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The Lions Clubs International wants you. Joanne Ogden, district governor of Lions Clubs District 5M10, was in Cloquet Tuesday recruiting people to start a new Lions Club in Cloquet. The Lions Club is a service organization made up of 1.4 million members in 206 countries, with several pillars of service, including sight, environment, childhood cancer and answering local needs. “They say the Red Cross is always there, but the Lions Club usually beats them there,” Ogden said. “The Lions think the best people to help are the people already there...
The good news? Ward 3 Cloquet city councilor Dakota Koski just bought his first home. The bad news? It's not in Ward 3. That means Koski will have to step down from his council seat as soon as he makes the move from his current residence on Eighth Street to his new home in the Sunnyside neighborhood, which he expects to happen July 1. City administrator Aaron Reeves said the council will have a choice between setting a special election as soon as possible, or appointing someone to fill Koski's...
The Cloquet Police Department is asking for help with its investigation of alleged shots fired Thursday night. According to a press release from the Cloquet Police Department, on Thursday, May 30, around 9:30 p.m., officers responded to the Fond du Lac Gas & Grocery Store for a report of a person who had been shot inside their SUV. Officers learned the juvenile victim was a passenger in an SUV traveling south on Brevator Road when another car approached and fired something at their SUV, causing two windows to shatter. A passenger inside the...
Contractors broke ground last week on the biggest road project in Cloquet this summer, the complete reconstruction of Washington Avenue. The $3.074 million project includes all of the busy roadway, from Minnesota Highway 33 to County Highway 45. For now the work is limited to the portion between Highway 33 and 14th Street, where the pavement has been removed and work on storm sewer crossings and city of Cloquet sanitary sewer is underway. That section is still open to local traffic, although...
Anne Marie Chelin-Anderson, 57, Holyoke, was sentenced to 90 days in jail on May 23 by Judge Robert Macauley in the Carlton County Court. The sentence was stayed with conditions. Chelin-Anderson had been charged with two counts of criminal sexual conduct of an inmate in a correctional facility, both felonies, for an offense on or about April 23, 2018. The criminal complaint stated that Chelin-Anderson, a teacher of an employment class for inmates at the Moose Lake prison, had made sexual...
The Cloquet Police Department is looking for any tips regarding a burglary of the B&B on Monday, May 27. The burglar caused damage to a door, and stole numerous cigarette cartons. The police have posted photos of the burglar, who is dressed in a dark colored hoodie and wearing a mask and large blue shoes on their Facebook page. If anyone recognizes the suspect through clothing or knows someone selling a large amount of Marlboro cigarettes, police are requesting they call or message the tip line. Tips can be privately messaged, called into...
Since a resident broached the idea earlier this year, members of the Cloquet Planning Commission and Cloquet City Council had been pecking at the idea of changing city code to allow residents to keep chickens in certain residential neighborhoods with large enough lots. The draft ordinance would have allowed residents to keep up to five hens (no roosters) in the suburban residential or R1 districts on lots a minimum of half an acre. A previous attempt to change the law died for lack of a second in 2012, but would have allowed chickens on...
If you have any outstanding warrants, please take advantage of the warrant resolution clinic coming up Thursday, June 13 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Ojibwe School gym, 49 University Road, Cloquet. The Carlton County Courthouse, local prosecuting agencies, local law enforcement and the public defender’s office are collaborating with the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa to sponsor this warrant (Minnesota warrants only) resolution event. Walk in on your warrant and the criminal justice community will work together and make their b...
Consolidation with the Carlton school district was not discussed during the Cloquet school board meeting Tuesday, but Cloquet schools superintendent Michael Cary confirmed that he expects to meet with Carlton superintendent Gwen Carman again soon. They had an initial conversation after Carman reached out to him, and he asked for more details on what consolidation between Cloquet and Carlton would mean in terms of impact on faculty and taxes, he said. “We would need to see a compelling reason t...
Measles. I remember the classes in medical school talking about different childhood diseases which I hoped I would never see. Measles was one of them. We studied about it: symptoms include fever, cough, conjunctivitis, rash and coryza (runny nose). We were tested on it, but thankfully never saw the disease. At one point in America, it was thought to be eradicated. What a great victory for the health of the public. It was one less devastating disease to worry about. As you have heard in the news, measles has been making a strong comeback. If...
The Cloquet Food Service Department will provide lunch to the children of Cloquet at no charge. The 2019 Summer Feeding Program will provide nutritious meals to children who may not otherwise have access to healthy food when school is out. Starting June 10, the kitchen at Cloquet High School will provide open lunch to all children and will continue through Aug. 15 from 11 a.m.-noon Monday through Thursday each week. Children 18 and younger may receive free lunch through the program. Lunches are also available to persons with disabilities over a...
A request for proposals for a new Carlton County jail has been approved by the Carlton County Board of Commissioners, as planning for the new jail continues to unfold. The vote was 4-1 with Commissioner Tom Proulx voting against. “This action by the board is not locking us into a set contract or design,” Sheriff Kelly Lake said. “A site should be chosen as soon as possible in order to have construction drawings in which we will approximately know how much the facility will cost. We are committed to an 84-bed facility.” The site of the current...
Julian Kitto, Alijah Petite and Mikinaak visited Churchill Elementary School Friday, to wish the fourth-graders - who will attend middle school next year - a good journey through their education and their lives. Kitto and Petite both drum with other members of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, at home, at powwows and even over the lunch hour at Cloquet High School. Mikinaak is the name of the drum they brought to Churchill. In English, the name translates to "snapping turtle." "The...
With Gov. Tim Walz yet to sign the set of state budget bills the Legislature passed over the weekend, Cloquet Area Fire District chief Kevin Schroeder said he was “95 percent sure” that the fire district got one of its three three requests. Language that will allow CAFD to bond and incur debt is included in the omnibus bill that passed both the House and the Senate. The new language fixes changes made to the bill that created the fire district in 2009. With the fix, the fire district could bond...
By the end of next week, Paul Gassert will retire from his job as Carlton County auditor/treasurer. Gassert has been with the county since 1990 and is one of the longest-serving elected officials in the county. Gassert announced his decision to retire effective May 31 at the tail end of the Carlton County Board of Commissioners meeting on May 14. Chairman Dick Brenner said Gassert's announcement caught the County Board completely by surprise. "Thinking about it after the shock was over, I...
Robotics teams from Cloquet and Esko got a taste of the big stage spotlight in Detroit in late April during the FIRST Championship. FIRST, an acronym for "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology" was a new experience for Cloquet students this year. Ripsaw Robotics coach Cameron Lindner said he is excited to see where things will go after the inaugural season. "We need to focus on ... finding mentors for the next season." That means the team will be looking for adults with...
Memorial Day begins early for Honor Guard members each year, as they stop at the various cemeteries dotted across the county. It’s important to make that effort, said Cloquet Combined Honor Guard Captain Rich Chasse. “What we do, what people do when they go to these programs and cemeteries, it honors those veterans who died in combat,” said Chasse, who joined the military during Vietnam, but is a Korean service veteran, having served three tours there. “They made it possible for us to be able...
After some debate Tuesday, Cloquet city councilors unanimously approved a temporary pay raise for Cloquet police commander Carey Ferrell, who has been fulfilling the duties of police chief since Chief Jeff Palmer went on “voluntary paid leave” effective April 16. The increase will take Ferrell’s pay rate from $85,722 per year to $102,096 a year, prorated for each month. The raise will be backdated a month, and the council approved two additional months of extra pay but asked that the arrangement...
The Carlton school district is flirting with the possibilities of consolidation with Cloquet as discussion with Wrenshall has ebbed and flowed over the past few years. At the school board meeting Monday, there was some back-and-forth about how Carlton superintendent Gwen Carmen is approaching Cloquet. School board members Ann Gustafson and Jennifer Chmielewski said they thought the board agreed last month that it was going to devise a letter to send to Cloquet. Instead, they heard this week that Carmen met with Cloquet superintendent Mike...
Cloquet had 29 students participate in the Minnesota Academy of Science State Science Fair in March. The annual competition showcases Minnesota's best and brightest students in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math. Six students from Cloquet received Grand awards - the top award at state - recognizing excellence in scientific research. Students are ranked according to their poster and presentation score. There are gold, silver and bronze Grand awards. Eighth-grader Emily...
Our region is flush with great food. From the Fond du Lac Band's indigenous gardeners to Mahtowa beekeepers, Wrenshall sustainable farmers, Carlton shiitake mushroom growers, Esko picklers, Moose Lake brewers, and Cromwell orchardists - the "grow, shop and eat local region" is prospering here. Meet our food lovers and enjoy the favorite dishes they actually cook and eat at home. Meet Francois Medion Growing up in a farm family north of the Bordeaux region in southwest France - where wine and...
It may sound like the real deal, but the Federal Trade Commission and the Social Security Administration are warning people to beware of fake calls that claim to come from Social Security. According to the FTC, the caller usually says your Social Security number has been suspended because of suspicious activity, or because it’s been involved in a crime. Sometimes, the scammer wants you to confirm your SSN to reactivate it. Sometimes, he says your bank account is about to be seized — but if you go put your money on gift cards and then give him...
Cloquet city council members had many questions at their Tuesday meeting, tabling two of five votes on the agenda because councilors wanted more time for research and more questions answered before voting. Tabled for now were requests for zoning changes for a proposed parking lot from Sammy's Pizza owner Mike Acheson, and for nearly $100,000 for three different police vehicle purchases. The most contentious issue was the parking lot request, as neighbors of Sammy's Pizza turned out to voice stro...
Cloquet city administrator Aaron Reeves told Cloquet city councilors Tuesday that the move from the current city hall and police department is now anticipated to take place June 14, rather than next week, due to construction delays. “We were supposed to be up and running at the end of next week,” Reeves told the councilors during Tuesday’s work session. “The only thing that didn’t show up are the doors. Literally the whole moving-in process was delayed as a result.” Once city employees have moved the one block from the current city hall locati...
The Cloquet police department and city administrator Aaron Reeves recently clarified that owners must leash pets, although actual stray animals are not a violation. Section 8.2.06 of the city code notes that: “No owner or keeper of any dog shall negligently or intentionally permit the animal to run at large, as that term is defined in Subd. 10 of Section 8.1.01, within the City of Cloquet.” The police department reminded citizens to keep their pets on a leash and get them microchipped in case they do get loose....
