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The Carlton County Sheriff’s Department assisted with an undercover investigation that led to the largest statewide single seizure of fentanyl in 2019 last week. Raymond Valentino Bowser, 35, of Chicago, Illinois and Denzel Lavon Hale, 29, of Duluth were arrested Nov. 21 in Duluth and charged with first-degree sale of narcotics in St. Louis County Sixth District Court Friday, Nov. 22. Bowser was also charged with fleeing on foot. Both men remain in the St. Louis County Jail under bails of $100,000 each. The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension d...
All Cloquet and Carlton County offices will be closed on Thursday and Friday, in observance of the Thanksgiving Day holiday. This includes Cloquet city offices, courthouse offices, transportation department, human services, public health, motor vehicle license bureau, Veterans Service Office, and the University of Minnesota Extension Service/Carlton County. The Hwy. 210 Transfer Station will be closed on Thanksgiving....
The new Essentia Health Clinic in Cloquet held an official groundbreaking ceremony Friday, and work on the new building is underway following the demolition of the former Driftwood Motel. The building project should be completed next summer....
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is updating the state’s wolf management plan and is looking to the public for input. To that end, the agency is creating a new wolf plan advisory committee to help inform the update to the management plan. Applications are now open for the committee, which is one of several ways the DNR will engage with the public on the plan. “It’s critical to have all voices about wolves at the table,” said Dan Stark, the DNR’s wolf management specialis...
Minnesota Public Radio Minnesota regulators said Friday they plan to conduct their own independent environmental review of the proposed Twin Metals Minnesota copper-nickel mine, rather than collaborating on a joint review with federal regulators. Twin Metals has yet to file its mine plan of operations — which will detail the specifics of the operation, from its physical footprint to how it will handle waste material. That will kick-start the environmental review process. The project has already come under fire for its close proximity to the pri...
The Carlton County Disabled American Veterans and Auxiliary would like to invite everyone to dinner on Thanksgiving Day. Whether you come to eat or to volunteer or both, all are welcome to the free community meal from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 28 at Cloquet's Zion Lutheran Church, 1000 Washington Ave. In addition to the sit-down meal, deliveries are available to homebound residents between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day. People who want delivery should call Zion at 218-879-4647...
While the Carlton and Wrenshall school boards continue slow-moving consolidation talks, some students in the neighboring school districts say they want to be one school district already. “The kids said they won’t play the Jug game,” Community Ed director Julie Jacobson told the Wrenshall board Monday. “They’re done competing against each other.” Senior Randy Wimmer said that’s been a discussion point among his teammates. A football player on the inaugural Carlton/Wrenshall Raptors football team this fall, Wimmer is transitioning to basketball...
Interim Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College president Stephanie Hammitt got the job. She is FDLTCC president after serving as interim president for nearly 18 months. “Stephanie Hammitt has performed admirably as interim president,” said Devinder Malhotra, chancellor of Minnesota State. Malhotra said Hammitt is navigating the college through re-accreditation and the initial accreditation of the associate of science nursing program. “She has earned overwhelmingly positive support from key p...
Development on Big Lake, the future of the sanitary district, cooperative zoning and boat enforcement all entered the discussion at an Oct. 28 meeting between the Fond Du Lac Reservation Business Committee members and officials from Carlton County. The county was represented by Commissioners Dick Brenner and Tom Proulx, zoning and environmental services administrator Heather Cunningham, zoning inspector Dave Hurst, and county coordinator Dennis Genereau. The agenda of the meeting and observations were presented at the Carlton County board meeti...
Only one of three candidates for the Cloquet City Administrator job - Tim Peterson - made it to a second interview, held prior to the City Council work session Tuesday. Peterson, the current city administrator in Moose Lake and previously deputy clerk in Proctor, displayed a good understanding of both the issues and strengths of Cloquet, in a question and answer session with councilors that went both ways. Peterson asked councilors what they see as priority projects for the city. Answers ranged...
A Cloquet man faces murder charges after he allegedly shot and killed his friend after a night of drinking last weekend. Thomas Allen Micklewright, 43, was arrested Nov. 9 and charged in St. Louis County Sixth District Court Thursday, Nov. 14 with second-degree felony murder, without intent. Judge Dale Harris denied Micklewright’s application for a public defender. Micklewright posted a non-cash bond for $125,000 the next day, Friday, Nov. 15, so he is no longer in custody. According to the c...
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is warning residents that ice is still in the early stages of forming on waterways across Minnesota. It’s not safe to be out on it; you run the very real risk of falling through or being caught on a sheet that separates from shore. Ice thickness is highly variable and subject to the whims of Mother Nature. Emergency responders already have responded to incidents where anglers have fallen through thin ice or been stranded on ice sheets that broke off from the shoreline due to heavy wind. It will t...
The Cloquet High School production of "The Little Mermaid" last weekend was both spectacular and record-breaking. The first fall musical in the newly renovated CHS auditorium sold out all four shows for the first time in theater department history. According to director Kevin Hamre, the auditorium holds 520 seats and they added 24 more folding chairs to accommodate the overflow. "We sold out to the max and more each night," Hamre said. "People didn't care where they sat. They just wanted to be...
Alexandria Technical & Community College and Melrose Metalworks hosted Cloquet, above, and Barnum, top, high school students November 6. The high school students were given a walk-through presentation of manufacturing and construction careers. Students were able to visit with instructors and students in the manufacturing and construction and transportation and mechanics divisions. The event was an opportunity for students to explore the distinct environments of the region's advanced...
A honor roll Grade 9: Brody Anderson • Robert Anderson • Travis Anderson • Ashley Austin • 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 • Garrett Gordon • Sophia Green • Francesca Halverson • Macie Hoffmann • Tirsa Horton • Lauren Johnson • Araya Kiminski • Lance Konietzko • Josiah Larson • Nicholas Lassard • Timber Latvala • Bailey Lehto • Connor Lindstrom • Emil...
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College was honored with two Medallion Awards for excellence in public relations, marketing, and communication in the 2019 National Council for Marketing and Public Relations District 5 Medallion Awards competition. The regional Medallion Awards recognize outstanding achievement in marketing communication at community and technical colleges in NCMPR District 5, which includes Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, the Canadian...
Hello, to all the electricity users out there, and that includes most of us. Hopefully, your coffee maker went on this morning, your cell phone was charged, the toaster worked, and your car headlights went on during your dark morning commute. All of these activities most of us depend on are driven by the movement of small subatomic particles called electrons; there is a reason the words "electron" and "electricity" are related to one another. How in the heck do we get these tiny, negatively...
Larry Hamren was laid to rest Sunday, Nov. 17 at the Wright Public Cemetery following a wonderful funeral service with scripture, tributes and songs. Larry left Wright on Oct. 14 to visit his brother Glen and his family in Indiana, with a promise to return to his duties at Bethlehem Church on Nov. 17. Well, he kept his word and was in church for the last time on the 17th. Many of his classmates, friends, and family were there to pay their final respects. Pastor Deb Hanson-Carlson and three...
The phrase Wrenshall resident James Sheetz keeps coming back to is "Now, what just happened?" His sister, Diana Sheetz Carlson, died by suicide in 2013. "It's still there, like every once in a while you get a jolt," he said. One of the ways that Sheetz has dealt with his grief over the last six years is through music. "It just touches your soul in a way that just words can't. It's like the music starts and everything just shifts." Sheetz is a trained musician and conductor and produces regular...
December. Christmas. And what country is more in tune with Christmas than Finland, the home of Santa Claus. Take some time this month to explore online the Santa Claus Village near Rovaniemi with your children or grandchildren by going to www.santaclausvillage.info. You can see live video from the Arctic Circle, visit the reindeer, see Mrs. Claus’ little cottage, watch the elves, and view lots of pictures and videos of life with Santa Claus. Here are some of the celebrations that Finnish groups in the region are hosting. The Knights and L...
ST. PAUL — Felony drug charges are expected in the coming days for two men following their arrests last night during a Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) narcotics investigation. BCA agents arrested the men during an undercover operation in Duluth that the Carlton County Sheriff's Office assisted with. Both were booked into the St. Louis County Jail on probable cause drug charges. Raymond Valentino Bowser, 35, of Chicago, Illinois. Denzel Lavon Hale, 29, of Duluth. During one of three search warrants also executed in Duluth during last n...
An early morning water emergency Saturday left a man dead in the Saint Louis River in Scanlon, according to a press release from the Cloquet Police Department. At approximately 1:30 a.m. Saturday morning, Nov. 23, officers were clearing a call at a local bar and were notified of the sound of someone calling for help. Officers discovered a person had fallen through the ice on the Saint Louis River, south of Minnesota Highway 61 in Scanlon. Emergency personnel attempted to reach the victim using a nearby boat, rope lines and throw rings, but were...
When Neil and Theresa Erickson bought Carlton's Woodland Grocery back in 2013, it was already like an old familiar friend. Theresa had found her first job at the store, which was then owned by her uncle, Richard Meger. She had worked there, off and on, since 1995. Neil grew up on a family farm in the Wrenshall area and knew the store at 500 Third Street in Carlton, including its excellent meat department. He met Theresa in 2000. They got married and started a family. Theresa had the store in...
The thin blue line is looking even thinner right now in Cloquet, as the police department faces staffing challenges caused by retirements, departures and officers who are on leave but still with the department. At full strength, the Cloquet Police department is budgeted for a total of 24 licensed full-time police officers, detectives and command staff. They are currently down to 16 working officers, and only one (of three) working command staff. "We have seven that are either gone or on leave,...
Cloquet and Fond du Lac resident James Arthur Couture died after being shot early Saturday morning in what appeared to be a shooting by an acquaintance. According to a press release by the St. Louis County Sheriff's Office, law enforcement were called to an address on Brevator Road at approximately 5 a.m. Saturday. Deputies and Fond du Lac police officers responded and found Couture, age 65, deceased at the scene, by a gunshot wound. Three other adults were present at the scene and all were...
