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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...
These are hard times for the Brookston area. A young man who grew up there, age 16, was shot and killed in Duluth earlier this month. A young mother of five was found dead after going missing last week, and a 15-year-old boy died of unknown causes Friday. Bryan "Bear" Bosto, who manages the Brookston Community Center, said the community is mourning the losses. He hopes people will come together, and seek help from the grief counselors available at the community center. "There were three tragic...
New Sixth District Judge Rebekka L. Strumme was sworn in by Judge Mark Munger, whose retirement led to her appointment by Gov. Tim Walz and the investiture ceremony in the Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College commons Friday, May 31. She is joined by her husband, Nate, and daughters, Ellie and Lilly. Judge Strumme will be chambered in Carlton County along with Judge Robert Macaulay. She replaces Judge Leslie Beiers, who is transferring from Carlton County to the St. Louis County Courthouse...
"Listening Point tells of what I have seen and heard on a bare glaciated spit of rock in the Quetico-Superior country... From it I have seen the immensity of space and glimpsed at times the grandeur of creation. There I have sensed the span of uncounted centuries and looked down the path all life has come. I have explored on this rocky bit of shore the great concept that nothing stands alone and everything, no matter how small, is part of a greater whole." Hello. I am Pastor Charles (CJ) Boettch...
A Cloquet man was sentenced to 86 months in prison Friday, after pleading guilty to shaking, squeezing and dropping his infant daughter, then 12 weeks old, when he “snapped” in a moment of mental weakness. The sentence equates to seven years and two months in custody. Orion Harrison Sinclair Verbist, 25, pleaded guilty in Sixth District Carlton County Court to felony assault in the first degree in April, and asked to be sent to prison as soon as possible. He was back from St. Cloud Cor...
Cloquet city administrator Aaron Reeves said the Minnesota Legislature and Gov. Tim Walz approved changes to the city’s existing half-cent sales tax legislation. The changes will allow the city to tap into funds that were originally earmarked for infrastructure for commercial development at Highway 33 and Interstate 35 that simply isn’t going to happen. Reeves said the city has already lined up about $4 million in projects for the newly available sales tax dollars, and the council would need to allocate another $1.5-$1.8 million, or it cou...
After discussion during Tuesday's meeting, Cloquet city councilors and Mayor Roger Maki voted unanimously to hold a special election to replace Ward 3 city councilor Dakota Koski, who purchased and is moving to a home in Ward 5. Koski said he regrets having to step down, but ultimately chose a home for life over a four-year council term. Although city administrator Aaron Reeves recommended the council appoint someone and hold a special election at the same time as the November 2020 election to...
Cloquet City Hall will be closed June 13-14 so employees can move into the new location at 101 14th St. (previously the Members Cooperative Credit Union building). The Cloquet police department will be sharing the new location with City Hall. Current phone numbers for both City Hall and the police department will remain the same. City Hall will be open for business on Monday, June 17 at its new location. Call Cloquet City Hall at 218-879-3347 with any questions or concerns....
An Esko man is dead following a hit-and-run accident in Duluth May 28. Stanley Brown, 30, of Duluth, was charged in Duluth Sixth District Court Friday, May 31 with criminal vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a collision, as well as fifth-degree possession of a controlled substance and second-degree refusal to submit to a chemical test. According to the criminal complaint, Peter J. Seppanen was riding a motorcycle when he was struck by a red Jeep that crossed the centerline into his lane of traffic on 40th Avenue West. The Jeep driver,...
A Red Wing man was arrested May 29 in Carlton, following a traffic stop and after multiple law enforcement agencies received information that he was in possession of a large amount of drugs. Steven Allen Lindquist, 28, was charged in Carlton County Sixth District Court with first-degree drug possession and first-degree intent to sell drugs Friday, May 31. According to the criminal complaint, after getting a search warrant for the vehicle officers found a green duffel bag containing letters...
Citing a failure to address the potential effects of an oil spill in the Lake Superior watershed, the Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday reversed a state decision on the adequacy of the final environmental impact statement on a new Line 3 oil pipeline. The court ruled that the Public Utilities Commission erred in accepting the final environmental study for the Enbridge Energy line that cuts across the northeast corner of Carlton County on its way to terminals in Superior. The statement will no...
The Cloquet Police Department is still seeking information regarding alleged shots fired from one vehicle at another last Thursday night. According to a press release, around 9:30 p.m. Thursday, May 30, officers responded to the Fond du Lac Gas & Grocery Store for a report of a person who had been shot inside an SUV. When they arrived, officers learned the juvenile victim was a passenger in the vehicle traveling south on Brevator Road when another car approached and fired something at them,...
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...
