The first half of last Friday's boys basketball matchup between Esko and Barnum was tight with Esko managing to stake themselves to a seven- point lead. Then Esko came out and got on an offensive roll ...

Gordy Sather of Cloquet earned a $25 gift certificate to Outdoor Advantage for being spotted with twin "I Think Knot" bumper stickers on his truck. He reads the weekly newspaper for what he called the ...

For the second year in a row, winter weather has been a challenge for the Cloquet-Esko-Carlton alpine ski teams, with Monday’s meet at Mont du Lac cancelled due to frigid temperatures. Head coach Ryan ...

The Chippewa Steel swept the Minnesota Wilderness in a weekend series last week. Chippewa took a 6-3 victory Friday night in Chippewa Falls and followed with a 5-2 win Saturday in Cloquet. Those ...

As the state’s plans to license legal cannabis dispensaries continue to be delayed, Thomson Township officials are taking steps toward deciding how the township will handle cannabis business ...

Bun Carlson's seat sat conspicuously empty as the Cloquet City Council meeting convened Tuesday. Carlson, the Ward 1 councilor for the past six years, died Jan. 12, at age 68. Mayor Roger Maki opened ...

The financial stress that is being put on individuals and families by our elected officials in the form of new taxes each year must be looked at very seriously in terms of how the continual increases ...

On Jan. 6, 2021, thousands of Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol to overthrow the election results. They injured more than 140 police officers, five who later died or took their own ...

I was driving down Country Club Drive by the Cloquet golf course when I spotted friend and fellow library board member Mary DuPont Hagen. She was outside the two-story, white house where she grew up, ...

Minnesota Power crews restored power Tuesday to 2,500 customers in the Barnum, Moose Lake and Sturgeon Lake areas who were impacted by an outage caused by the bitterly cold temperatures that morning ...

With two-and-a-half years of his four-year term behind him, Robert Abramowski resigned from the position of secretary/treasurer of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa last week, effective ...

Strong and balanced scoring helped propel the Esko girls basketball team to an impressive 66-27 home win over the Barnum Bombers on Thursday night. "We were able to control the tempo," said Esko coach ...