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The Cloquet football team opened the season on the road at Proctor on Friday night and executed a game plan nearly to perfection in picking up a 38-6 win. After stopping the Rails on their opening drive of the game, the Lumberjacks went the length of the field and scored with 5:56 remaining in the first quarter on a 1-yard run by quarterback Alec Turnbull. The extra point was booted by Dain Painovich as Cloquet went up 7-0. "We did some nice things and I thought the effort was good all the way...
Thursday, Sept. 2 Girls soccer Esko- 2 Princeton- 1 Boys soccer CEC- 7 Mesabi East- 0 Volleyball Marshall- 3 Cloquet- 1 Floodwood- 3 Carlton- 1 South Ridge- 3 Cook County- 2 Friday, Sept. 3 Football Moose Lake/ Willow River- 28 Hermantown- 21 Logan Orvedahl led the Rebels with 187 yards on the ground and a touchdown as well as an interception in the waning moments of the game. Orvedahl also returned a kickoff 88 yards for a score. Cromwell- Wright- 13 North Central- 12 With two minutes remaining, the Cards had a goal- line stand and then went...
The Cloquet varsity volleyball team continued on a great start to the 2021 season with a three- set sweep over Carlton Tuesday. The Lumberjacks - who are now 3- 0 on the season - have not lost a set this season. They won 25-12, 25-18 and 25-15 in front of a spirited crowd at the Cloquet Middle School. The 'Jacks took an early lead and never trailed in the first set of the match. Cloquet used timely placing, finding a weak spot in the Bulldogs defense, and several unforced errors from Carlton...
The Esko football team rolled to an impressive 37- 0 win over Duluth Denfeld Sept. 2 to open the season. The Eskomos put up impressive offensive and defensive numbers. "I still think we made too many mistakes," said Esko coach Scott Arntson. "We had three turnovers and six penalties and we need to clean that up if we want to beat the better teams, or they will take advantage of that." Last season the Eskomos had 70 players in grades 9-12, but this year have 54 after graduating a large senior cla...
Over the last weekend of August, the Cloquet Country Club hosted its annual Dan Sheff Memorial golf tournament, an adult-child event that has become the second- largest tournament of the summer. “It is very gratifying seeing families coming together to enjoy the game of golf at our facility,” said CCC golf pro Bill Manahan. “We’re happy to host the event.” More than 170 golfers teed it up for this year’s festivities. Typically, teams are parents and grandparents partnering with children or...
Over the last year and a half, 2021 Cloquet grad Josh Sanders has discovered a new and unique hobby. With time on his hands due to distance learning during the pandemic, the athletic Sanders began "highpointing" northern Minnesota counties as a way to find new areas to hike and run, and get outside. Sanders explained that highpointing is going to the highest natural point in a given area, whether it be a county, state, country, or any point of prominence. His hobby brings with it goals and...
For the 13th year in a row, yes, even during last year's pandemic - hundreds of people descended upon downtown Mahtowa for the annual Rat Rod Rendezvous. It's a car show, but with more rust showing and a lot of creativity. Actually, they say Saturday is for the "shiny cars" - your more traditional street rods - and Sunday is for the rat rods. What makes a rat rod a rat rod is imagination combined with mechanical know-how, resulting in a sort of mobile collage that comes together to make one vehi...
House to House Heart to Heart Carlton County Church of Christ Before you hit “share” or “like” on that post, consider Paul’s admonition from Philippians 4:8: “Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy — meditate on these things.” • Is it true? Each day, hyped- up fear- fed articles are posted about new applications, foods, vaccines, politic...
Zion Lutheran Church offers a free self-serve food pantry cupboard, available 24/7, located at the entrance to the church grounds at 1000 Washington Ave. in Cloquet. For more information call the church office at 218- 879- 4647. The Salvation Army drive- thru food shelf is open 4:30- 6 p.m. Mondays and 8:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. Tuesdays. Free produce is distributed the second Wednesday of the month at 10:30 a.m. until supplies are gone. 218- 879- 1693 Ruby’s Pantry visits the Cromwell Park Pavilion the second Thursday of the month. Registration 9...
Let’s hope the new school year goes well without Covid- 19 disruptions or outbreaks in our districts. Harvest Fest is this weekend; check out all the activities on the Facebook page. Also, the area Clothing Depot in Cromwell is having a $3- a- bag sale on Saturday as part of the festival. The Extreme Team will be selling ice cream at the steak fry and on Saturday during the day. The Farmers Co- op store in Wright is back to winter hours. It’s open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and...
Emotions were high Wednesday at Washington Elementary School as students returned for a new school year. Staff members were joyful, yet took charge tenderly as the younger students alternated between tears, confusion and excitement about the new school year. Bus drivers also had to hold the doors open longer and repeat the stop more than once as children trickled off the yellow buses. First-grader Finley White walked to school and bravely said goodbye to his dad, Chris White. He took three steps...
Children of all ages at Judy's House day care celebrated the end of summer last week with unlimited trips (except during naptime) on a giant blowup slide. It was quite a year, said owner and at-home child care provider Judy Sanda. "We stayed open all the way through Covid with anywhere from one to 15 or 16 kids, including emergency workers' kids," she said. She's been running her Cloquet child care center out of her home for 43 years....
This week's History Mystery entry comes from Marilyn Kiehl of rural Cloquet. She received the above photo from neighbor Lorraine Henschel and is wondering who is in this picture and what event they were posing for. If you recognize these people or have any information that may unlock the mystery, let us know by emailing [email protected] with "history" in the subject line....
A new Essentia Health clinic, located at the former Mercy Hospital in Moose Lake at 4572 County Road 61, opened Tuesday. According to an Essentia press release, there are two family medicine physicians solely dedicated to this clinic, with plans to eventually double that number. The clinic utilizes already existing lab and radiology resources. “We’re excited to expand our offerings in Moose Lake,” said Dr. Tom Witt, family medicine physician and administrator at Essentia Health- Moose Lake. “Providing comprehensive care close to home isn’t j...
The drug REGEN- COV, a monoclonal antibody therapy used in treatment of Covid- 19 infection and post- exposure preventive treatment, is available at Community Memorial Hospital. The drug is indicated for use in adult patients or pediatric patients 12 and older who meet the following criteria: They have confirmed Covid- 19 infection with mild to moderate severity of symptoms and are at high risk for progressing to severe disease, hospitalization or death. They can also have had significant exposure to an individual infected with Covid- 19. These...
The state of Minnesota is adding more Covid- 19 testing sites to meet a resurgent demand. Early in the summer the state had closed some of its community testing sites as fewer people were seeking tests. But rising case counts driven by the more- contagious delta variant in recent weeks are bringing more demand for testing. The state opened a semi- permanent testing site at the Minneapolis Convention Center last week and will open another at the former YMCA in Lino Lakes on Monday. They join existing community testing sites in Bloomington,...
Photos of Labor Day festivities...
