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Post-season accolades continue to roll in for the Cloquet High School softball team which wrapped up the season last Friday by taking the Class AAA third-place trophy at the Minnesota State High School League State Tournament in North Mankato. Among the awards: Head coach Ron Tondryk was selected by his peers as Section 7AAA Coach of the Year this past week. Cloquet's Olivia Diver was selected to play in the MSHSL Senior All-Star Series on Sunday in Mankato. Top senior players from around the...
James Howard Granholm, 87, of Cromwell, Minn. passed away Thursday, June 6, 2019 in Cardinal Courts with his children by his side. Services were held June 9 in Bethany Lutheran Church in Cromwell. Inurnment in Sawyer Cemetery. Arrangements entrusted to Atkins Northland Funeral Home, Cloquet. Gloria Mae (Bertelsen) Kelley died June 9, 2019. Visitation: 1:30 p.m. until the 3 p.m. memorial service Sunday, June 16 at Bethany Lutheran Church in Cromwell.... Full story
The Thomson Township board approved the hiring of a comprehensive plan consultant at its June 6 meeting. The current comprehensive plan is 20 years old and township officials are working on updating it. Planning and zoning commission chairman Dale Reed reported the review of three responses to the request for proposals and was most impressed with MSA Professional Services. The board approved moving forward with hiring the company. Thomson Township already has a relationship with MSA; it acts as...
Despite a spring in which it appeared winter snows and early season rain would never let up, the Cloquet Lumberjack boys tennis team had a solid showing and one particular player, Peter Tomhave, had an exceptional year by qualifying for last week’s Minnesota State High School League Boys Tennis Tournament for the second year in a row. “At times this spring it seemed we were never going to be able to play,” explained coach Derek Johnson. “We just didn't know what to expect for anyone on the tea...
The summer after my sophomore year of high school I packed up and headed north. I would spend my summer break along the south shore of Gunflint lake as a “dock boy” for the Kerfoot family at Gunflint Lodge. I didn’t know exactly what I had signed up for, but I would figure it out on the fly. It didn’t take me long to learn my job description was “whatever needed to be done.” Most days I gassed up boats for guests and worked the waterfront. Weed whipping, mowing and raking were big parts of my... Full story
When you combine fishing, faith, and a passion to free those trapped in addictions, amazing things can happen. Leading up to this year’s Minnesota Fishing Challenge, anglers raised more than $341,000 to support Mn Adult & Teen Challenge drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs statewide. The cumulative amount generated via this family-friendly tournament since 2009 exceeds $2.2 million. Two Cloquet men, Stu Nelson and Rich Brummer, set a stout record this year with the most-ever raised by a t... Full story
Carlton County was well-represented at last week’s Minnesota State High School League Track & Field State Meet. As the largest school in the county, Cloquet was the only school to send athletes to the Class AA meet. Cloquet sent a total of eight athletes to state: Olivia Jameson in both the girls 100-meters hurdles and the high jump, Jordan Allen in the boys 3200-meter run, and the boys 4x800 meter relay team of Mario Genereau, Dennis Osvold, Blaine Bong and Logan Dushkin, with alternates C...
While the Cloquet Fourth of July festivities will include all the crowd favorites — 5K race, parade, pie eating contest, music, wiffleball, bouncy castles, buried treasure, fireworks and more — some different elements have been added to this year’s list of activities. New this year is a 3-on-3 basketball tournament at Pinehurst Park, organized by Cloquet High School alumnus Paul Cameron. Cameron said he and his friend Jackson Nemmers came up with the idea, in part because the courts at Pineh...
After sending rezoning and comprehensive plan change requests back to the Planning Commission and getting the same recommendation back — to deny the requests — the Cloquet City council voted 5-1 to approve the requests at its meeting June 4. The requests came from Sammy’s Pizza owner Mike Acheson, who wants to put a parking lot on a lot he owns at the end of Boulder Drive. Boulder Drive is a one-block, deadend street located between the Cloquet Chamber of Commerce building and Sammy’s. There a...
All options are on the table as Carlton County board commissioners try to figure out how to pay up to $10 million for a new or renovated shop building at the Carlton CountyTransportation Center in Barnum. During its Tuesday, June 11 regular session meeting, the board called for public input at a hearing to be held at 9 a.m. July 9 during its regular monthly meeting. Public input is being encouraged in person or by writing a letter. Funding for the transportation garage, whether it’s from a wheelage tax or using monies from the half-cent c...
The 37th annual Barnum Spring Fever Days was “a total hit,” according to Wayne Suronen, president of the Barnum Community Club. “The Miss Barnum pageant was beautiful and well-attended,” he said, noting that they had a full house of supporters to watch the four candidates and their attendants vie for the crown. Allison Began is the new Miss Barnum and first runner-up is Eden Sebring (pictured). “The next night we sold out 300 steaks in two hours and 15 minutes at the annual steak fry — that mi...
Alice M. “Sam” Woodworth, 86, of Cloquet, Minn., formerly of Angola, Ind. passed away peacefully on Wednesday, June 12, 2019 in Community Memorial Hospital. She was born April 13, 1933 in Valparaiso, Ind. to Harold and Rosemary Wheeler. She was a CNC operator at Clevite for 17 years before retiring in 1995. Sam enjoyed playing cribbage and Scrabble, as well as flower gardening and enjoying the hummingbirds. She had an infectious giggle and her family will miss her. Sam was preceded in death by... Full story
