A St. Paul man was charged today in St. Louis County District Court with first-degree assault after being accused of shooting a Cloquet native and Marine veteran of the Iraq war in a residence in Duluth's East Hillside neighborhood.
A kayak competitor paddles through whitewater for practice in the gorge at Thomson dam in Jay Cooke State Park Saturday. The annual Whitewater Rendezvous was held there over the weekend. [Lisa Baumann/Pine Journal]
A number of familiar candidates will show up on the ballot for this fall’s upcoming elections in Carlton County. Several of them have run for office before, and at least one incumbent is “switching gears” to seek a different post.
Brad Johnson, 46, of Cloquet was on the “trip of a lifetime,” according to his wife Carol, when the float plane in which he and a friend were riding crashed Saturday in a remote area outside Anchorage, Alaska.
Johnson was killed in the crash, along with his friend, Roger Ball, 56, of Conde, S.D. (also his wife’s cousin) and the plane’s pilot, Thomas Iverson, 60, of Nikiski, Alaska.
A motion to approve tax increment financing (TIF) for a new housing development across from Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College died during the Cloquet City Council meeting Tuesday.
“Offering a farm fresh alternative to stale cinema,” the Free Range Film Festival of rural Wrenshall will celebrate its fifth year of showing quality independent films inside a historic barn July 24-26.
The din outside Washington Elementary will likely hit an unprecedented high this fall when students are given free reign over a new and improved playground.
Two flyfishermen, one from Cloquet and another from Duluth, are in good condition at Canadian hospitals following a bush-plane crash Monday in Labrador.
Although Becky Schneberger doesn’t come from a line of dancers, it became a family affair soon after she began taking lessons in second grade in her hometown of Austin, Minn.
“I always loved to dance,” said Schneberger, who was born in 1947. “When we found out the next-door neighbor was taking dance, my brother and I both joined. We ended up performing as a trio.”
Carlton will once again be “the place to be” next weekend as it hosts its annual Carlton Daze celebration.
Slated to run from Friday, July 25, to Sunday, July 27, the popular summer celebration features non-stop entertainment from dawn until well after dusk.
Love all things Frank Lloyd Wright? Can’t get enough of the fascinating quirks and foibles of Minnesota’s history? Wishing you could go “back to the Fifties” again? Then be sure to put Aug. 7 on your calendar.
In conjunction with the upcoming 50th anniversary celebration of the world’s only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed service station in Cloquet, the Minnesota Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA-MN), along with the AIA-Northern Chapter, is planning an afternoon symposium on Thursday, Aug. 7, that is guaranteed to satisfy all of those longings – and more.
Carlton County has one. The city of Moose Lake has one. Esko and Thomson share one and even the towns of Carlton, Barnum, Wrenshall and Cromwell have one.
The city of Cloquet, however, does not.
What is it?
In 1932, architect Frank Lloyd Wright unveiled his visionary plan for the perfect American town. On June 12, 2008, the Carlton County Historical Society unveiled an exhibition dedicated to Wright’s creation of the R.W. Lindholm service station, and the town – Cloquet – that made part of his vision a reality.
In our own backyard... Please pass the Finger Jello.... Wendy Johnson
I walked out of work early last Friday without ever looking back.
“I have to go home and make Finger Jello,” I declared to no one in particular as I walked out the door.