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One of Cloquet’s most historic homes is for sale, for a cool $625,000. The house at 1 Park Place was built in 1919, after the previous home was destroyed in the 1918 Fires. A nearly exact replica was constructed after the fire for timber baron and mill owner R.M. Weyerhaeuser, who was the owner and proprietor of the local sawmill (located where USG now stands) as well as Northwest Paper Company. Al and Reneé Birman purchased the house from Tom and Beth Collins in 2010, but said they want to move...
Despite making $143,000 in cuts, the Carlton school board faces an approval Monday of a 2020 budget that shows the district $580,809 in the red when comparing expenditures versus revenue. At a discussion meeting Monday, business manager Renee Eiffler said the budget for next year is still comprised of a “lot of unknowns. We deal with what we know.” School districts in Minnesota are required to submit a yearly budget by July 1. Eiffler and superintendent Gwen Carmen said there will undoubtedly be amendments to the budget expected to be app...
After voting to hold a special election to fill Ward 3 councilor Dakota Koski’s seat at the June 4 council meeting, city officials learned that they have to follow a state calendar for the election, which means the soonest the vote could happen would be Nov. 5. City administrator Aaron Reeves said Ward 3 residents can apply to be appointed in the interim through July 10. The council will interview all applicants before their July 16 meeting — the July 2 meeting was canceled — and appoint an in...
If you missed the last educational forum on e-cigarettes and vaping, don’t worry. The Minnesota Department of Health is hosting two free Tobacco 21 Education Forums Tuesday, June 25. The first forum is 12-1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Cloquet High School Auditorium, 1000 18th St., with lunch provided. The second runs 5:30-7 p.m. at the Moose Lake School Auditorium, 4812 County Road 10, with appetizers provided....
Following are recent felony and gross misdemeanor court cases resolved in Carlton County Sixth District Court. Arresting agencies are abbreviated as follows: Cloquet Police Department (CPD), Carlton County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO), Fond du Lac Police Department (FDL), Moose Lake Police Department (MLPD), Minnesota State Patrol (MSP). Sloan, William Joshua, 40, Cloquet, violation of protective order, felony. Sentenced to St. Cloud for 24 months on May 17. CPD Richards, Trenton Alexander, 28, Mahtowa, first-degree possession of cocaine or m...
Few Carlton County taxpayers attended local boards of review to contest — or at least ask questions about — the estimated market value for the buildings and land they own. Land values continue to improve with a typical 40-acre piece valued at $1900 per acre, which is a 6.5 percent increase from last year. The County Board of Appeal and Equalization, made up of the current county commissioners, met Monday, June 17 with only one homeowner from the city of Carlton appearing in person about his property value. Most concerned property taxpayers had...
The Carlton County attorney’s office filed a lawsuit in federal district court Friday, June 14, against six of the nation’s largest opioid manufacturers — including Purdue Pharma, Cephalon, and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, and the three largest distributors of prescription drugs — McKesson Corporation, Cardinal Health, Inc., and AmerisourceBergen Drug Corporation. Carlton County alleges that these companies used deceptive marketing tactics with the intent to maximize profits while minimiz...
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources are committed to a fair, efficient, and thorough review of Enbridge’s Line 3 Replacement Project applications. After reviewing the Minnesota Court of Appeals’ ruling regarding the Environmental Impact Statement for the Line 3 project, both agencies have determined that, consistent with state law, they may not take final action on the applications pending before them until the Public Utilities Commission add...
There is a new minister for the Bethlehem and Bethany Lutheran parish: Pastor Debra L. Hanson-Carlson will begin her ministry July 1, with her first worship service on July 7. She and her husband will be living in Wright at the former home of Yvonne Peterson, now owned by Tyler Grones. Let’s welcome the Hanson-Carlsons to our area. Our sincere sympathy to the family and friends of Gloria Mae Bertelsen Kelley, 73, of Tamarack, who died June 9 at her home. A memorial service was held June 16 at Be...
While people are living longer today, negative age-related stereotypes are still prevalent in our society. Unfortunately, health struggles and difficult changes in life chapters are a reality. Some people look back and want to hang onto the “good old days.” Reflection can be a good thing, but it can make it difficult to look forward, and imagine new opportunities before us and enjoy the present. If you are asking where you can find new opportunities at “this age,” or what you can do, please consider volunteering. Sharing of yourself, your ti...
The off-again, on-again consolidation discussions between the Wrenshall and Carlton school districts may be on again. Wrenshall superintendent Kim Belcastro told board members at the Monday school board meeting that she and chair Matt Leveau would be meeting with their Carlton counterparts Thursday to come up with a date and an agenda for a joint meeting of both boards, which could happen as soon as July 8. The neighboring small school districts have been discussing consolidation without ever...
CLOQUET SENIOR HIGH Quarter 4 A HONOR ROLL GRADE 9: Amelia Allen, Mason Anderson, Samuel Bailey, Donte Bell, Winnie Benjamin Hall, Ilei Benson, Amaya Bridge, Abigail Brown, Thorin Brown, Samuel Buytaert, Kate Conway, Marina Dostal, McKenah Downing, Carson Essler, Eve Eugenis, Hannah Fink, Bella Harriman, Laura Hecht, Olivia Jameson, Dana Jones, Caley Kruse, Carter Kubis, Jack Liang, Addison Loeb, Olivia Macaulay, Brynn Martin, Carlee Maslowski, Jillian McCullough, Jacob Mertz, Lillian Nygaard, Alijah Petite, Madison Preteau, Cale Prosen,...
Carlton High School Quarter 4 A Honor Roll Grade 12: Jordan Hyry, Kaitlyn Kalli, Scott Rousseau, Peyton Schmidt, Jayden Swanson, Alena Wallin, Jennifer Zylka. Grade 11: Spencer Anderson, Kaylee Asleson, Alaina Bennett, Alisha Broneak, Kaden Crane, Madelyn DeCaigny, Ryan Gray, Ava Grondahl, Spencer Hoeffling, Kaitlyn Kinnunen, Abigail Mickle, Brynne Mickle, Taylor Nelson, Austin Parker, Annabell Pearson, Matthew Santkuyl, Benjamin Soderstrom, Jessica Sutter, Justin Swanson, Benjamin Talarico, Sawyer Thorman. Grade 10: Haley Adkins, Shea...
With the Great Recession firmly in the rearview mirror, local governmental bodies are eyeing and undertaking building projects that many say are long overdue. In most cases, they're correct. Still, the question of how to fund a public building boom has elected officials scratching their heads, and taxpayers worried that property taxes are going to make their homes unaffordable. In Carlton County - and particularly Cloquet - there are so many big-dollar current and proposed projects, it can be...
A young man with an outsized personality and impact on the Cloquet theater world died Saturday, while gardening at his home in Cloquet. Landon Hall, 23, a 2014 Cloquet High School graduate and the director of the past two fall musicals, "Legally Blonde" and "Hunchback of Notre Dame" was so big in the world of CHS theater that he even has a hallway named after him, in bedazzled letters: the Landon Hall Hall. Family, friends, students, fellow actors and alumni, and fellow students at the College...
Following the airing of a Fox 21 news story about a backlog of rape kit investigations in Duluth and the success of related prosecutions, an unnamed Cloquet Area Fire District firefighter is no longer on the job. The firefighter, age 29, was not named in the Fox 21 report, which detailed two different sexual encounters that he claimed were consensual and which the women said were not. In one of the cases, a 16-year-old girl was allegedly assaulted, telling investigators that she eventually complied with the man because he wasn’t going to l...
An Aitkin woman was arrested June 3 after a police officer found methamphetamine in the car she was sitting in. Teresa Anne Wells, 36, was charged with felony first-degree drug possession in Carlton County Sixth District Court on June 5. According to the criminal complaint, an officer from the Fond du Lac Tribal police department received a tip regarding a vehicle on a deadend road in the area of Black Bear Casino that contained controlled substances. When the officer went to the only deadend...
U.S. Congressman Pete Stauber announced that Lake Country Power will receive $52 million in grant money from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development. This investment will be used to finance 1,400 new consumer connections, build and improve 249 miles of line, and invest $17 million in smart grid technologies across Minnesota’s 8th District. Lake County Power provides service to approximately 49,000 customers across 8,319 miles of line in Koochiching, Carlton, St. Louis, Cass, Aitkin, Lake, Itasca and Pine counties. “This grant wil...
Tim Franklin sold his group of northern Minnesota weekly papers to Northstar Media, Cambridge. Included in the sale were the Moose Lake Star Gazette, the Hinckley News, the Pine County Courier in Sandstone, the Askov American, the Evergreen shopper and the Minnesota Flyer aviation magazine, along with Hinckley Print and a variety of related web and mobile sites, events and niche products. Franklin said he was thrilled to find another family owner to purchase his publishing business. Northstar is owned by Gene and Carter Johnson. They run a...
This photograph postcard from 1912 shows the Thomson Dam area between Carlton and Thomson. The bridge is the automobile and footbridge over the St. Louis River. The dam is in the background. The buildings are part of the St. Louis River Slate Brick Company Street and Road Macadam. According to the book "Carlton Chronicles," published by the Carlton County Historical Society, the slate brick plant was built by Jay Cooke interests in the 1890s. The plant used waterpower to grind slate into mud...
Every year on June 15, World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is commemorated in America and around the world to raise awareness of older adults who experience elder abuse, neglect and financial exploitation. Older Americans are vital, contributing members of our society and their abuse or neglect diminishes all of us. Elder abuse includes physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, exploitation, neglect, and abandonment. Perpetrators include children, other family members, and spouses—as well as staff at nursing homes, assisted living, and other f...
The Thomson Township board approved the hiring of a comprehensive plan consultant at its June 6 meeting. The current comprehensive plan is 20 years old and township officials are working on updating it. Planning and zoning commission chairman Dale Reed reported the review of three responses to the request for proposals and was most impressed with MSA Professional Services. The board approved moving forward with hiring the company. Thomson Township already has a relationship with MSA; it acts as...
After sending rezoning and comprehensive plan change requests back to the Planning Commission and getting the same recommendation back — to deny the requests — the Cloquet City council voted 5-1 to approve the requests at its meeting June 4. The requests came from Sammy’s Pizza owner Mike Acheson, who wants to put a parking lot on a lot he owns at the end of Boulder Drive. Boulder Drive is a one-block, deadend street located between the Cloquet Chamber of Commerce building and Sammy’s. There a...
All options are on the table as Carlton County board commissioners try to figure out how to pay up to $10 million for a new or renovated shop building at the Carlton CountyTransportation Center in Barnum. During its Tuesday, June 11 regular session meeting, the board called for public input at a hearing to be held at 9 a.m. July 9 during its regular monthly meeting. Public input is being encouraged in person or by writing a letter. Funding for the transportation garage, whether it’s from a wheelage tax or using monies from the half-cent c...
After deliberating behind closed doors for nearly 80 minutes, Cloquet City councilors fired longtime police sergeant Scott Holman by a 4-2 vote Tuesday night. Mayor Roger Maki and councilors Lara Wilkinson, Kerry Kolodge and Bunn Carlson voted in favor of dismissal, while councilors Dakota Koski and Steve Langley voted “nay.” Councilor Sheila Lamb was absent. Holman was a detective and K-9 officer, and had worked for the Cloquet police department for 22 years. In a written statement, his attorne...
