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Shield 616 and the Cloquet Eagles Club worked together to make Cloquet's newest school resource officer (SRO), and the children he is there to protect, a little bit safer. On Wednesday, Feb. 12, SRO Larry Sherk was presented with gear from Shield 616, a nonprofit organization that raises money to provide law enforcement officers with better protection. The nonprofit group was started after founder Jake Skifstad, a former Colorado police officer and SWAT team member, responded to a shooting at a...
Voting to have your local sales taxes raised to fund a particular project isn't as easy as it used to be. Prior to this year, voters could approve proposals on Election Day, then ask the legislature and governor to give their blessing to the funding plans. But the 2019 tax law called for stricter legislative control, including that voter approval can now only occur after the legislature has vetted the projects and granted taxing authority to a municipality or county to fund them. The proposals...
The first sign that the former Applebee’s building may have new owners came when a crew of workers were crawling all over the extensive roof earlier this month, shoveling off snow. Carlton County assessor Kyle Holmes confirmed that the building at 1405 Highway 33 was purchased by the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa for $600,000. The seller was Koller Family Trust and the filing date was Dec. 30. In response to the Pine Knot News, spokesperson Rita Aspinwall said the Band has no formal plans for the longtime restaurant site at this p...
Across the highway and about a block north of the Applebee’s site, the former Lemon Tree Liquor and Gas store at 1212 Highway 33 has also been sold. According to the county auditor’s office, the property sold for $140,975 to Pru Properties in May 2019. The seller was Brenner-Pollard, Inc. The Lemon Tree closed in late 2016 and has been vacant ever since. Pru Properties is a commercial and residential real estate development and consulting business. It declined to comment on plans for the building....
The following are the results of court cases as reported by Carlton County District Court in Carlton: Schullo, Kelly Marie, 28, Duluth - 4/23/2018 - Possession of a Narcotic Drug not Heroin in the Third Degree - Felony. Plead Guilty 9/16/2019. Disposition: 9/30/2019 - Placed on Adult Supervised Probation for 3 yrs. Credit for 9 days served. 2nd Offense: 8/17/2018 - Damage to Property - 1st Degree - Felony. Plead Guilty 9/30/2019. Disposition: 9/30/2019 - Adult Supervised Probation 3 yrs. with Conditions, Restitution $1,293. CCSO Overland, Lola...
Students, parents and teachers talked to the Barnum school board at its monthly meeting Tuesday, Feb. 18 to express their concerns about proposed staff cuts following news that the district needs to make significant cuts or it will go into the red. Kyle, a student, spoke first and listed two items that the students wanted the board to realize: that academic needs are met by the students’ relationships with the teachers, and that the students care deeply about each and every teacher. A high school teacher asked if restructuring, such as a f...
When firefighters responded to a fire on 13th Street in Cloquet earlier this month, it wasn’t their first visit. According to Cloquet Area Fire District captain and public education coordinator Sarah Buhs, CAFD had been proactively involved years before disaster struck the duplex at 115 13th Street on Feb. 1. In 2017, CAFD staff updated and installed smoke alarms in the home. They also discussed the importance of having an escape plan for the entire family. The day the fire occurred, the smoke alarms that were installed in 2017 alerted the o...
A Cloquet man faces a felony charge of mistreating or torturing an animal after he allegedly stabbed a dog in the neck. According to the criminal complaint, Shayne Jason Thompson, 42, banged on the door of his girlfriend’s father’s residence on Jarvi Road on Feb. 3, allegedly yelling accusations about the daughter at the homeowner and accused him of lying for her. It was reported that Thompson had a knife in his hand. The homeowner said he went upstairs and Thompson left, but when he came back downstairs he noticed his dog was lying on the flo...
The Carlton Soil and Water Conservation District returns to the Cloquet library with a fun activity for kids Monday, along with a program for families and adults at City Hall, all centered on the topic of recycling, repurposing and better waste management habits at home. From 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 24, kids can enjoy a hands-on activity repurposing and being creative with “waste” materials in building rubber band cars from recycled goods during the library’s Tinker Club program. On the adult-oriented front, county resource and recyc...
The Floy Gilman Scheidler Scholarship Foundation provides scholarships to residents of Carlton County who are pursuing post-high school education. The foundation was established in 1999 by Floy Dickison, former Esko high school English teacher 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....
Cloquet’s Bailey Gibbs graduated from Minnesota State University in Mankato Dec. 14 with a degree in marketing....
At University of Wisconsin-Madison: • Thomas Heren, College of Engineering, dean’s honor list • Claire Taubman, College of Letters and Science, dean’s list At University of Minnesota Duluth: • Ethan Bergman, junior, College of Liberal Arts • Jordan Bolos, junior, Swenson College of Science and Engineering • Galevy Connor, senior, Swenson College of Science and Engineering • Julia Hill, sophomore, College of Education and Human Service Professions • Eric Newman, junior, College of Education and Human Service Professions • Alec Norrgard, seni...
A woman rear-ended a Cloquet school bus last week, but there were no serious injuries as a result. The crash was reported at 4:39 p.m. Feb. 11 on the 1500 block of 14th Street in Cloquet. According to Cloquet superintendent Michael Cary, the few students still on the bus were brought to the hospital for examination while parents were contacted by the bus company, he said. Initially the driver and all children denied any injuries, but Cloquet Transit later reported that one child was injured....
The Carlton school district alerted parents Feb. 13 that a student had “made a verbal threat to student safety” at the middle school/high school but the threat was deemed not viable. Superintendent Gwen Carman said the situation was investigated by administration and reported to the Carlton County Sheriff’s Office....
The Minnesota nonprofit If the Dress Fits is coming to Barnum High School 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday to give away prom dresses to teens in grades 10-12. The dresses are free and available to students at any area high school and no proof of financial need is required. There may be ID checks. “We have hundreds of dresses,” said program cofounder Ashleigh Arntson. “We have an amazing inventory, sizes 0-26....
Congratulations to Beth Clark on her 500th win as the head coach of the Hermantown Hawks girls basketball team on Feb. 13. Beth is originally from Cromwell, graduating in 1977. She was one of the first girls to play basketball when Title IX was instituted. She played on the varsity team in the seventh grade when Stan Verich and I were the coaches. Title IX prohibits federally-funded educational institutions from discriminating against students or employees based on sex. The Title IX education...
The only thing Chris Swanson lost in Tuesday's special election was the "interim" title for the Ward 3 Cloquet City Council seat. Swanson garnered 84 votes to 14 for Uriah Wilkinson on Tuesday, out of a possible 1,299 registered voters in Cloquet's Ward 3. Swanson was pleased to win, but also praised Wilkinson, father of five and a Realtor in the area for the last 15 years. "I have Uriah's sons in class right now. They are wonderful and lovely human beings," said Swanson, a history and...
Sue Peterson had some choice words about the survey results released this week regarding how residents feel about the possible consolidation of the Carlton and Wrenshall school districts. “Atypical.” “Shocking.” “Surprising.” Peterson works for School Perceptions, the company hired by the school districts to guide the survey. The school boards wanted a clear idea of where residents stood on consolidation and the costs to accomplish it. They want it. And they seem willing to pay for it as well....
It was supposed to be an "impromptu" act, a quiet ceremony more for employees than the general public. There was likely good reason to keep things on the down-low. While the Northern Pacific Railroad had been buoyed the month before by a cash infusion from Jay Cooke, it really was nowhere near ready to begin the Herculean task of laying a rail line from Lake Superior to the Pacific Ocean. But word got out. People traveled by rail from Duluth and Superior on the new Lake Superior & Mississippi...
The double whammy of fewer students and state and federal mandates that aren’t fully funded has the Barnum School Board looking at major cuts to keep the budget in the black. The issues aren’t new, nor are they unique to the Barnum school district. However, after five years of deficit spending, the school board now needs to make $750,000 in cuts or risk going into statutory operating debt. A large crowd of concerned residents attended the working meeting of the Barnum school board Feb. 4. It wasn’t so much a presentation from staff to audie...
On Monday, the Cloquet school board took a vote that made students and staff safer AND saved the district money. Instead of spending between $100,000 and $180,000 to replace the district’s aging walkie-talkie system — many of the devices are failing and often don’t work throughout the buildings — board members voted to switch the district to an emergency cellular network. Rather than walkie-talkies, the district will purchase FirstNet iPhones (at a cost of 99 cents each) with a Push-to...
On the third Thursday morning of each month (10:30-11:30 a.m.), the Second Harvest Mobile Food Pantry comes to the Our Savior's Lutheran Church parking lot in Cloquet to distribute food. What is unique about this food bank operation? The patrons stay in their cars and have - if you total it all up at the end of the day - tons of food put into their cars, vans, and pickup boxes as they parade by local volunteers who load it up, 50-75 pounds at a time. It's quite the operation. Dan Wilson, Second...
The state of Minnesota has set a closure date for the Carlton County jail of July 31, 2023. The deadline came in a letter from the Minnesota Department of Corrections, dated Jan. 28, 2020, delivered to Carlton County sheriff Kelly Lake and county coordinator Dennis Genereau. Tim Thompson, inspection and enforcement director of Minnesota Corrections, detailed numerous deficiencies in the current Carlton County jail “impacting the safety and security of the facility, the staff, and the citizens of Carlton County” during Tuesday’s regular meeting...
A Honor Roll Grade 12: Alaina Bennett, Alisha Broneak, Madelyn DeCaigny, Spencer Hoeffling, Abigail Mickle, Brynne Mickle, Taylor Nelson, Austin Parker, Annabell Pearson, Matthew Santkuyl, Benjamin Soderstrom, Jessica Sutter, Justin Swanson, Benjamin Talarico Grade 11: Haley Adkins, Shea Campbell, Kristian Herman, Elizabeth Hey, Annabeth Johnson, Samantha Matarelli, Seth Mlodozyniec, Trevor Ojibway, Johnette Ostlund, Ella Palmer, Spencer Rousseau, Jairid Ward Grade 10: Olivia Anderson, Alaina Kiehl, Morgan Laveau, Sarice Northrup, Joseph...
A Honor Roll Patrick Ankrum Liam Bruce Sage Fernquist Hunter Holmes Kaylie Lammi Elliana Lattu Hannah Lattu Joel Lembke Katarina Mattson Tyler Mills Sujata Mumma Alex Murray Alexis Nelson Samantha Nyberg Owen Resberg Jack Riley Zeke Rousseau-Sheff Magdalene Sowada Kaya Stark Alexis Swanson Hailey Tauzell Randy Wimmer B Honor Roll Emma Andrews Connar Ankrum Gavin Beetcher Joseph Bergman Keely Bergman Megan Carlson Lillian Eckdahl Easton Everett Ashley Hart Brie Hoglund Eathen Johnson Elizabeth Johnson Gracelyn Johnson Natalya Kacer Wyatt Kelley...
