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Got questions about Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College? For more than two decades, Tom Urbanski has been the person to ask many of those questions as the lead person for marketing and public relations. If Tom didn't know, he'd be able to point you in the right direction, almost always with an affable grin and likely more information than you even knew you needed. At the same time, Urbanski has woven himself into the fabric of the larger Cloquet area community, serving on the city's Parks...
Homecoming week for Wrenshall is coming up next week and despite the differences in its delivery, it will be full of festivities. There are dress up days throughout the week and, given that some parents are still having to work from home, they might want to get in on the costuming as well. Tuesday is sports day, Wednesday is pajama day, Thursday is cartoon day, and Friday is school spirit day. The actual homecoming coronation ceremony will be livestreamed on the Wrenshall School Facebook page....
In late February, Taysha Martineau walked out of the protest camp she built in a small patch of woods near her home on the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation and knelt in the middle of the road. Elders from her community surrounded her, scolding, telling her to leave. "Go," they shouted. "We want you out of here. Don't do this to us." For several weeks, Martineau had been welcoming activists to the plot of land she had dubbed Camp Miigizi - which means "eagle" in the Ojibwe language - to take part... 
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The County Seat Theater Company will present the romantic comedy "Almost, Maine" beginning April 9 for live audiences and online from the Encore! Performing Arts Center in Cloquet. The play is described as "residents of Almost, Maine, find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal, and the hearts mend-almost-in this delightful midwinter night's dream." The story has nine short "magical moments" scenes,...
Political flags flying in Scanlon underneath an American flag have caused a lot of consternation in the community. At the corner of 22nd Street and Doddridge Avenue, which runs along the border between Scanlon and Cloquet, is a tall flagpole next to a home. It has three flags. At top is the American flag, second is a "Trump 2024" flag stating "F*ck your feelings," and third is a flag that says "F*ck Biden" and "F*ck you for voting for him." The Pine Knot News chose to not explicitly spell out...
AJ Miller was doing some drone photography high above the St. Louis River in Cloquet Sunday when he noticed the interesting patterns created by the growing stockpile of logs on the Sappi paper mill property adjacent to the river and train tracks. It was Miller's first time seeing the area from the air. Logging trucks trying to beat the spring thaw and road restrictions have filled storage areas all around the plant....
The future of the Carlton County Extension program services appeared up in the air Monday when the County Board shifted a vote on the proposed restructure to a Committee of the Whole meeting April 6, despite the presence of a number of County Extension committee members, people from the business community, plus staff from the University of Minnesota Extension. The board did not hear from any of the audience members before postponing the discussion. The Extension program has a long history in the county. It was set up as an educational outreach...
Two women died in a rollover crash in southern Carlton County Tuesday. According to the Minnesota State Patrol incident report, Angela Marie Severson, 35, of Pierre, South Dakota was driving a Chevy Blazer northbound on Highway 23 near County Road 8 at approximately 6:17 p.m. Tuesday when the vehicle left the roadway, rolled and hit a tree. Both Severson and her passenger, Jennifer Lynn Bokusky, 36, of Apple Valley, died in the crash. Neither was wearing a seatbelt and the airbags in the vehicle did not deploy. It is unknown if alcohol was a...
Effective Monday, March 29, the Carlton County coordinator’s office and human resources office will relocate from the Carlton County Courthouse to the old Cloquet City Hall building in Cloquet at 1307 Cloquet Ave. All business related to these offices will be conducted at the new location. Contact coordinator Dennis Genereau at 218-499-1573 with any questions....
Voting in the semifinal ended in the Great Minnesota Burger Bracket — sponsored by Minnesota Public Radio’s Warming House program — and the battle between Gordy’s Hi-Hat and the Rusty Nail in Battle Lake is over. The Rusty Nail will advance and the rest of us will just enjoy our favorite burger from Gordy's HiHat. To find out more, visit mprnews.org/thewarminghouse....
Local health care organizations are partnering with Aunt Bertha, an established network of nonprofits and social care providers, to provide a free online platform that allows anyone to easily find and connect with local free and reduced-cost programs. The program name is “Resourceful” and its goal is to make it easy for people facing social needs to find and make referrals to appropriate programs and services for food, shelter, health care, work, financial assistance and more. Visit weareresourceful.org for more onformation and to learn how...
The Esko school board approved a revamped graduation party for its students that will be abbreviated from the traditional all-night event during its meeting Monday night. In previous years, graduates would board a bus after the ceremony and enjoy a cruise on the Vista Fleet in Duluth, while parents prepared the gymnasium for an all-night event designed to keep students in a safe environment. Last year, the event was canceled due to the pandemic. This year, the parent-run organizing committee...
In contrast to last fall’s “doom and gloom” budget forecast, Cloquet superintendent Michael Cary was almost optimistic about the revised budget numbers during Monday’s Cloquet school board meeting. It helps that the state budget office recently predicted a $1.6 billion surplus, swinging from a predicted $1.3 billion deficit. Cloquet school district finance director Candace Nelis walked board members through the revised figures and predictions for the next school year. She based next year’s...
Following the federal tax deadline extension, the Minnesota Department of Revenue has announced a grace period for taxpayers filing their annual Minnesota Individual Income Tax return for tax year 2020. Those taxpayers now have until May 17, 2021, to file and make their payments without any penalty or interest. “This grace period for the individual tax filing and payment deadline provides timely relief to Minnesota families,” said Gov. Tim Walz. “As we work to get through the Covid-19 pandemic together, my administration will do every...
Carlton County has been awarded $10,167 in state set-aside funding through the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program. These funds are specifically designated for area food shelves and nonprofits serving Carlton County to help with food, shelter or utility needs. A Local Board of representatives from the Carlton County Board of Commissioners, United Way, Catholic Church and local ministerium, Fond du Lac Reservation, Salvation Army, Tri-Community Food Shelf, and Carlton County Public Health and Human Services will determine how the...
The Cloquet Housing & Redevelopment Authority will open the Section 8/Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) waiting list on Thursday, April 1. The application forms will be available in the front entryway at Aspen Arms, at the CHRA office located inside the building at 950 14th Street in Cloquet, or online at www.cloquetcarltonhra.org. Completed applications must be returned to the Cloquet HRA office and will be entered onto the waiting list in the order in which they are received. Additional preference points are given for residents of Carlton County,...
Despite receiving a petition from 27 area residents, the Thomson Township Board of Supervisors voted Thursday to push back the paving of East Riverside Road and Serenity Way to 2022 because of a planned building project that could negatively impact a new road surface. It’s not the first petition submitted to township officials. In 2014, residents submitted a petition, but it was rejected then because the township had a comprehensive plan for repaving. According to the petition, that plan stated that all roads would be paved by 2018, yet East R...
Kirsti Marohn MPR News The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency says contamination from PFAS — so-called “forever chemicals” — has been detected in groundwater at nearly 60 closed landfills, at amounts higher than the state’s acceptable levels for safe drinking water. Fifteen of the closed, mostly unlined landfills have PFAS contamination at least 10 times higher than the state’s health-based advisory values. One — Gofer Landfill near Fairmont in Martin County — is more than 1,300 times higher. Carlton County’s former landfill near the current...
"Arya The Protector," a children's picture book by Cloquet author Burton Laine, won a first-place children's book award in the 2020 Christian Author Awards. In the book, the sheep on a farm have no reason for fear, because Arya, a shepherd dog, is a protector that is always there to watch over them and protect them, a reminder that God keeps us safe. The book is illustrated with 24 photographs from the farm, of the shepherd dog interacting with the farm family and the sheep. The photography is...
At 4:37 a.m. on March 20, we officially passed into spring with the vernal equinox. We’ve tipped the scales and there is a little more light every day. Our family joined plenty of other folks around the area with a big fire in the backyard to boil down sap. I saw two trumpeter swans fly across the fields just as I was putting the maple syrup into jars. In the greenhouse, our onion seeds are up about an inch in their flats. After checking on the starts, I grabbed an onion from the root cellar o...
For its 20th anniversary, One Book Northland committee has selected "The Nickel Boys" by Colson Whitehead as the 2021 One Book Northland title. The committee selection was influenced by the cancellation of the 2020 events for that year's selected title, "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson, due to the pandemic. The topic of racial injustice presented in this nonfiction work still needs to be made available for community discussion, and so a coordinating fiction work was carefully researched and...
A Cloquet man accused of murdering his pregnant girlfriend and her young son was in court virtually March 4, as his new attorney and prosecutors met to decide on dates for an important contested omnibus hearing delayed by grand jury proceedings last fall. It was the first hearing for 34-year-old Sheldon Thompson since that Carlton County grand jury voted to charge him with five counts of first-degree murder in October 2020. In total, Thompson faces eight charges: two charges of murder in the first degree, premeditated and murder in the first de...
A Cloquet man was charged this week with criminal vehicular homicide this week for causing a head-on crash in September that killed another driver. Tony Northrup, 54, was charged Monday, March 15 in Duluth Sixth District Court in connection with the death of Melissa Kalinoski, 42, of Cromwell. According to the Minnesota State Patrol report, Kalinoski was driving west on Highway 2 east of Brookston when Northrup crossed the centerline and hit her head on while traveling eastbound on Highway 2. Kalinoski died at the scene and Northrup suffered...
A Two Harbors man pleaded guilty Monday to five counts of criminal vehicular operation-great bodily harm, admitting he was under the influence of alcohol when he hit a car occupied by a family of four on Midway Road last summer. It was the second time that Rodney Drake Scandin Jr., 36, pleaded guilty after the previous plea agreement was revoked by the prosecution. According to the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, a car occupied by four family members was stopped on Midway road facing north on June 26, 2020, waiting to turn west onto Stark R...
A Cromwell man is facing multiple charges after fleeing police in the early hours of Saturday morning in a high-speed chase. David John Aho, 20, is charged with felony fleeing a peace officer in a motor vehicle and misdemeanor and gross misdemeanor charges of driving while impaired, two counts of criminal vehicular operation, minor consumption and speeding. According to the criminal complaint, Carlton County Sheriff’s Office deputies were on patrol at 2:04 a.m. Saturday, March 13 when they clocked a care driving 71 mph in a 60-mph zone on H...
