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Wrenshall is the land of milk and honey — literally. Two weeks ago we celebrated milk production in Wrenshall with Breakfast on the Farm at the Laveau Dairy, and this week I got to taste fresh honey straight from the comb. The Food Farm provides fields for local producer Christian Dahm’s bees to forage. His bright, multicolored boxes are located on the northwest corner of our farm and offer a cheery sight for folks coming and going on County Road 1. On Sunday, Dahm was out checking on his col...
A raft of new measures from this year’s legislature officially became law July 1. Summaries of all laws passed by the Legislature in regular and special sessions are available online from nonpartisan House Public Information Services at house.mn We continue a synopsis of those bills started in last week’s Pine Knot News. Housing The $15 million funding increase in the omnibus agricultural finance law is evenly divided between housing development and redevelopment efforts, and prevention and efforts to end homelessness. Programs where inc...
Lara Wilkinson and the other members of the Cloquet Economic Development Authority are tired of seeing Cloquet residents drive up and down Interstate 35 to spend money at places like the Moose Lake Brewery, or at Bent Paddle in Duluth. Standing under a banner bearing the slogan "Got beer? Bring it here," more than a dozen community leaders raised empty purple plastic party cups in a toast to future business partners that could bring new life to Cloquet's historic business district. "Let's keep...
A host of new measures from this year’s legislature officially became law this wee, as of July 1. Summaries of all laws passed by the Legislature in regular and special sessions are available online from nonpartisan House Public Information Services at house.mn We take a look at the new laws here and in next week’s issue of the Pine Knot Agriculture The omnibus agricultural finance law will provide $287.85 million in state funding, an increase of $59.51 million. The bulk of that, $40 million, will go to toward broadband infrastructure dev...
Historic Minnesota events that took place July 5-11. July 5 1928 The Minnesota National Forest is renamed the Chippewa National Forest. July 6 1849 Bavarian immigrant Anthony Yoerg opens Minnesota’s first brewery, located in St. Paul below what is now the RiverCentre parking ramp. Today’s Yoerg Brewing Company picked up the historic mantle recently after the original Yoerg company went out of business in 1952. The new company opened a taproom in St. Paul this past spring. 1883 Mule cars begin carrying passengers on Superior Street in Dul...
July is always an important anniversary for me. After being a janitor at Channel 3 for more than a year, the bosses there showed no sign of promoting me; so, on July 2, 1987 I started at Channel 6 on the technical crew. Man, I was tempted to quit after that first night because of the hectic pace. I didn’t think all that stress was worth $3.35 an hour. But, like a good Iron Range Finn, I stuck it out. My interest in becoming part of the news media goes back to the ’70s when my father lent me his...
A semi truck full of fruit overturned off Highway 210 in the early hours of Monday morning, after it collided with a van that crossed the centerline. According to the Minnesota State Patrol report, just after 3:30 a.m. Monday, July 1 the van - driven by Duluth's Nathan Christopher Smith, age 37 - was traveling westbound on Highway 210 while the semi was eastbound near mile post 211 and the intersection. The van crossed the center line and semi driver Michael Gregory Soule, age 54, of Perham,...
While Cloquet has seen its share of new buildings and businesses enter the local market since the new year started - think Members Cooperative Credit Union and Aldi grocery store - the changes don't end there. Other local businesses have remodeled, changed location or names, and at least two new businesses have popped up at existing properties. Pine Knot News intern Caleb Swanson hit the streets to find out what's moving and shaking in the business world. Ellison Family Chiropractic Ellison Fami...
Kevin Boerboom is the new CEO of Sisu Healthcare IT Solutions. Boerboom has worked at Sisu for seven years and has been interim CEO since November 2017. Sisu board chair Rick Breuer (who is also Community Memorial Hospital CEO) said Boerboom is the right person for this position. “The board of directors conducted an extensive search for the next CEO at Sisu and after reviewing credentials from a large field of candidates and interviewing a select group, we are convinced that Kevin is the right person to lead Sisu,” said Breuer, adding that Boe...
Community Memorial Hospital took center stage earlier last month, when three visitors from Washington, D.C. arrived for a firsthand look at the rural hospital. Eighth District Congressman Pete Stauber and Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Eric Hargan and Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Stephen Censky toured the Cloquet hospital on June 17, then stayed for a discussion with hospital officials and doctors. Stauber said he brought the two undersecretaries - each No. 2 in their...
The Carlton and Wrenshall school boards will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 9 in the South Terrace elementary school gymnasium. The meeting will begin with a welcome from both board chairs, introductions and an overview of the agenda, along with ground rules for board members and the audience. Community members are welcome to attend and listen to the discussions, but public comments won’t be taken. Next, the two superintendents will lead a discussion focusing on both districts and their challenges, as well as areas of current cooperation and coll...
It seems that summer is really flying by again this year. There are just so many activities to take part in and only so many weekends to get them in. But with this in mind I am asking, no, begging, for volunteers to help out at the Little Red School House at the Carlton County Fair Aug. 15-18 in Barnum. The Carlton County Retired Educators have volunteered for many years at the Little Red School House and need more help this year, as many members have died, and many others can no longer help....
Ceremonies last Friday celebrated the graduation of 48 students who successfully completed program requirements in the Law Enforcement Skills Training Program during Summer Session 2019 at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College. More than 400 people attended the ceremony, which marked the 19th group of students to participate in the FDLTCC Law Enforcement Skills Training Program. The 500 hours of skill training is required of all individuals seeking careers as peace officers in Minnesota....
Robert Sobczak of Cloquet was named to the second semester dean’s list at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota in Winona. The list includes 343 undergraduate students who earned a grade point average of 3.60 or better on a 4.0 scale. The Cloquet All-Night Graduation Party Committee of Melissa Kelley, Tracy Mattson, Stef Gunelson, Michele Walsh, Vickie Nordin, Theresa Sarkela, Bobbee Conway, Leigh Rahkola and Bobbie Turner extends a thank you to those who helped make the 2019 celebration a success. The committee reports that the graduates had...
Rising high in the air like the trees they are named for, the White Pine Apartment building in Cloquet is nearing completion. Created in response to a 2014 housing study that showed a serious shortage of housing, particularly for lower income levels, the 35-unit building will be entirely affordable housing. Debra Shaff, executive director of the Cloquet/Carlton Housing and Redevelopment Authority, explained that the apartments will provide workforce housing. "They're for people with some sort...
On June 4, at the noon meeting of the Cloquet Rotary Club, scholarships were awarded to six area high school seniors. Five $1000 scholarships were awarded to Scott Rousseau of Carlton; Annika Wold of Esko; and Kelly Lorenz, Claire Taubman, and Logan Gallup of Cloquet. A $1500 Henry Walter Scholarship was awarded to Abby Johnson of Cloquet. To be eligible, scholarship recipients must attend four Rotary meetings, give a brief presentation to the club, participate in Rotary service projects, and...
The full boards from the Carlton and Wrenshall school districts will meet July 9 to discuss the possibilities of consolidation. The public meeting begins at 7 p.m. at South Terrace Elementary School in Carlton. There will be no public comment opportunities as the board leaders and superintendents worked out an agenda that will grant all 12 board members a chance to talk about their vision of a combined district. Carlton chairwoman Larae Lehto announced the meeting details at her board’s regular June meeting on Monday. The schools will create g...
On Thursday, June 20 at approximately 5:45 a.m., the clerk at TJ’s Country Corner store in downtown Mahtowa arrived at work to discover that the building had been burglarized sometime since closing the night before. Carlton County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded. Some product was taken, along with some cash in a donation jar at the front desk and Mahtowa Fire Department raffle ticket stubs and cash that people donated toward the raffle. It was the second burglary of a Carlton County hometown convenience store in less than a month, as a bur...
The Cloquet City Council meeting for July 2 was canceled, so the next meeting — to be held at the new City Hall location at 101 14th Street — is scheduled for July 16. Although the agenda for that meeting isn’t set yet, city administrator Aaron Reeves said the council will interview candidates who have applied to fill the Ward 3 seat vacated by Dakota Koski before that meeting. They plan to appoint one of those candidates to fill the seat for the remainder of the year during the July 16 meeting. Ward 3 residents are encouraged to apply for t...
The question is not if there will be a new county jail, but what that new building would include, and how Carlton County would make the annual loan payments on such a massive mortgage. Voters are being asked to weigh in on the "how to pay" question in November, when the county will ask for approval of a new half-percent sales tax versus simply raising property taxes to make the annual bond payments. In the meantime, the Carlton County board of commissioners and the county jail executive...
Earlier this month, the Cloquet school board approved the budget for the next fiscal year — which officially starts on Monday — showing an anticipated deficit of nearly $331,000 in a $31 million budget, or approximately 1 percent. Cloquet finance director Candace Nelis said the projected deficit is lower than the $600,000 to $700,000 predicted earlier this spring, after the district made some staffing cuts and the state legislature approved a 2-percent increase to the General Education for...
Carlton County, Pine County, the Carlton Soil and Water Conservation District and the Pine County Soil & Water Conservation District have announced plans to develop a comprehensive watershed management plan for the Nemadji Watershed. The planning process known as One Watershed, One Plan — or 1W1P — aligns local water planning based on major watershed boundaries. The goal is to develop local strategies that are prioritized, targeted and measurable. As part of the planning effort, a watershed tour and open house will be held Friday, July 12 from...
This is the third year that Doreen and Duane Laveau have hosted folks on their farm for a celebration of Carlton County’s dairy industry. Breakfast on the Farm will run 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at 508 Cemetery Road in Wrenshall. There is free parking at the farm. The $4 breakfast will include pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage, coffee and milk. The event is open to kids and adults and will include milking demonstrations and hayrides. Special guests in the pole barn include Rebekah Paskewitz ...
Anna Gunelson of Cloquet was named to the president’s list at Gonzaga University for the 2019 spring semester. Students must earn a 3.85 to 4.0 grade-point average to be listed. Gonzaga University is a humanistic, private Catholic University providing a Jesuit education to more than 7,500 students along the Spokane River near downtown Spokane, Wash. It is routinely recognized among the West’s best comprehensive regional universities. Rebecca Lund of Cloquet received a bachelor of arts degree in anthropology and sociology at the University of...
The Cloquet city council voted 5-0 Tuesday to censure Ward 5 City councilor Steve Langley, after independent investigator Michelle Soldo found that Langley had sent an unwanted text message to former Cloquet police chief Wade Lamirande and contacted and complained to Lamirande’s current boss in Langley’s capacity as city councilor. Lamirande filed a series of complaints against city officials earlier this year, detailing eight issues each with Cloquet city councilor Steve Langley and Clo...
