Will Stenberg captured this coneflower at Jay Cooke State Park last week. Echinacea angustifoliais has found a home in the region, though it is most commonly found in western and southwest Minnesota.

At the adjourned annual meeting held Aug 19, residents of Thomson Township twice voted to finalize a preliminary 11.29 percent levy increase proposed in March and approved three advisory motions for ...

If the Esko High School baseball team is going to continue its recent string of success, they will have to do it with a new head coach. Last week longtime coach Ben Haugen submitted his resignation to ...

I'd known him for over 60 years. I golfed and partnered with Steve Johnson in the Moose Cancer fundraiser at the Cloquet Country Club on July 21. I had a post-round celebratory beer with him and other ...

When Jenna Leger moved to Cloquet four-and-a-half years ago, she was not only the new USG plant manager, she was also mother to Bobbie, who was not yet 2 years old. Child care was not easy to find, ...

It was a wild and wooly Carlton County Fair last Thursday through Friday. There was weather, rainy, hot and cold, and plenty of action for the thousands who came. There were plenty of cool rides to be ...

Have you ever had a moment of realization that someone wasn’t quite what you thought they were? I remember one basketball season, way back when I was in seventh grade. We were a pretty average team, ...

Cloquet city councilors helped pave the way for the new fire station and a new business in the city’s West End, and considered a more palatable tax levy increase for 2026 this week. The news about ...

Fairgoers were among the first to get the news that the lifelong Carlton County resident is making a run at statewide politics after many years and types of service here. The button on his shirt said ...

The small-town girl who broke onto the Nashville music scene last year has taken up semipermanent residence there as she watches her career take off. Next up for Carlton's Abrianna Schmidt: singing ...

Dawson Gaskell was buzzing around the Northeast Minnesota Beekeepers Association building at the Carlton County fairgrounds Sunday, handing out honey samples and generally making sure all questions ...

Constitution 101 The Judicial Branch The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and ...