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The search continues for Peter Michael Martin. The 31-year-old Fond du Lac Band member was last seen and heard from March 8. He is described as approximately 5-foot-10, 185 pounds with dark brown eyes. He has a small scar on his forehead and a number of tattoos across his left and right arms, shoulders and chest. On Monday, April 1, the Fond du Lac Band activated a full Emergency Operations Center process, requiring resources from all divisions across the tribal nation to support the search and rescue efforts for Martin. This allows search effo...
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College will host the 2024 Peace Officer and Criminal Justice Expo from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on April 17 in the Lester Jack Briggs Cultural Center. The event is free and open to the public, and lunch will be provided. The expo is designed to provide information about the wide range of career opportunities in the criminal justice field. More than 45 prospective employers representing police, sheriff, conservation officers and the state patrol will be in attendance to recruit prospective employees and provide...
A $42,000 Safe Routes to School boost grant is bringing eight bicycle fix-it stations to locations in Cloquet and the Fond du Lac Reservation, along with dual-language signs and a community mural by an indigenous artist to be selected. The fix-it stations will be located at the three FDL community centers, the FDL Ojibwe school, Big Lake Road trail, Washington Elementary, Pinehurst Park and the Cloquet Public Library. The dual-language signs are intended to increase awareness for walking and bicycling that incorporates indigenous arts and...
A five-year plan for roughly 64 miles worth of paving and other road and bridge projects was outlined to the Carlton County board on Tuesday. The tentative list of projects presented to the committee of the whole included only a half-mile of roadway reconstruction work this summer, on 22nd Street from Washington to Prospect avenues in Cloquet, along with a number of repavement projects moving forward. The longest stretch, 9 miles of County Road 6 to Barnum, is scheduled for 2028 and will...
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College will host the 2024 Peace Officer and Criminal Justice Expo from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on April 17 in the Lester Jack Briggs Cultural Center. The event is free and open to the public, and lunch will be provided. The expo is designed to provide information about the wide range of career opportunities in the criminal justice field. More than 45 prospective employers representing police, sheriff, conservation officers and the state patrol will be in attendance to recruit prospective employees and provide...
A $42,000 Safe Routes to School boost grant is bringing eight bicycle fix-it stations to locations in Cloquet and the Fond du Lac Reservation, along with dual-language signs and a community mural by an indigenous artist to be selected. The fix-it stations will be located at the three FDL community centers, the FDL Ojibwe school, Big Lake Road trail, Washington Elementary, Pinehurst Park and the Cloquet Public Library. The dual-language signs are intended to increase awareness for walking and bicycling that incorporates indigenous arts and...
The Carlton Area Lions Club has been serving the Carlton County area for 50 years strong, growing and serving. It is one of 49,000 Lions clubs around the world, and its members reside in all corners of Carlton County. They give their time and energy to create a positive impact here and around the globe. The club is over 25 members strong. Members spend much of their time raising funds to help support several causes. Fundraisers include their monthly Burger Night at the Carlton VFW, raffles, plant sales and more. Their next Burger Night is...
The National Weather Service in Duluth is hosting free in-person and online Skywarn Spotter training classes in the region this spring. Skywarn is a cooperative effort between the NWS, local emergency management, and residents who volunteer to attend free classes and send weather reports to the NWS. Volunteers who commit to attending serve a vital need for the NWS by monitoring and reporting severe weather conditions. The reports help the NWS deliver accurate and timely severe weather warnings. No weather background is necessary to attend a...
The County Seat Theater will host the Carlton High School production “The 10 Best Worst Things About High School” at 2 and 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 13. Ah, high school. The best worst four years of your life! Join a group of real-life high school students as they uncover the wonders perils of gym class, the marvels horrors of field trips, the joy humiliation of prom, and many more of the fond traumatizing aspects of life as a high school student. To reserve tickets call the box office at 218-878-0071 or reserve online at www...
The Wood City Quilters Guild of Cloquet celebrated National Quilting Day in Cloquet onMarch 15. Seventy quilts made by guild members were displayed at the Cloquet Public Library and the Carlton County Historical Society museum, right. Guild members were on hand to answer questions, provide information on the art of quilting and to promote Wood City Quilters Guild. The guild, formed in 2019, currently has 40 members at all skill levels. Its mission is to connect area quilters, learn from...
Retiring this week after 16 years as Carlton County land commissioner, Greg Bernu noted a pair of unfortunate trends on county lands: more people are illegally dumping items which ought to go to transfer stations, and recreational four-wheeling is ripping up forest roads too frequently. “It’s all recreational use causing this problem,” Bernu said. It leads to more maintenance work for county workers. “Between that and the garbage, you might be seeing more gates going up on our forest roads in Carlton County. It’s coming,” Bernu said. Bernu...
The woodpiles weren't a problem until they moved behind her house last fall, said Deb Kamunen. The Cloquet resident has lived next to the former Diamond match mill for 37 years. When the mill was still operating at 1800 Cloquet Avenue - under various owners - the lot behind her home was used for parking. Now it's a woodyard, piled high with logs stored there for the Potlatch mill in Brainerd. That is an allowed use, according to Cloquet city code. Woodyard manager Jesse Fitzsimmons leases...
Find the Easter Bunny from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Northwoods Credit Union Arena in Cloquet. Kids of all ages are invited to skate with the Easter Bunny and each other. Also on the roster are kids activities, face painting, prizes and the Cloquet Pep Squad, courtesy of Community Ed and the city of Cloquet. Helmets are encouraged but optional. Grab a $6 breakfast before the skate 8-11 a.m. at Carmen's Restaurant and raise money for the Cloquet track team....
Although the weather halted searches this week, Peter Michael Martin remains a missing person. The 31-year-old Fond du Lac Band member was last seen and heard from March 8. He is described as approximately 5-foot-10, 185 pounds with dark brown eyes. He has a small scar on his forehead and a number of tattoos across his left and right arms, shoulders and chest. Anyone with tips or information on Martin’s whereabouts is asked to call 911, the Fond du Lac Police Department at 218-878-8040, or the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office at 218...
The Cloquet Community Band is seeking new members. If you have played an instrument, please check out the band. Practice is 7-8:30 p.m. Mondays at the Cloquet Presbyterian Church, 47 Fourth St., Cloquet. The band provides sheet music, bring your own instrument. The group performs at a variety of community events. Questions? Contact Becky at 218-206-4441....
Brent James Keranen had been drinking late into the night with friends Wednesday, March 20, after working a “lot of hours” in the Twin Cities area that week. The 21-year-old was tired the next morning, and allegedly still buzzed when he made his way north to his hometown, Pengilly, near Hibbing. He was so out of it that he fell asleep and grazed a Minnesota state trooper’s vehicle while driving north that morning. He was pulled over and received a citation. The trooper checked his blood alcohol level and it was at 0.066, under the legal limit...
For 80 years, local residents have been asking for a Minnesota Highway 73 upgrade, specifically for the eight miles of the two-lane highway south of Cromwell. "That road in the present condition is dangerous," said former firefighter/EMT Bob Hattenberger, speaking at a recent Highway 73 Action Committee meeting. "A response by EMTs and ambulances has no place to park and those there trying to do their job are chancing injury while on the scene." Others voiced frustrations at a Minnesota...
A potential busing overhaul in Barnum ended last week, with board members choosing to keep its buses and bus drivers. The board had explored selling its fleet of buses and contracting with a private company for transportation services, after a shortage of school bus drivers caused a rash of parent complaints as children had to spend hours on longer routes and parents had to find other transportation because there were no substitute drivers. In exploring its options, the Barnum school board had posted two bids, one for bids on its buses,...
Measures which promise to result in thousands of dollars in cost savings were approved at the March Cloquet Area Fire District board meeting, but speculation about the fate of bonding before the state legislature hung over conversations about the potential for a new building in Cloquet. "I think we're literally chasing good money after bad things anymore, and the safety and health and comfort of staff needs to come first," said Cloquet board representative Sheila Lamb, regarding Station 1...
The first snowfall to hit like a heavyweight this winter found the county board meeting late in the afternoon Monday. Commissioners congratulated each other and staff for making it through in spite of the storm. Inside chambers in the Transportation Building, business flew by as fast as the flurries. Zoning and environmental services coordinator Chris Berg urged commissioners to consider the future of waste disposal in Carlton County. The landfill in Superior, Wisconsin is sunsetting as soon as 2026, Berg said, meaning Carlton County and other...
The Thomson Township Board of Supervisors approved a $400,000 certificate of indebtedness at its meeting Thursday, March 21, to finance the purchase of a fire truck, backhoe and woodchipper. The loan from North Shore Bank of Commerce will be paid off in five years, with monthly payments of $7,700. In other matters, the board approved a request from Tom and Sheri Reummele to place a mobile home on a portion of their property. “We just built a new home six or seven years ago. We won’t create an eyesore,” Tom Reummele said, noting they wante...
There was much scientific banter about last week as 15 Cloquet middle school students, three high school students and their research mentors William Bauer and Dr. Cynthia Welsh attended the Minnesota State Science & Engineering Fair. It was the 87th state science fair on March 22 at the St. Paul RiverCentre. Each year, hundreds of middle and high school students from across Minnesota present original research to STEM professionals and compete for prestigious awards. Cloquet students won the...
Three sixth-grade math teams from Cloquet Middle School attended the regional Math Masters competition in Duluth earlier this month. "It was a fun day," said math team coach and middle school teacher Christine Metzer, who described the March 7 competition and shared the results with the Pine Knot. The first round of competition included a 75-question "order of operations" test with a timed 5 minutes to complete it. Brisa Nelis placed fifth, Mareike Rosebrock placed eighth and Camden Ragsdale...
Rep. Jeff Dotseth, R-Silver Township, authored a bill to study the reopening of the General C.C. Andrews tree nursery near Willow River recently, which received a House hearing and remains in the mix for consideration. For years, legislators, mainly Republicans, tried to close state nurseries entirely, arguing that the state shouldn’t be in the business of raising trees. After the nursery closed in 2014, it was repurposed to train wildland firefighters and produce selectively chosen tree seeds to reforest state lands. “The nursery was a sel...
One local service club is making reuse - of plastic bags and eyeglasses cases - a centerpiece of their charitable works. The Carlton Area Lions Club is working with Trex, a composite decking company, to turn donated plastic bags into benches placed around the county. "We've actually collected enough pounds to do 10 benches," said Rita White, the organizer of the drive. She works with fellow club member Jim Vnuk to collect the bags from drop sites around the Carlton area and brings them to Super...
