just natural. He laughed at the notion of competition getting in the way of basic friendliness. "It's no big deal to me," Britton said. "When I worked for Pepsi, I talked to the Coke guys." Food and beverage distributors in the region are busy early this...
The Cloquet library opened to the public again on Monday, Feb. 1. Open hours are Monday-Friday 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. and 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday. The library will be observing the following protocols to ensure the continued safety of the public and library staff: • Anyone entering the building will be required to wear a mask at all times • No open food or beverages will be allowed • Hand sanitizer will be available at various locations throughout the library Patrons will be able to use the computers, browse the shelves and check out mater... Full story
