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The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is stepping into the legal battle surrounding the proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine. According to a press release from the Fond du Lac Reservation Business Committee, on Sept. 10, the Band filed a lawsuit in Minnesota federal district court against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The lawsuit is significant to the Band because the proposed mine will be located in the Ceded Territory where the Fond du Lac Band retains treaty rights to hunt, fish...
After a teenage girl disappeared from the Carlton County Youth Shelter last week with her baby and the teen’s 3-year-old sister, police issued a missing children alert — and removed the alert five hours later when the children were found. The escapade came with some major consequences as the teen is now facing criminal charges for taking her sister, herself and her 18-month-old baby out of county custody. Sadie Slides Off, 17, was charged in Sixth District Carlton County Court Sept. 13 for “de...
The 13th annual Karl Kalli Memorial Golf Tournament generated $9,122 for the Cromwell-Wright athletic department, which was evenly distributed to the eight athletic teams at school. The tournament takes place the first Saturday in August every year, so next year join in the fun. Just call Linda Kalli at 218-878-7876 for more info and thanks to everyone who supported this event. Our sympathy to the family of Irene Olson who died on Sept. 5. Her memorial service was held at Bethlehem Lutheran in W...
Community Memorial Hospital and Raiter Clinic will will join together as one organization as of Jan. 1, 2020. Negotiations leading up to this partnership have been ongoing for many months, according to a press release from the hospital. Through these talks it became clear that the combination of Raiter Clinic family physicians and Community Memorial Hospital’s family physicians and specialists would greatly strengthen healthcare in our community, and ensure patients are able to continue r...
Del Prevost was looking sharp in his colorful jacket, tie, and creased slacks, but when he stepped to the pulpit at the end of Mass at the rededication of the Sawyer Log Church at Saints Mary and Joseph in Sawyer on Sunday, Sept. 8, a gentle chuckle wafted through the worshippers crowded in the small wooden pews. Apparently, no one was expecting the retired lawyer and former president of Members Cooperative Credit Union to deliver his words with such enthusiasm and energy. It was a fitting end...
There will be a flurry of meetings in the next two months as school boards in Wrenshall and Carlton continue to explore a consolidation of the districts. After joint meetings this summer with the full boards, members are moving in the direction of a single district with buildings in Carlton and Wrenshall, known as the two-site option. This week, committees from both boards met to discuss needs at the current schools should the school populations be merged. There are several state mandates that are pushing the boards along in the complicated...
The Carlton County Extension Office has made some procedural and management changes following an investigation last year conducted by the Aitkin County Sheriff’s Office. Allegations regarding a former Carlton County employee were “exceptionally cleared” following the investigation, in large part because the alleged wrongdoings were either not covered by county policy or impossible to prove beyond reasonable doubt. Information for this story was taken from an unapproved draft of an investigative report by Aitkin County investigator Steve Cook, a...
The secret is out: Washington Elementary School is a Minnesota School of Excellence. Of course, the students and staff already knew Washington is an excellent school ... but now that inside knowledge has been validated by the Minnesota Elementary School Principals' Association (MESPA), which recognized eight elementary schools in the entire state as 2019-20 Minnesota Schools of Excellence. Principal Robbi Mondati said the message sent by the designation is important. "I think it says that we're...
After being acquired by national retailer Camping World in March, it seemed to be business as usual at the Coates RV showroom in Scanlon. Not anymore. Although it is still filled with all kinds of RVs, campers and fish houses, the Scanlon staff (and soon its inventory) have moved to the Hermantown Gander Outdoors and RV store, which are also owned by Camping World. Sales associate Matt Juntunen said it's more like Coates RV took over Hermantown Gander store. "We're selling there; it's our...
For more than a year, the Carlton County board of commissioners have heard concerns of the rising use of vaping e-cigarettes and the negative influences on the county’s youth. Earlier this summer the board instructed the county attorney to draw up a proposed ordinance to regulate purchases of any tobacco product by anyone under the age of 21. At the Committee of the Whole meeting on Sept. 3, board members heard a presentation on the proposed ordinance. Little comment was made during this first draft. No hearings or a recommendation for c...
Moose Lake police chief Bryce Bogenholm is currently on paid administrative leave. City administrator Tim Peterson said there’s no investigation going on, but he couldn’t share any other details about the leave. Peterson doesn’t have any date for Bogenholm’s return for work. Sergeant Mike McNulty is interim police chief during Bogenholm’s absence. There are four full-time officers and the full-time chief in the department, Peterson said. According to the Moose Lake Star-Gazette, Bogenholm has been chief of police in Moose Lake since May of 20...
Carlton County schools has lost at least one principal to Duluth this fall, and moved one in from neighboring Pine County. In Carlton, the school board held a special meeting Friday, Sept. 6 to approve the resignation of secondary school principal Barry Fischer, who had been with the school district just over a year. After six years there, Barnum High School principal Brian Kazmierczak resigned as principal and girls basketball coach to become the new Lincoln Park Middle School principal in...
The first day of school brought an extra adventure for Cloquet Middle School students who walked to and from school Wednesday after Washington Avenue got a complete redo this summer. Stop signs were replaced by flashing lights that were difficult to see in the bright afternoon sun Wednesday, so it is a good thing crossing guard Denise Risberg will be there before and after school with her orange flag. Risberg was showing kids how to push the button to turn on the caution lights. Drivers still...
Last month, I mentioned how I inherited weather almanacs from the 1920s to the 1990s from a farmer who had passed away. Well, I also have a stack of National Geographic issues from the 1910s to the 1980s. One from 1913 had a long article about a game camera a fellow invented. The critter would trip a line that fired off a tray of that old fashioned flash powder used for old-time photography. The result was a photo of an animal running away from the bang of the exploding powder which could be...
The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa flag now flies in the Cloquet city council chambers, a reminder to those who do business there that the borders of the Fond du Lac Reservation and Cloquet overlap and the two entities cannot thrive separately. Charlie Smith, or "Nenaaw" in Anishinaabe, offered tobacco to everyone in the room, as well as to the drum itself, after the Cedar Creek drum group finished two songs and the flag was placed behind the council dais. They presented the flag so...
Cloquet native Dennis Lennartson, has joined the staff of Community Memorial Hospital as senior vice president of hospital and clinical services. Lennartson served as an Air Force Medic in Duluth's 148th Fighter Wing after graduating from Cloquet High School and then received undergraduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Superior in business administration and accounting. He also holds a master's degree in business administration and a master's in administration, both earned at the...
Longtime Cloquet Sappi mill manager Mike Schultz is leaving town after being promoted to vice president of manufacturing for Sappi North America. The promotion means Schultz will relocate to Boston, but will still have a hand in how things are run in Cloquet, overseeing manufacturing operations at the company's four North American mills (including Cloquet), a sheeting facility in Pennsylvania and the Westbrook Technology Center in Maine. The announcement followed the appointment of Mike Haws,...
The Thomson Township comprehensive plan committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. at Thomson Township Hall on Tuesday, Sept. 10 to review several draft plan materials and discuss upcoming public engagement activities. The plan steering committee meeting is open to the public, but public comments will not be entertained during the meeting. A public draft plan open house will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 9 at 6 p.m., with a presentation starting at 6:30 p.m. For more information on the plan, to provide comments, and to take the plan survey, please go to...
A Sawyer man was arrested following a stabbing in Cloquet this weekend. George Robert LaPrairie, 19, was charged in Sixth District Carlton County Court Wednesday with first- and second-degree assault. According to the criminal complaint: Cloquet police officers were called to Community Memorial Hospital Saturday, Aug. 31, where a man with multiple stab wounds to his lower stomach, back and arm was being treated. The 21-year-old man claimed he was "jumped" and ultimately stabbed by LaPrairie in...
It's been a long time coming, but The Old Log Church at Saints Mary and Joseph Catholic Church in Sawyer is fully restored and open for business. In this case, the business will be the celebration of Mass and the blessing of the Old Log Church by Bishop Paul Sirba at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 8. Parishioners and others are invited to attend the service; those who can't fit inside the Old Log Church can watch from a television screen in the larger brick church next door. The Old Log Church was...
Join Washington Elementary School Friday, Sept. 6 for the school’s sixth annual Light Up the Night 1K and 5K races. The 1K starts at 7:30 p.m. at the school, with the 5K to follow. There will be prizes for most illuminated, best neon, and best team costume. Cost to register for the 5K is $25 for adults and teenagers, and $20 for kids ages 12 and younger; and $15 for all ages for the 1K race....
The speed limit changed this week along Highway 73 in Carlton County, thanks to actions in 2014, when the Minnesota Legislature directed the Department of Transportation to evaluate its two-lane, two-way, 55-mph highways to determine whether speed limits could be reasonably and safely increased. Speed limits on Highway 73 will increase from 55 mph to 60 mph: • between Kettle River and milepost 18 (south of the curves prior to Carlton Highway 4) • between Cromwell and U.S. Highway 2 • between Floodwood and Highway 169 in Hibbing The speed limit...
There's a new, highly exclusive clothes store in town, but it caters only to Cloquet teenagers. Oh, and did we mention that the clothes are all free? The new CHS Community Closet was born out of a discussion between Cloquet High School paraprofessional Shelley Robideaux and physical education teacher Brenda Gigliotti. "Last year before Christmas we put together something almost like a garage sale, but everything was free," Robideaux said, explaining that teachers, staff and others donated...
Fall is the time to harvest the garden, start getting property ready for winter, send children back to school, and go back to regular meeting schedules. Regular schedules of the local Finnish groups will not be the focus of this article, however, so you will have to contact those groups as to what is on their September schedules. Here are some fantastic opportunities that are coming. I plan to attend a good share of them, and I encourage you to mark your calendars and make plans to attend, too. A great way to start your fall is by attending...
It used to be called just "shop" or, in the '90s, at least in my son's school, "tech." But now, K-12 educators are according industrial arts its prominence as an academic subject, preparing teens for good-paying, skilled industrial jobs. This past Friday, Cromwell-Wright High School christened its new industrial arts building with a ribbon cutting by school board members and a tour by superintendent and principal Nathan Libbon. It's been quite a journey. Some years back, voters in our area...
