The Carlton County Board of Commissioners are considering a rather novel use for the current Cloquet City Council Chambers, once the city employees move down the street and the current building becomes county property.

“Let us see if Sixth District Chief Judge [Sally] Tarnowski would be open to having a courtroom established in the purchased current Cloquet City Hall boardroom,” said Commissioner Dick Brenner, chair of the Committee of the Whole (COW) at the Dec. 4 COW meeting. “We, as a County Board, are having pressure from our Sixth Judicial District to establish a third courtroom...