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 ...

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 ...

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

Gerald Robert “Buck” Bloomquist, 100, died April 1, 2025, in Colorado. A military burial ceremony for the WWII Marine Corps veterans is scheduled for 9 a.m. May 9 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Artist Sarah Agaton Howes does some touch-up painting after installing her new mural at the Pinehurst Park bandshell. There will ba an official unveiling in May.

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 ...

Henry Hendrickson spreads his arms and tries to keep things together earlier this month at a double baptism at Bethany Lutheran Church in Cromwell, featuring his brother, Wyatt, at left, and his ...