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As a result of making close to $600,000 in cuts this past year and better than expected state aid, the Cloquet school board got some good news Monday following its annual audit. Instead of ending the 2018 fiscal year $800,000 in the hole, the district instead had an overage of $450 in its general fund. Including restricted funds such as transportation and facilities maintenance, however, the district actually ended the year with a $448,617 increase to its fund balance. Most of the increase was...
Ward 3 Cloquet Council Candidate profile: Uriah Wilkinson PKN: Briefly summarize your personal background and qualifications. Wilkinson: I have been a resident of Cloquet (with my five children) for 25-plus years, and have been working in the real estate industry for the past 15. I have served on the Cloquet Planning Commission for going on eight years as well as task forces including housing, transportation and zoning. PKN: What made you decide to run for Cloquet City Council? Wilkinson: This...
Ward 3 Cloquet Council Candidate profile: Ray Schow PKN: Briefly summarize your personal background and qualifications. Schow: I have held jobs in almost all sectors of the job market, from janitor to stockbroker, from call center supervisor to golf course manager, but I am best known as a teacher which I started at 22 and still sub to this day. PKN: What made you decide to run for Cloquet City Council? Schow: I decided first to apply for, and then to run for city council because I have been ver...
Ward 3 Cloquet Council Candidate profile: Chris Swanson PKN: Briefly summarize your personal background and qualifications. Swanson: I grew up and lived in this area of Cloquet most of my life. I've taught government classes at CHS since 2001. As a parent, resident and community member, I appreciate the importance of remaining level-headed under pressure, responsive to my fellow residents, and conscious of the public's trust. PKN: What made you decide to run for Cloquet City Council? Swanson:...
The Carlton County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Monday to pursue Minnesota Legislative approval for the ability to levy a half-percent sales tax, contingent on local voter approval, to build a new Carlton County Jail. The Minnesota Legislature has decided to give authority to only levy the sales tax on the condition that the project serves a regional need. County Coordinator Dennis Genereau explained that a female offender program located at the new jail but available for the incarcerated females of NE Minnesota would fulfill this...
Cloquet library to host groundbreaking ceremonyThe Cloquet Public Library will hold a ceremonial groundbreaking for the new $2.14 million addition at 320 14th Street at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8. There will be a program with speakers starting at 3:30 p.m. and refreshments and additional information inside to follow. This is the people’s library and everyone is invited, said Larry Anderson, library foundation treasurer and the person spearheading the capital campaign to raise money to furnish the new library and create a new central c...
Three candidates — Uriah Wilkinson, Ray Schow and Chris Swanson — are running for the Ward 3 Cloquet city council seat vacated by Dakota Koski in July when he moved out of his ward. The special primary election for Cloquet Ward 3 councilor is Tuesday, Nov. 5. The voting location for Ward 3 residents remains at the former Cloquet City Hall location, 1307 Cloquet Ave. The polls will be open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Following Tuesday’s primary, two of the three candidates will advance to the Ward 3 Special General Election, on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. Abse...
Chris Swanson and Uriah Wilkinson advance to the general election on Feb. 11 for the Ward 3 Cloquet City Council seat. Not too many voters turned out for the primary election in Cloquet today, where the Ward 3 special election was the sole race on the ballot. Totals for the Ward 3 Special Primary are below: Chris Swanson - 124 Uriah Wilkinson - 54 Ray Schow - 7 The council will certify the totals at its meeting Thursday, Nov. 7. Ward 3 lies between Highway 33 and 14th Street, and Doddridge...
The man allegedly responsible for the shooting Friday that shut down many of the buildings at the heart of the Fond du Lac Reservation was charged in Sixth District Carlton County Court Monday. Shelby Gene Boswell, 28, of Hugo, Minnesota is accused of shooting and injuring another man, 45-year-old Broderick Boshay Robinson of Minneapolis, in the back of the head at a funeral Friday in the Head Start gymnasium. Boswell faces charges of both first- and second-degree assault, being a felon in...
Not many nonprofit organizations would boast about making people pee their pants. Then again, the folks at the Haunted Shack are not your typical community volunteers - they're in the business of scaring people. If someone gets so frightened they lose control of their bladder, well, consider it mission accomplished. But they're not monsters (although they may look that way with their makeup and costumes on). "I do enjoy scaring people," said volunteer Jeremy Dixon, who lurks in the corn maze....
In a bit of fortuitous timing, the Fond du Lac Head Start building got the gift of communal art right after it was the center of a dramatic shooting incident last week. Artist Karen Savage-Blue had been painting the mural on parachute cloth in her studio on Big Lake for three months. She'd been working to get a grant (from the McKnight Foundation) and approval from the Fond du Lac tribal council for months before that. Looking at the weather forecast, she knew the mural needed to go up this...
Bankruptcy Judge Robert Kressel of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District Court of Minnesota approved a $39.2 million agreement between victims-survivors of clergy sexual abuse and the Diocese of Duluth earlier this week. The decision gives final approval to a joint agreement reached earlier this year between the diocese and attorneys representing survivors and victims of clergy sexual abuse. It marks the end of a nearly four-year bankruptcy process for the Duluth Diocese and will settle claims against the diocese and against 30 parishes....
Yard waste and brush is accepted at the Cloquet Public Works Garage, 410 Armory Road, between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Yard waste includes leaves, grass and pine needles. Brush will be accepted and will be limited to a maximum of one pickup load per Cloquet residence. Brush should be no larger than 3-inches in diameter. No other trash, household waste, appliances, scrap metal or wood will be accepted. These may be disposed of at the Carlton County Transfer Station located on Highway 210 during normal operating...
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College is hosting a Campus Visit Day 1-3 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29 at the Cloquet campus location. The campus-wide event is open to everyone and there is no cost to attend. Prospective students who are interested in attending FDLTCC are especially encouraged to stop by. Visitors will have the opportunity to meet staff and faculty, participate in hands-on learning demonstrations, tour the campus, learn about financial aid, and apply for admission. For more information about the Campus Visit Day, contact Josh...
As mandated by the Clean Water Act and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the city of Cloquet has developed a Stormwater Pollution Prevention Program. The SWPPP, a document unique to Cloquet, is a required piece of the Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System permit necessary to own and operate a storm sewer system. The purpose of the SWPPP is to prevent pollution of our state’s rivers, lakes and streams. An important part of this goal is public education. In order to help achieve this objective the city will be accepting public comments r...
Residents of Cloquet’s Ward 3 will vote Tuesday, Nov. 5 at the old City Hall. (Future Ward 3 elections will be held at the new hall, so this is the last election at old City Hall.) This is a primary election, as three people are running to replace former councilor Dakota Koski, who resigned when he moved elsewhere in the city. The City Council appointed Chris Swanson to the seat, pending the election. The Nov. 5 primary election will reduce the number of candidates to two, with the Ward 3 special general election set for Feb. 11, 2020. Ward 3...
Jules Massenet’s “Cendrillon” or, as we now know it, “Cinderella,” first debuted at the National Theater of the Opéra Comique in Paris in 1899. On Monday, it was performed in the Wrenshall School commons for a raucous crowd of grade-schoolers by Little Opera of the North, presented by Lyric Opera of the North’s Little Loon program. “This was totally different from the movie,” exclaimed one awestruck student after the performance. “There was real magic … and the prince actually sang in thi...
In 2017, the Cloquet Public Library received a Rural Gateways grant for STEM programming in Cloquet and surrounding areas. The $3,500 National Science Foundation grant from the Califa Library Group will provide science-based programs for adults. While STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) are popular topics for children’s education, they are rarely mentioned in adult programming. The programs funded by the grant are essentially “book club meets science café.” Partic...
Last Saturday morning marked the fourth time in five years that the Borske family — mom Samantha, daughters Dallas, Makayla and Alexis — and their friends and family made their way to Carlton for the annual Suicide Awareness Memorial Walk. It’s a short walk, but a long journey for nearly everyone there. They come together each fall at Carlton High School in memory of loved ones who have died by suicide. Nearly 200 people participated in this year’s walk around downtown Carlton, which was col...
A shooting during a funeral in the Fond du Lac reservation community center gymnasium today left one victim with a gunshot wound to the head and the suspect in custody. Immediately after the shooting was reported at approximately 9:46 a.m. Friday, Oct. 18, the entire tribal campus was placed in lockdown for at least two hours. Interim Cloquet police chief Derek Randall said initial reports indicate that other people at the funeral "grabbed the suspect" and held him until law enforcement arrived...
Cloquet school district officials want you. Or rather, they want your opinion and input on a new strategic plan for the school district, in exchange for a light dinner and the promise of continuing to educate our young people. Superintendent Michael Cary said the district will be working with community members in a strategic planning session Monday, Nov. 4, with a light dinner scheduled for 5 p.m. and the planning session for 6 p.m. in the Cloquet High School cafeteria. Free childcare is available. All dinner attendees must RSVP by Oct. 28 to...
Tuesday’s Cloquet City Council meeting marked the move of the “public comment” portion to the beginning — rather than the end — of the meeting. The council changed the process to allow public input on issues before voting, rather than after. The city installed a digital timer to keep comments under 3 minutes, and some rules about the mayor’s authority to limit comments, if necessary, were read. The new system did not get a trial, though, as no citizens were present to make comments at the meeting. The city got good news on the search for...
The Cloquet City Council heard a presentation on a proposed ordinance on tobacco sales from the Carlton County Public Health and Human Services Department at its Oct. 15 work session. “Tobacco 21” is an initiative backed by the health department to reduce tobacco use — including smokeless options such as vaping — by restricting sales of the products to those under 21 years old. “So far, 36 cities statewide, and eight counties, have passed ‘Tobacco 21’ ordinances in Minnesota,” said Alli Mueller, who made the presentation with Meghann Levitt,...
During another busy day in the clinic, as I see an elderly patient in a wheelchair who is accompanied by family member or members, I am reminded at how lucky the patient is. It is estimated that 80 percent of the adults who require some level of care live at home. Unpaid family members provide 90 percent of that care. This means that the majority of the care of the elderly is falling on the shoulders of family members. A caregiver is defined as a family member or friend who is providing unpaid...
Medicare open enrollment began Tuesday and runs through Dec. 7. With it comes the opportunity for beneficiaries to make changes to their Medicare Advantage and Part D plans, if they choose to. The Minnesota Board on Aging’s Senior LinkAge Line can help Minnesotans on Medicare navigate changes and ensure they have a plan Jan. 1 that meets their needs. Each year brings changes to Medicare rules and regulations and to the plans themselves. This year’s most notable change is the revamping of Medicare’s Plan Finder tool, which people use to enroll i...
