Administrators in the Cloquet School District have been working hard in recent weeks to come up with nearly $2 million in cuts for the next budget year, superintendent Michael Cary told board members ...

Former area resident Gary Homstad has published a book of his photos from out west. He will be at the Bookstore at Fitger's ...

School officials surveyed locally say they will adhere to state advice when it comes to a federal government directive to ...

Carlton school board acknowledged the resignation of superintendent Donita Stepan effective Monday the 21st of April during their regular board meeting. After the meeting board chairwoman Laura Nilsen ...

Helen H (Waldorf) Witte, 79, of Cloquet, Minnesota, born July 3, 1945, completed her journey on earth April 9, 2025, while wintering in San Tan Valley, Arizona. After starting their family, she worked ...

Carlton school board went deep into the night with Monday’s working session to find ways to cushion a drop into deeper deficit territory than expected. In somewhat of a repeat of last month’s working ...

The decision to bulldoze the two-lane undivided Highway 61 redesign plans and maintain the two-lane divided road has me confused. If changing the current two-lane divided (four lanes total) to a ...

The U.S. Constitution is a wonderful living document. In it, women in the United States should be able to vote in federal elections regardless of their last name. In August 1920, the 19th Amendment ...

We are now less than three months into this administration. Last week we saw the investments in our retirement accounts and 401(k)s decline by trillions of dollars over just a few days. That money ...

Esko schools celebrated four athletes committing this month to continue their sports in college. Ben Schramm will play soccer at Quincy University in Illinois, Kaitlyn McConnell will compete in track ...

Volunteers and a contractor are tackling the sand and other debris left over from the weeklong Cloquet Hockey Day activities in Veterans Park this winter. At-large councilor Lara Wilkinson asked for ...

Carlton County has been added to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources’ list of areas subject to open burning restrictions of vegetative debris. As warm and dry weather increases across the ...