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Students who are not current on their vaccinations could be asked to stay home soon, Cloquet school superintendent Michael Cary said. State law requires that students be immunized, or that families who conscientiously object do that formally, he explained to school board members during Monday's meeting. "We're getting really close. [We're] at the point where principals are going to be contacting the last remaining families," Cary said, noting that there was a "sizable list" of students who are...
Reader Kim Ochocki was good enough to translate some of the copy we found in the Minneapolis newspaper, Echo de L’ouest, from February of 1918. We had hoped it would contain some clarification on the naming of the Cloquet River, and, subsequently, the city. Alas, we merely get one of the theories that has survived the years. It’s an important find, as there are more than a few thoughts out there. Finding a source from more than 100 years ago helps narrow the field a bit. Here is some of what Kim translated for us: “Where does this name Cloquet...
At their respective meetings Monday, the Carlton and Wrenshall school boards converged on a date to tour each district’s facilities. The boards will walk through three school properties beginning at 5 p.m. Nov. 13. The tours are the latest step as the boards work toward a potential consolidation between the districts. Because the tours are legally a joint meeting of the boards, the public will be allowed to join them. “People would not be restricted from following along,” Wrenshall super...
Saturday was the first time Isabelle and Josh Hamsmith participated in the Suicide Awareness Memorial Walk, but it won't be the last, said Isabelle. She and her father carried a sign to remember her mother, Autumn Rae Beck, who died by suicide in 2017. "I think just making the sign last night was kind of fun," said Josh. "It helped." They were with people who understood Saturday, because most of the nearly 200 attendees have been touched by suicide. They remembered friends, coworkers, children,...
A group home outing last week ended in the arrest of a client who ran away and then assaulted a police officer once he was found. At about 1 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 12, Carlton County 911 received a call that a client from a group home was on an outing in Moose Lake and ran off on foot from a staff member. Joshua Lee Bergan, 30, was reported missing and last seen walking toward Folz Boulevard. Carlton County Sheriff’s Office deputies went to the location to begin searching, along with the Moose Lake fire and police personel, St. Louis County Rescue...
A woman from Holyoke was airlifted from a crash scene in Carlton Township Sunday evening. Haylee Ann-Marie Thronson, 22, according to the Carlton County Sheriff’s office, rolled her 2009 Chevy Cobalt into a ditch off County Road 8 and the intersection with County Road 147 just west of Holyoke. She was the only occupant in the car. The sheriff’s office said alcohol may have been a factor in the crash. Thronson was sent to St. Luke’s Hospital in Duluth by a North Air Care helicopter with non-life-threatening injuries. Crews were dispatched at 7:...
The St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office on Sunday said it appears speed and alcohol were factors in an ATV crash in Alborn Township. Daniel James Doran of Esko, 49, received “significant” injuries that were not life-threatening. The crash, which didn’t involve any other vehicles or people, was reported at 12:41 a.m. from the 6800 block of County Highway 47 in Alborn Township. Doran was driving a side-by-side ATV. Doran was treated by first responders on scene and ultimately flown by Life Link to Essentia Health Duluth to be treated for his inj...
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, and you bring your instrument. The band performs at a variety of community events (spring and winter concert, parades, nursing homes and other events as requested). Questions? Contact Becky at 218-206-4441....
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is waiving vehicle permit fees at all 75 state parks and recreation areas on Nov. 24. With the support of the state legislature, the DNR offers Free Park Days to encourage Minnesotans to get outdoors and enjoy the health and wellness benefits of spending time in nature....
It's a sparse election season in Carlton County, where the only electable seats belong to a pair of school boards seeking to fill terms vacated by previously elected officials. In Barnum, board appointee Patrick Poirier and challenger Tony Newman will vie to fill the remaining year left on a seat that's up for election again in 2024. Election day is Nov. 7, with early voting already started. The Pine Knot News asked the candidates to respond to our election questionnaire, and both Poirier and...
Esko's Northridge Park could be getting a makeover next year, but township officials are looking for some input before making any large-scale changes. The 7-acre park along Canosia Road sits next to the Midway River. A wander through the park reveals wide-open green space and lots of trees with two play areas, park benches and a picnic area, and the pavilion, an indoor area with picnic tables and a kitchenette area. A small stage along the river is posted with an orange "danger" sign, warning...
Fall has arrived and with it, Halloween fun. The Haunted Shack outside Carlton opened, appropriately, on Friday the 13th. The smaller but spectacular Haunted Hawthorne is alive and well, with frights every weekend behind a family home in Cloquet. And there’s pumpkins galore, including in the Cloquet Middle School swimming pool on Saturday. There’s even an option for those who prefer to be terrified while driving their cars down a country lane listening to spooky music, courtesy of the County Sea...
Cloquet Mattress & Furniture, located at 1207 Cloquet Avenue, is a small business located in the heart of Cloquet. We specialize in furnishings for smaller spaces with an eye for quality and price. We proudly carry La-Z-Boy, England, Ashley, Allwood, Therapedic Mattresses (made in Minnesota) and MDA Rugs brands. We're open 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, and closed on Sundays. Finding the right furniture to offer our customers is an interesting job. We consider...
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College student Grace Lavan won first place in the Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium’s inaugural app competition. Her winning app is titled “A Re-evaluation of the Effects of a Pipeline on Gray Wolves.” The app explores the question of how wolves are affected by the construction of an oil pipeline on Fond du Lac land. Eulogio Lopez also received a scholarship from the consortium for his academic achievement in GIS. Both students are working toward geographic information system certificates. • • Carter Northey, a stud...
On Saturday, the Fires of 1918 Museum and Depot in Moose Lake will commemorate the 105th anniversary of the fires that devastated the region on Oct. 12, 1918. A documentary will be shown at 2 p.m. in the Soo Line Event Center and memory candles will be available. There will be coffee and conversation afterward. On this date, Oct. 13, in 1918, the world was catching wind of the fires that consumed northeastern Minnesota the day before. Fires wiped out the cities of Moose Lake, Cloquet and other t...
Five dogs and nine house cats roam through Taylor and Shannon Hansberry's Barnum home, napping in sunbeams, nuzzling the couple or their son Ruxin for attention, and gently but firmly approaching newcomers to see if they'll offer the same. Nearby, a pair of camera-shy feral cats live in a small enclosure the family maintains in their garage. The Hansberrys are one of a handful of families in the recently formed Carlton County Animal Rescue, members of which began fostering lost and stray...
Editor's note: Both soccer games Tuesday and the football games Wednesday will be played at the new turf field in Cloquet, superintendent Michael Cary said Monday in an update. Hints of frustration showed Monday as Cloquet school board members discussed a still uncertain finishing date for the Members Cooperative Credit Union Stadium complex, with final football and soccer games approaching quickly. "The field's been sitting there almost a month," said board member Dave Battaglia, referring to t...
At the committee of the whole meeting on Tuesday, Carlton school board members again took up the issue of consolidation with Wrenshall. Consensus formed around having superintendent Donita Stepan contact Wrenshall and arrange for both boards to tour the buildings of both districts, in response to a letter sent a month ago by the Wrenshall school board. In August, Carlton agreed to discuss a merger, but only on the basis of having one campus which would have to be at South Terrace, the current site of the Carlton Elementary School. In their...
An annular solar eclipse — which shows a “ring of fire” around the moon — will cross North America in a downward diagonal “path of annularity” from Oregon to central Utah, southwest Colorado, to central New Mexico and southern Texas. Within that path, 118 to 137 miles wide according to space.com, viewers will see the smaller moon mostly block the sun, with a ring of fire showing around the edges. Most of the rest of North America will see a partial solar eclipse, including Minnesota, where the moon will block between 40- and 50 percent of...
Esko Schools superintendent Aaron Fischer told school board members Monday the construction of the new fitness center was progressing, but with unexpected costs. Previous work when the school was expanded in 1998 uncovered drain pipes that were no longer needed, but instead of being removed, were left in the ground. "It's a $10,000 cost to remove that because it was underneath our new fitness center," Fischer said. He also reminded the board of another issue, an extra door that a state reviewer...
Starting Nov. 1, Minnesotans who need health insurance can sign up for 2024 coverage through MNsure at www.mnsure.org, where they can easily find, choose and purchase health insurance. MNsure’s open enrollment period runs from Nov. 1 through Jan. 15. Open enrollment is the annual opportunity to enroll in health coverage, change plans, and renew coverage. MNsure estimates that Minnesotans who are eligible for tax credits will save $6,750 in 2024 and spend 5 percent less on private health plan premiums than they did this year, on a...
The University of Minnesota Extension Timber Management and Taxation School will hold a workshop to provide tax professionals, foresters, logging contractors, landowners, agricultural lenders, and farm management instructors up-to-date information on federal tax treatment of income and expenses associated with the sale of timber. The workshop will run 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Nov. 9 at the golf course restaurant at Black Bear Casino Resort. Registration starts at 9:30 a.m. Cost: $50 on or before Nov. 7 and $60 on Nov. 8-9. For further information...
A rural Carlton County man faces both state and federal child pornography charges after an FBI covert operation revealed “sexually explicit contact” with a minor, including an explicit photograph. Cord Cameron Schipman, 33, was charged in U.S. District Court Sept. 29 with a single count of production and attempted production of child pornography. As in the Stephan Hansen case reported in the Oct. 6 issue of the Pine Knot, if Schipman is found guilty, the minimum sentence is 180 months (15 years) in federal prison; the maximum is 360 months (30...
A Cloquet man admitted in Carlton County Court last week that he sexually assaulted a 6-year-old girl in 2016. Kim James Connors Jr., 32, who goes by “KC,” pleaded guilty to one charge of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, penetration or contact with a person under 13, Friday, Oct. 6, in Sixth District Carlton County Court. According to the criminal complaint, the girl reported to staff at the Carlton County youth shelter in 2021 that Connors touched her “all the way” when she lived at his mother’s house as a foster child. She later told ano...
In a letter last month to the neighboring city of Carlton, the city of Wrenshall declined to support the Carlton ambulance service as it moves toward adding two full-time positions to a historically volunteer staff. “After much thought and deliberation, we have come to the conclusion that it would not be fiscally responsible for us to burden our residents with a levy increase of 10 percent to cover your requested contribution of $9,537.13,” said the letter, signed by Wrenshall Mayor Gary Butala. To date, Wrenshall is the only jurisdiction in...
