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My first cousin Byron Korby passed away Dec.11, 2022. At age 68, I guess it's somewhat expected and understandable, but, truth be told, I don't have that many cousins left on this earth. He was one of my favorites. He died at 74, from complications of Lewy body dementia, a disease with no known cure. He grew up in Cloquet and graduated from CHS in 1966. He was an all-state performer on the rifle team and played trumpet in the award-winning CHS marching band. Byron also graduated from the...
Jessie Waldorf opened CreativEdge in 2017 with the help of her husband, Joe. She left full-time employment to begin her own business. Without Joe's support, CreativEdge would still be a daydream, Jessie said. Jessie's 18 years of print and design experience has given her the knowledge to serve both individuals and businesses with professional design and fast, quality service. She began simply: A computer and a 250-square-foot space in Carlton, offering only graphic design services along with...
The Cloquet Middle School MathCounts team placed second overall in regional Arrowhead competition in February and qualified for state competition as a team. Devin Cary was first overall, qualifying as an individual as well. Pictured here are team members Patrick Radosevich, Devin Cary, Matthew Mangan, Adriana Mondati and coach Arne Maijala. The state contest in early March included 125 middle-schoolers from across the state who took part in math-skill games to get acquainted and then took three...
If you're wondering about the military jets flying over Cloquet this week, they may be honoring one of their own. Noah Feehan, a master sergeant in the Air National Guard who spent 18 years as a jet aircraft technician, was in hospice care and has now died after a two-year battle with brain cancer likely caused by exposure to toxic burn pits during deployment overseas. Feehan was featured in the Pine Knot News last fall as part of a story by Public Health Watch about military members or...
Members of the Barnum High School John O. Calverley Chapter of the National Honor Society have demonstrated excellence in "scholarship, service, leadership, and character." During the school year, Barnum NHS members carried out projects that included a food drive, a clothing drive, church projects, suicide awareness posters, Barnum Sports Network, all arts day leader, writing cards for teachers, conference child care, Easter cards for nursing home residents, and together hosted three blood...
Not every poem Patrick Stevens writes will see the light of day. Some are crafted simply to get it all out. "I'm venting a lot of anger in my poetry at this point about snow," Stevens said last week, before the warming thaw. "It's nothing I'm going to publish ever. It's more about getting it out on paper." In December, the 75-year-old Stevens, with the help of some old Cloquet High School classmates, published his first book of poetry. Titled "Panning Gold," it features 40 poems across 146...
Carlton/Wrenshall softball pitcher Abby Mitchell and her dad, Jason, wrangle some of the 200 boxes of cupcakes Abby has since March 31 been selling to raise money to help Wrenshall's Sjodin family and daughter Janae as she undergoes treatment in the hospital for injuries suffered in a car crash on March 24. Mitchell has her own baking business, Hello Cupcake, to make money for her future college plans. A community "Sjodin Strong" benefit will be held 2-6 p.m. Saturday, May 6, at the Four...
In a way, Katharine Johnson's writing career was sparked by a dislike of washing dishes. The Cloquet author recounts how she was always trying to figure out ways to not do the dishes when she was a little girl. "So when it was my turn one time, I just scooted upstairs and hid from my mother," she said. "I don't know what possessed me, but I said: 'I can't, I'm writing a book.' And lo and behold, she did the dishes for me." She started, but never finished, that particular mystery novel, and...
It's that time of year again, and those volunteers that make Carlton County a safer place to live by providing emergency medical services throughout the year were recognized at the Carlton County board meeting on March 14. Moose Lake Fire District chief Steve Trenhaile presented the awards to each of the recipients. Trenhaile has spearheaded the EMS and fire department training in Moose Lake. Erik Bergstedt was honored as "Person of the Year" for EMS. Bergstedt is an emergency department nurse...
After 38 years, Beth Ninneman worked her last shift at the Cloquet Pizza Hut on Monday. As usual, she was doing a little bit of everything: waiting on customers, taking orders, cleaning, hiring, cooking, doing dishes, joking with staff and generally making sure all was well at the 46-year-old restaurant. "The customers and my crew kept me here this long," said Ninneman, a Yooper (from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan) who moved to Cloquet to manage the Pizza Hut here. "There are people here I've...
I got on the phone to find out more about Cloquet High School senior Ellie Evenson, who was involved in the first year of girls wrestling at Cloquet. Evenson broke barriers and brought confidence to herself and teammates as they'd never imagined. In a November Pine Knot story, Kerry Rodd introduced readers to Evenson and the new sport at CHS. I wanted to find out more about her drive, purpose and motivation. It didn't take me long upon meeting her to recognize what a great (and busy) kid Ellie...
Cloquet's Roger Maki received the Realtor Emeritus award, which recognizes 40 or more years of membership in the National Association of Realtors along with valuable and lasting contributions to the real estate profession and the community. Maki has been in the real estate business for more than 53 years and is currently working for Adolphson Real Estate's Cloquet office. The National Association of Realtors is the largest trade organization in the United states, with more than 1.5 million...
Cameron Nelson has joined TrueJourney, an investment planning and management group in the Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network. With over two decades of experience in the financial services industry, Nelson said he brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to his role. He is based out of the company's Cloquet office located at 1403 Ave. C., Suite 4. Contact him at 218-879-0918. "In my new role at TrueJourney, it is my continued goal to go above and beyond in building meaningful relationships...
When Tom and Nancy Getchell started an automotive repair business, T&N Auto Repair, in a two-stall garage on Avenue B, they did so with an understanding: they'd offer fair prices and honesty for all customers. "And that's the way it's worked for 25 years," Nancy said this week, just days after the shop closed for good on March 10. The reason for the end is tragic: Tom, 57, has terminal late-stage brain cancer in the form of two tumors. Thirty-one days of radiation earlier this winter was aimed...
Steve Kneeland provided this photo, taken by his mother, Jean Kneeland, from the scene on March 24, 1963, at the Cloquet Co-op Shopping Center parking lot on 14th Street (where City Hall is now located). The Cloquet High School boys basketball team lost to Marshall by one point in the championship game of the state tournament the night before, in what remains one of the best championship games in tournament history. The welcome home celebration for the team was attended by a reported 2,500...
Carlton resident and consulting forester Jan Bernu was recognized as the Tree Farm Inspector of the Year by the American Tree Farm System in January. The award is presented annually to one among thousands of foresters who help nearly a half-million landowners across the country take care of woods in accordance with Tree Farm's standards of sustainability. Bernu was selected for the national award from four regional (Northeast, Midwest, Southern, Western) finalists; the honor was announced...
Cloquet Middle School principal Tom Brenner said it's his job to improve the quality of education in his building by working with the teachers in the classroom. It's a numbers game that inspires the former math teacher. "If you think about it hard, if we can improve instructional practices and what our teachers are doing, that affects the 125 kids they teach every day. Then if we get them a little better every year, the number of kids that [improvement] reaches and touches is enormous," he said....
Dave Perry, a teacher at the Cloquet Area Alternative Education program, is one of 131 nominees statewide for the 2023 Minnesota Teacher of the Year, Education Minnesota announced in January. Perry is the only Carlton County teacher to be nominated. Perry, who teaches social studies and special education and helps coordinate the restorative practices program at the school, said helping students find their paths is a quality he has aspired to as an educator. Perry was one of four teachers statewide to receive the Educator of Excellence Award...
When I seek feedback on Minnesota Twins or Vikings news and transactions, I turn to two reliable sources in Cloquet. The first is smiling Dave Haapanen, usually found stocking shelves in the cereal or salad dressing aisles at Super One. The second is Justin Dinger, who works with kids in the teen section of the Cloquet Public Library. This is Justin's story. Justin grew up in the Twin Cities - Brooklyn Center, to be exact - with his mom and dad, and two younger brothers, and attended Park...
Levi Hoover and Sascha Korpela were crowned homecoming king and queen after the Cromwell-Wright basketball game on Friday, Jan. 27. Members of the homecoming court included, back row from left, Rowdy Egger, Liam Schoenberg, Noah Foster, Romain Jacques, Avery Koivisto, Payton Rosbacka, Taylah Pfisthner and Ellie Anderson. In the front row, from left, are Noah Burr, King Levi Hoover, Kayzie Korpela, Queen Sascha Korpela and Jorja Zimmer. Photo by Watrin 6 Photography...
Dwight Cadwell first realized something wasn't right during the annual Safe and Sober program at WKLK radio 11 years ago. The longtime sports broadcaster and other guests had been imbibing various alcoholic beverages for over an hour and being breathalyzed by local law enforcement to demonstrate how their blood alcohol content, and therefore their ability to drive, was being affected. Except for Cadwell, it wasn't happening. "By the end of the show, my blood alcohol content had never risen beyon...
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is looking for members from diverse and underrepresented communities across the state to serve in the agency’s environmental justice advisory group. Applications are open through Feb. 13; application information is available at https://www.pca.state.mn.us/about-mpca/environmental-justice-advisory-group. There is an information session at 5 p.m. Jan. 25 at the MPCA Duluth office at 525 Lake Ave. S. in Canal Park with online sessions Jan. 17 and Jan. 23. The MPCA environmental justice advisory group a...
Last week's item, asking for information about the group of cheerleaders at right, yielded results. Bruce Jutila let us know that the cheerleader at far right was Darlene Rosbacka, who married Bob McDonald, the basketball coaching legend at Chisholm High School. She died in 1997. Gary Bodie noted Darlene as well; she was his first cousin. He added that the toddler cheerleader, Mary "Buff" Benson, was a classmate who graduated with him in 1966. "I've seen her at class reunions, and her married...
A fire in rural Cloquet has left North State Services garbage haulers - often referred to as "the one with the pink bins" - scrambling, but determined. "We take it day by day," said Lynnette Hansen, who owns the company alongside her husband, Gerald. "We're trying to do the best we can. We're trying to service our customers. We're not concentrating on anything else but our customers right now." The fire to the company's shop and garage at 7018 Maple Grove Road started at 10 p.m. Dec. 21, and...
Laura Mills Anderson was ordained Dec. 17, surrounded by friends, family and an extended church community who came together at Cloquet's Zion Lutheran Church to celebrate with joyful ceremony the next step in her journey. Zion was the church home to her and her parents Mike and Kathy Mills, and siblings Rachel and Dayle, while she was growing up, and later when she was the youth director there for several years before going to seminary. Asked when she knew she wanted to be something in the...
