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The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa announced a new policy Monday that limits access to nearly all Band-owned lands on the reservation. Over the upcoming months, the band will post lands with signs that read “No Trespassing, Fond du Lac Band permit required” along with additional information on how to obtain a permit. Band-owned lands are defined in the tribal policy as “all lands owned in fee or held in trust on the Fond du Lac Reservation for the Band, the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, or any allotment land where the Fond du Lac Band...
With police in the region reporting a rash of school bus stop-arm violations — and a close call in Cromwell last week when a car passed a stopped bus on the right and nearly hit an exiting student — its a good time to review the Minnesota State Patrol’s safety rules of the road when it comes to student transportation. • Parents should discuss and demonstrate pedestrian safety with their children and reinforce safe crossing after exiting a bus. • When getting off of a bus, look to be sure no cars are passing on the shoulder side of the road....
Using a relatively new geographical software known as ArcGIS, science fair students in Cloquet are taking their projects to new levels and winning awards. Two teams of Cloquet High School students took first and second place in the 2019 Minnesota ArcGIS Online Mapping Competition for "story maps" they created as part of their science fair projects. First place winners Payten Schneberger and MacKenzie Brummer examined the effect things like weather, industry and wind have on ozone levels in...
Carlton County teams delighted audiences in competition Saturday, but only the Esko team is moving on to the next level of competition. After placing first at the subsection competition in Two Harbors, Esko will perform "Our Place" at the One Act Play Sectionals at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1 in Aitkin. "As a first time co-director, I thought the competition was great," said Joyce Bergstadt. "It was very interesting to see what type of play each school brought to the competition and then to see...
A Honor Roll Grade 9 Travis Anderson Robert Anderson Brody Anderson Luke Barney Mason Beck Amy Blais Kollin Bonneville Aili Buytaert Roena Diver Patrick Dunaiski Alec Erickson Ellise Evenson Austin Farleigh Miles Fischer Eva Flovick Mariah Fonoti Isabella Genereau Alexis Goranson Garrett Gordon Sophia Green Francesca Halverson Macie Hoffmann Lauren Johnson Araya Kiminski Lance Konietzko Josiah Larson Nicholas Lassard Bailey Lehto Connor Lindstrom Emily Litchke Macie Majerle Casey Marciniak John McGrath Alexis Nelson Katelyn Olson Emma Port...
Requirements for earning dean’s list honors include maintaining a GPA of 3.0 or higher while completing 12 or more course credits during the semester. Local students are: Barnum Arraya Laitinen Coltt Sullivan Christopher Wright Carlton Aaron Baxley Elijah Blue Kaitlyn Johnson Calli Rosier James Stracek Jonathan Stracek Benjamin Talarico Cloquet Ahna Anderson Joy Armstrong Annee Beck Naomi Bents Darlene Bobrowski Carmen Bocanegra Timothy Bongs Nevaeh Bridge Nikkita Buckanaga Samantha Childs Edward DeFoe Shania DeLille Jessica Dixon Chantel D...
Homecoming week is here at the school. The coronation will be tonight after the boys basketball game. This year’s candidates are: Shaily, Micah, Taya, Taye, Anja, Cameron, Josie, Ben, Emmalee, Garrett, Amber, and Gage. Good luck to them all. The Farmer’s Co-op Store in Wright is now at a point where the manager had to take money out of savings to cover some expenses. Sales have gone down. The only thing that makes sense at this time is to shorten store hours at least for the winter months. So,...
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College is hosting a Nursing and Healthcare Career Expo 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 6 in the Lester Jack Briggs Cultural Center Gymnasium on campus. The event is freee and open to the public. The fourth annual expo is designed to provide information about current job openings available with regional employers and the wide range of career opportunities available in health sciences fields. Representatives from more than 35 employers representing a variety of nursing and healthcare career fields including laboratory...
As if shoveling the driveway and sidewalks isn't enough - now some people are hurting because they didn't shovel their roof? The short answer is yes. Cloquet building official Matt Munter said it's an issue of poor ventilation in the attic or not enough insulation, allowing heat into the attic and through the roof. "As heat loss on the roof occurs, it melts the snow on the roof. As the melted snow finds its way to the overhang, it'll freeze and cause an ice dam right at the edge of the roof,"...
Cloquet's new city administrator started work last week, but he's no stranger to the Cloquet area. Tim Peterson lives in Esko with his wife and their two children, ages 12 and 8, and had worked as the city administrator in Moose Lake for three and a half years before taking the Cloquet job. Prior to working in Moose Lake, he was deputy clerk finance director for the city of Proctor; before Proctor, he worked as finance director for the LifeHouse nonprofit that provides support to homeless and...
Ready, set, act. It's not quite a race, but things will be happening pretty fast Saturday when Cloquet High School hosts a one-act play competition in the school's recently remodeled auditorium. Six different schools will perform in the one-act play subsection event here. Because the Section 7AA competition is in Cloquet, there won't be a separate performance here as there were in the past. The cast welcomes the public to see them perform at noon. Plays will be presented from 10 a.m. through...
James Montano, on trial for a murder and assault in rural Carlton County in April 2018, was found guilty on all three of the charges against him Wednesday: first-degree premeditated murder and intentional second-degree murder for the shooting death of his uncle, Andrew Gokee; and the attempted premeditated first-degree murder of his cousin, Hudson Gauthier. The jury heard closing arguments Tuesday afternoon after six days of testimony and deliberated late into the evening before reaching the...
New Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College president Stephanie Hammitt had her day in the spotlight as local and statewide dignitaries, college staff and students, friends and family filled the college amphitheater Tuesday to see her honored as the fourth and first woman president of the 33-year-old institution. More than one person - including Minnesota Commissioner of Higher Education Dennis Olson and former FDLTCC president Larry Anderson - declared Hammitt the "perfect" person to lead the...
Residents of the Carlton and Wrenshall school districts received a community survey regarding consolidation talks and facility plans between the two districts earlier this month. Copies of the survey were mailed to school district residents and any parents/guardians of students who open-enroll into either district. Staff received the survey electronically. In her report for Tuesday’s Carlton School Board meeting, Superintendent Gwen Carman said the consulting firm handling the survey had received 549 surveys from people in both districts as o...
With little fanfare, Cloquet's new water treatment plant came online in December and so far things are going swimmingly. Residents should notice little change in tap water because the plant is filtering a mineral that hasn't been present in recent years, after the city quit using one of its five wells. Now that well - which previously provided 30 percent of the city's water - is back in action, but with no added manganese because of the city's new $6.6 million facility. Manganese occurs...
We've just finished a heady year of two-month exhibits by Carlton County artists in our refurbished Pine Knot offices on Avenue C in Cloquet. It's been quite a whirl. Altogether, we hosted works by seven artists. We've enjoyed working with them to hang their creations, hosted receptions for each show, and written about them in our weekly newspaper. We began 2019 with Ken Hanson's marvelous three-dimensional paintings of Jay Cooke landscapes on two-dimensional canvas. We hosted Lloyd Backus'...
Esko High School actors will transport their audience and judges to the lakeside in their One Act performance of "Our Place." The play is composed of five scenes and an epilogue, all of which take place on a dock, explained director Joyce Bergstedt. Each group of characters that comes to the dock claims it as "our place" for a variety of reasons. The play concludes with all characters returning to the stage for at least a part of the epilogue in which the characters express their point of view...
Cromwell-Wright High School selected "Hard Candy" by Jonathon Rand for this year's One Act play. Director Mary Rose Varo said it's a funny play, centering around a fast-paced series of hilarious interviews by job applicants at Banff Enterprises who will do anything to claw their way up the corporate ladder. "We have a cast of eight very talented junior high and high schoolers, several of them playing more than one role," said Varo. The director and music teacher pointed out that plays in...
A Nesting Place at Cloquet’s Community Memorial Hospital is a group for new moms with infants up to a year old and anyone in their third trimester of pregnancy. Mothers are welcome no matter where they live or delivered their baby. The free service strives to provide a safe and supportive environment to discuss all postpartum issues: breastfeeding, baby blues, anxiety, depression, sleep, relationships, exercise and nutrition. Meetings are facilitated by healthcare professionals, and the content will be dependent on the group’s needs. Ref...
Minnesota health officials have confirmed an infant death related to pertussis, also known as whooping cough. The infant was diagnosed with pertussis in August 2019 and died in November after being hospitalized for three months. The last pediatric death related to pertussis in Minnesota was in 2013. “We were extremely saddened to hear that this child passed away,” said Kristen Ehresmann, director of infectious disease at the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH). “Pertussis continues to be a concern in Minnesota, and we want to do every...
The Wrenshall elementary art club is open to students in grades 3-6 and meets once a month for 90 minutes after school in Molly Kidd's art room. She says students ask about the next month's offering as each monthly meeting ends. "They are so engaged during art club, it's really fun to see," Kidd said. "I really see a difference in the students' demeanor while they are making art. It is a special time that they can just let go and focus on creating." I talked to Kidd after learning about the...
What does winter in Finland consist of? Snow. Cold. Dark. But, if you really look, there’s more to Finland’s winter. Snow ... but with the excitement of skiing, sliding, skating, hiking, winter camping and all kinds of winter sports that Finns enjoy and love. Cold ... but with the sharing of warmth and connections during sauna time and other gatherings with friends and family. Dark ... but with the brilliance of the dazzling lights of Revontulet (the Northern Lights) that dance and sway to nature’s music during cold winter nights. We in north...
Pro stock racer Jason Line announced that this will be his last season on the National Hot Rod Association circuit. He has had a very successful racing career starting at age 15. He has won championships in 2006, 2011 and 2016 and has 50 pro stock wins over his career. We wish him all the best this coming year, as he will be staying with Ken Black Racing. Jason said “we’ve got a great family there. My position is just going to change a little bit, that’s all. My heart was always in drag racin...
The Minnesota State Arts Board has awarded an Artist Initiative grant, totaling $10,000, to Cloquet artist Adam Swanson. Swanson will use the funding to research and create a series of ten paintings featuring federally listed endangered species in Minnesota, exhibiting the paintings at the Great Lakes Aquarium in Duluth and the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul. The Artist Initiative grant program helps artists complete projects that enhance their careers and help them reach and serve a wider audience. Artist Initiative grants support...
State Rep. Mike Sundin (DFL-Esko) announced his intention to run for another two-year term in the Minnesota House of Representatives in this year’s general election, and again plans to seek the DFL party endorsement. Since 2013, Sundin has served District 11A, consisting of all of Carlton County as well as portions of Pine and St. Louis counties. “Serving in the Minnesota House is the greatest honor of my life, and I’m extremely grateful for the trust people in our region have placed in me,” Sundin said. “We need to ensure all children...
