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A Wrenshall resident who worked as a social worker for St. Louis County has been accused of rape and sexual abuse of a woman who was his client. Licensed social worker Michael Bryant, 46, was charged July 15 with third-degree criminal sexual conduct by a psychotherapist both during and outside of session; both charges are felonies. According to the criminal complaint, in February Duluth police received a report of ongoing sexual abuse of a vulnerable adult by her social worker, Bryant, who was supposed to provide ongoing counseling services as...
Another CSA hits county Tilling up hayfields, enriching soil, building a greenhouse and capturing rainwater off its roof, erecting a tiny house to live in, planting, weeding, harvesting and selling dozens of varieties of vegetables, and engaging community members in farm work. That's how Heather-Marie Bloom, and now her partner, University of Minnesota Duluth journalism professor John Hatcher, farm on the west side of Prairie Lake. Bloom's parents cultivated flowers and some vegetables in their...
The Cloquet Carlton County Airport received a $1.282 million Airport Improvement Program grant from the Federal Aviation Administration earlier this month, and the Carlton County board of commissioners signed off on the grant this week. Airport manager Quinten Anderson said once it's done, the airport will have two "like new" runways. The FAA grant will pay for rehabilitating runway 7/25 at the facility at 125 Wheaton Road on the west side of Cloquet, following the completion of runway 18/36...
Patty Phillips was recently elected to the Marshall H. and Nellie Alworth Memorial Foundation board. Phillips graduated from Martin Hughes High School in Buhl and went on to earn an associate of arts degree with high distinction from Hibbing Community College, followed by both a bachelor’s of science in elementary education and a master’s degree in education from the University of Minnesota Duluth. She has spent her life educating children and youth. Phillips has a track record of collaboration and success attaining academic, cultural and fin...
Cloquet City Administrator Aaron Reeves is resigning to take a job in Hudson, Wis., Cloquet Mayor Roger Maki confirmed Friday. Reeves was also due to have finalist interviews for a city administrator job in Hastings, Minn. July 26-27. Reeves is leaving after less than two years in Cloquet; he started in October 2017. Prior to that, he worked for the city of Rochester for nearly four years as assistant city administrator and city clerk/ development coordinator. He has also served as city...
Meeting for the first time in their new chambers at the new City Hall, Cloquet City Council members voted unanimously Tuesday to appoint Chris Swanson as interim representative for Ward 3. Swanson will be sworn in at the next council meeting Aug. 7 and will serve until voters determine who will take over Dakota Koski's seat for the remaining three years of his term, as Koski moved out his ward earlier this month. Swanson was one of four Ward 3 residents to apply for the position. The other...
Seven-year-old Bella Richards and her grandmother, Jean Vatnsdal of Cloquet, have enjoyed summer nature walks since Bella's fourth birthday. Throughout the summer, they explore the outside elements together, watching the flowers bloom and witnessing the buds grow on the trees. Once or twice a week they do something special. Armed with garbage bags and latex gloves, they challenge pollution by collecting garbage along the tree lines and boulevard strips. On their cleanup walks, they find...
Community Memorial Hospital’s advanced wound clinic in Cloquet has received the 2018 Center of Distinction award from Healogics, the nation’s largest wound care provider. The clinic is for individuals with wounds that have not responded to traditional therapies. To receive the Center of Distinction recognition the clinic was required to meet or exceed the following criteria: 92 percent patient satisfaction, 92 percent healing rate; less than a 16-percent outlier rate (wounds that haven’t healed in 14 weeks); and achieve a median days-...
A closed session to consider allegations against a city employee was canceled Tuesday after CAT-7 coordinator Eric Lipponen, mayor Roger Maki and the city’s human resources director James Barclay disappeared down a back hallway for a few minutes prior to the formal Cloquet City Council meeting. Lipponen confirmed afterward that he had been the subject of the proposed closed meeting, and that the three men and Lipponen’s wife, Becca Lindberg, had arranged for a meeting Thursday to discuss a numbe...
The Carlton County farmers market is going strong in both locations now: Tuesdays 4-6 p.m. in Carlton at the Four Seasons Center, and Saturdays 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. in Cloquet in the Premiere Theatres parking lot. New produce is showing up each week: carrots, beets, broccoli, cucumbers and snap peas should be available this month, as well as salad mixes and microgreens. Garlic scapes, which are the flower stalk of the garlic plant and taste like mild garlic, are available now, so get them while...
A cold winter rolling into spring is not typically an ideal growing season for berries, but local farmer Jason Amundson saw potential in the cold Minnesotan weather. Happily, Minnesota has the same growing climate as Siberia. Farm LoLa in Wrenshall is welcoming new produce to its soil. Siberian honeyberries are similar to blueberries: They have the same faded blue color but are shaped like deflated footballs. Jason describes them as "a blueberry mixed with a Sweetarts (candy)." These oddly...
Our region is flush with great food. From the Fond du Lac Band's indigenous gardeners, to Mahtowa beekeepers, Wrenshall sustainable farmers, Carlton shiitake mushroom growers, Esko picklers, Moose Lake brewers, and Cromwell orchardists - the "grow, shop and eat local region" is prospering here. Meet our food lovers and enjoy the favorite dishes they actually cook and eat at home. Ram Reizel has been involved with beekeeping and honey since he was a little boy living on the Yad Mordechai Kibbutz...
"Come on, Betsy, let's go!" This was the enthusiastic cheer of my 4-year-old last Friday as we set off with his grandma and 50 other area residents on a coach bus tour of the Nemadji Watershed. Organized by Carlton Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) water resources technician Melanie Bomier, the tour was a kickoff to the development of a master plan for the Nemadji watershed. Dubbed "Nemadji One Watershed," this planning initiative is designed to provide a comprehensive vision for the...
ROI: Return on Investment. For those who don’t know, this simply means what you get (return) for what you give (invest). And as a taxpayer, you have the right and responsibility to ask about the returns (services given) for your investments (taxes). Every year, the Carlton Soil and Water Conservation District SWCD publishes an annual report that tells taxpayers and Carlton County landowners what their ROI is for the federal, state, and local public funds that support SWCD programs, projects a...
I would say my number is about 20 this year. That is the number of ticks which I have taken off my legs, socks and pants this year. I love to be outside, either running or walking my dogs but there is a downside. The ticks are around and they are hungry. After every trip out into the woods or fields, it is time for a tick check. Tickborne disease are mostly diagnosed in the summer months of June, July and August. There has been a rise in diseases, based on data collected by the Centers for...
Fifty years ago was a monumental time in American history. On July 20, 1969, our country made President John F. Kennedy's 1961 proclamation - to put a man on the moon and return him safely, by the end of the decade - a reality. As part of its "Space Week" and in honor of the 50th anniversary of the moon walk, the Cloquet Public Library hosted John Cavanaugh Monday evening. It was the anniversary of the Apollo 11 crew lifting off and making history five days later. Cavanaugh is an amateur...
There was history. There was agreement. There were dull-as-unbuttered-toast moments. And, like a main event, the moment everyone had been waiting for - direct opinions from each school board member on the future of the Wrenshall and Carlton districts. While there likely never has never been a joint meeting between the full boards before, it doesn't mean the two districts are on solid footing when it comes to consolidation, a notion that has fallen on the two small districts for decades. The...
Pollution and homelessness, two significant issues facing the country and our county, have sparked creative and innovative solutions. One group in Carlton seeks to address both issues with its 100-percent-recycled plastic sleeping mats. Every Tuesday, a group of half a dozen people gather at 9 a.m. to cut, tie, and crochet plastic bags into durable sleeping mats for the homeless population living throughout Carlton County. Maureen Singleton, the group's founder, was a member of a similar group...
Farmers drove their tractors and brought gas cans to the Wrenshall General Store Friday - excited about the opportunity to fill up with the new premium diesel on tap. Store owner Jeff Bloom said he's had people asking him to offer the fuel for some time, and he got the new tank operating the last week in June. The giant tank just south of the store offers both on- and off-road premium diesel. People can fill up at the tank and go inside to pay. "Nobody else sells it around here," Bloom said. "I...
The Life Link III helicopter responded to a motorcycle crash Sunday, July 7, in Twin Lakes Township. Stone River Boulanger was injured when his motorcycle apparently spun out at the end of his driveway on the 1500 block of Lakeridge Trail. According to the state of Minnesota public crash report, Boulanger's wife reported the accident at 4:01 p.m. Sunday. When deputies from the Carlton County Sheriff's Office arrived, Boulanger was sitting on the bike, but was confused about how he crashed and...
This spring, Cloquet school board members asked activities director Paul Riess to prepare a report showing the different sports teams, their participation numbers and the number of coaches for each team. What that report revealed was significant disparity in coach-to-kid ratios, particularly in two sports: cross-country running and Nordic skiing, where the ratio of kids to coaches was nearly 50:1. On Monday, board members voted to partially correct that disparity. Riess said he tried to compare...
Sam Kavanaugh, a 2009 Carlton High School graduate, showed the country how a teacher handles the Jeopardy quiz show in a taping shown Wednesday, winning $38,000 and knocking off the three-day winner for the right to play again. A crowd of supporters watched the Minneapolis teacher at the Streetcar Kitchen and Pub in Carlton, where his aunt and uncle, Rob and Teresa Kavanaugh, held a Jeopardy viewing party. They offered a free drink if he answered a Daily Double. He did. Sam is the son of Ed and...
About a dozen residents attended the hearing on funding a new Carlton County transportation garage in Barnum on Tuesday during the regular meeting of the Carlton County Board of Commissioners. Most people attending voiced concern that using a half-percent sales tax for funding the building would hinder road maintenance projects. In a PowerPoint presentation, county engineer JinYeene Neumann said space is limited at the aging facility, which was built in 1975 and added onto in 1978. In the 1970s, dump trucks were 25-feet long and motor graders w...
Arrowhead Senior Nutrition menu for July 12-19: Friday, July 12: Hamloaf, strawberry shortcake Monday, July 15: Chicken Parmesan with spaghetti, fresh fruit Tuesday, July 16: Chef salad, yogurt Wednesday, July 17: Liver and onions or alternative, strawberry cream pie Thursday, July 18: Roast turkey dinner, fresh fruit Friday, July 19: Stuffed peppers, banana cake Call 24 hours in advance to order the alternative entree. Frozen meals are available for weekends. Meals are served at the Cloquet Senior Center, open Monday-Friday at 11:30 a.m....
Last week we spent a lot of time with our son, as he took a week off before starting a new job. On Monday we took a North Shore Scenic Railroad trip up the North Shore past Congdon Park and back. We also enjoyed a cruise on the Vista Star, which took us around the Duluth Harbor. The excursion lasted an hour and 45 minutes and, as it was on a Tuesday, the cost was only $5. Yes, they have $5 Tuesdays, and it is a great experience for those who have never been or haven’t been on the lake for y...
