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An Esko area woman and boy were injured in a car/train collision today. According to a press release from the Carlton County Sheriff's Office, at 1:30 PM Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019, Carlton County Dispatch received a report of a Car/Train accident on E Stark Rd in Thomson Township. Emergency Medical Services from the Esko Fire Department and Cloquet Area Fire District responded to the scene. The patients are identified as a 41-year-old female and 10-year-old male from Thomson Township. They were transported to St Luke’s Hospital in Duluth by C...
Five Minnesotans are among nine people from three states whose E. coli O157:H7 infections have been linked primarily to Fresh Express Sunflower Crisp Chopped Salad Kits. State and national health officials are warning consumers to not eat the salad mix and if they have it in their refrigerators, to throw it out. The advice to consumers, restaurants and retailers is to not eat, serve or sell Fresh Express Sunflower Crisp Chopped Salad Kits with an identifying code of UPC 0 71279 30906 4, beginning with lot code Z, and a best-before date up to...
As proposed 2020 tax statements arrived in mailboxes this week, some Carlton County residents were shocked to find out just how much their property tax bill is likely to increase next year. Thanks to a triple whammy of decreasing utility company valuations, increasing local taxes and higher assessed values for most residential properties, some homeowners could see their taxes payable in 2020 increase by as much as 30 percent. Residents of Perch Lake, Silver Brook, Twin Lakes and Sawyer...
Winter weather: check Christmas lights: check Big guy in a red hat: check Even though the big guy is a voyageur statue rather than a resident of the North Pole bearing gifts, never fear — Santa is coming home for the holidays. This year’s Santa’s Home for the Holidays festivities in Cloquet begin Wednesday with Elf Bingo for kids and a free chili feed at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church 4:30 to 7 p.m. On Thursday, kids are invited to enjoy Storytime with Santa 10:15 to 11:15 a.m. at the Dunlap Island shelter. Later in the day, head to the Holid...
Despite the best efforts of local law enforcement and emergency personnel, a man drowned early Saturday morning after falling through the ice on the St. Louis River in Scanlon. At approximately 1:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, local law enforcement officials had wrapped up a call to break up a large fight at the River Inn Bar & Grill, when two Cloquet police officers who were talking through the open windows of their squad cars heard a person yelling from the direction of the river. After...
The Golden Gate motel in Scanlon was demolished last week. The property was purchased by Kwik Trip this past summer so it can make room at the neighboring convenience store for expanded parking, a car wash and new liquor store. The Kwik Spirits store, formeraly Gramma Polo's, will also be torn down. A car wash will take its place. The purchase of the motel property also allows Kwik Trip better access to Carlton County Highway 61. The Golden Gate Inn closed in May under a cloud of complaints...
Seeing the northern lights pulse and dance across the sky is a highlight of living in northern Minnesota. Some of us grew up with this amazing phenomena. For others, it is a lifetime dream to someday witness the aurora borealis. "I grew up in Chicago, where I thought nothing about the night sky. When I first heard about the aurora (borealis) as a young person, I was amazed," Carla Goldschmidt said. In 2000, Goldschmidt moved to Carlton County, when her husband was called to minister. On a fall...
Two pieces of great news came out of Monday’s Cloquet school board meeting: 1.The school district tax levy will increase by less than half a percent; 2.The district is part of a consortium of mostly Carlton County school districts that was awarded a $1.5 million grant ($750,000 each year for the next two years) to expand and explore the career and technical education programs in the area. Other school districts in the group include Barnum, Carlton, Cromwell-Wright, Esko, McGregor, Moose Lake, Willow River and Wrenshall. All of the districts a...
A jury trial is set to begin in January for a man accused in the shooting death of his uncle in 2018. James Francis Montano, 33, of Bayfield County, was arrested in April 2018 in Carlton County for shooting his uncle, 57-year-old Andrew James Gokee, and injuring Gokee’s son, 38-year-old Hudson Gauthier, Montano’s cousin. The Bayfield man faces charges of first-degree premeditated murder, attempted premeditated first-degree murder, two counts of second-degree murder and assault in the second degree. According to the criminal complaint: Car...
Carlton County got some “not catastrophic” news regarding how much the county and other taxing authorities within it will need to repay utility companies for overcharging in tax assessments as various utility lawsuits make their way through Minnesota Tax Court. Earlier this month, the Tax Court raised its previous May 2018 valuation of the Enbridge oil pipeline corridor for assessments in 2012, 2013 and 2014. Instead of the previous valuation of $3.42 billion, the court now set the value of the Enbridge pipeline system at $4.73 billion. The...
Gratitude can be a funny thing; it's often the case that when you have less of something, you tend to be thankful for it more than when you have it in abundance. Take light, for instance. This time of year we have a lot less of the stuff compared to summertime. By the winter solstice (December 21) we'll have eight and a half hours of daylight versus the almost 16 hours of daylight we get at the end of June. I think the increasing darkness is one of the reasons holiday lighting gives me such...
Little Ariahlyn Goodin, daughter of Luc and Suzy Goodin, will be baptized on Sunday, Dec. 1 at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church at their 9 a.m. service. Please join the family in this special ceremony. Our sympathy goes out to the family of Harold Arthur Maki, 82, of Cromwell who passed away Nov. 20 at St. Luke’s Hospital in Duluth. He had been a resident of Cardinal Court in Cromwell. Harold was raised in Kalevala Township and attended grade school there prior to graduating from Cromwell High Scho...
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...
