A hometown newspaper with a local office, local owners & lots of local news
A hometown newspaper with a local office, local owners & lots of local news
Sorted by date Results 858 - 882 of 4084
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...
A longtime Cloquet business has a new owner with a familiar face. Scott Nelson purchased Stock Tire from his boss, Steve Stavang, in August. Nelson had worked as a mechanic there for four years and is still doing plenty of hands-on work - he just added lots of other tasks to his list of duties. Nelson hadn't planned to buy the business. He actually gave two weeks' notice thinking he should do more paint and body work - his side gig in Carlton - when Stavang asked him if he'd thought about...
LOC Auto and Weld owner and main mechanic Luke Carlson was welding a truck bed Friday morning, but took a few minutes to report that business is going well at the new automotive repair shop. Carlson opened the business in the former Pete & Sons station at Cloquet Avenue and 15th Street in August. Carlson said he'll do everything except air conditioning or alignments, including oil changes, front end work, engine, transmission, custom welding and more. "It's going great so far, I've been swamped...
Do you know your French? In our continuing effort to get to the bottom of the business of where the Cloquet name came from, we found this front page of the Minneapolis newspaper, Echo de L'ouest, from February of 1918. It appears that the issue is profiling the state of things in the booming lumber city eight months before the devastating fire. The beginning of the article, using the very rudimentary French known by Pine Knot staffers, seems to describe where the name may have come from. We see...
After nearly six decades of caring for the community's elderly and infirm, Sunnyside Health Care Center in Cloquet is closing. Sunnyside and Community Memorial Hospital officials said the process will begin immediately and will be complete by the end of the year. Thirty-four residents will have to find new places to live, and close to 30 staff will lose their jobs. It was a difficult decision, said Community Memorial Hospital CEO Rick Breuer. But difficulty staffing the facility - which always...
The Wrenshall farmer at the center of an ongoing animal neglect case agreed last month to relinquish ownership of 12 horses as part of a civil agreement with Carlton County. In exchange, Henry DeVriendt Jr., 63, won't face criminal charges and also will not be responsible for financial costs related to last month's seizure and impoundment of 12 horses from DeVriendt's pasture located at 1196 Gault Road. "Nothing in this agreement shall be construed as an admission that Henry Peter Devriendt Jr....
The Cloquet Area Fire District asked the city of Cloquet for a share of its public safety windfall from the state, and got a caring but firm “no” in response. Councilors and Mayor Roger Maki voted 6-1 Tuesday to deny the request for $165,000 of the $556,397 in one-time public safety aid dollars allocated by the state legislature in its most recent session. The vote wasn’t as bad as it seemed, Fire Chief Jesse Buhs said. He said the denial wasn’t bad for the fire district, at least long-te...
Carlton County Public Health is offering two influenza and Covid-19 vaccination clinics. The first clinic runs 12:30-4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10 at the Carlton County Community Services building at 14 N. 11th St. in downtown Cloquet. A second clinic is set for 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18 in the conference room at the Carlton County Transportation Building, 1630 Highway 61, Carlton. Visit www.co.carlton.mn.us/349/Immunizations to register or call 218-879-4511. Have insurance information ready....
Finlandia Foundation Northland will hold its annual membership meeting at 3 p.m. Oct. 19 in the Fellowship Hall at the Presbyterian Church of Cloquet. Please join for updates on the past year and election of new board members and officers, followed by a program and refreshments. Learn about Finlandia Foundation National’s latest project, raising funds to continue its work in preserving operations of the Finnish American Heritage Center in Hancock, Michigan, and safeguarding the story of Finnish America for future generations...
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....
Cloquet High School has been celebrating all week long. With the football field in the final stages of construction, the Lumberjacks will crown their king and queen at a pep rally Friday afternoon in advance of the homecoming football game in Proctor and a dance back at the high school. Candidates for 2023 homecoming court are, front row, from left, Quinn Danielson, Madysen Waters, Grace Swanson, Erin Loeb, Ella Chartier, Kiley Issendorf, Carly Johnson, Mary Kayser, Autumn Peterson and Ava...
