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LoriLei Dembroski, who owns Surplus Depot in Cloquet, sweeps up shards of glass after the front door was shattered during a burglary early Tuesday morning. Computers, knives and swords were some of the items stolen. Cloquet Police are offering a reward to anyone with information leading to the arrest of those responsible.

Cloquet Police seek leads in local burglaries

Cloquet Police are seeking help from the public to find those responsible for two break-ins at businesses early Tuesday morning. At Surplus Depot at 705 Sunnyside Dr., the glass front door was found smashed and two computers, the cash register, knives, swords and other items were stolen, according to Darrin Berg, Cloquet detective.

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Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman shares a laugh with Cloquet area residents and small business owners last Friday at Cloquet City Hall.  Coleman made the stop to talk health care insurance and discuss the recently introduced Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP] Act, a bill he co-authored, which would provide relief to small businesses.

Coleman stops in Cloquet to talk health care

Senator Norm Coleman spent the morning last Friday at Cloquet City Hall, discussing health care and small business with area residents and business owners.

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Driver kills dog, sues owners who live just north of Cloquet

Soon after a car struck and killed a dog just north of Cloquet, the driver added insult to the injury: He filed suit against the family for the damage done to his vehicle.

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County on fast track to secure building site information from city of Cloquet

Cloquet city administrators got a bit of a jolt Tuesday when an e-mail from Carlton County asked them to provide extremely detailed information about a potential site in downtown Cloquet for a new county health and human services building – by May 16.

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Accomplished Cloquet High School student prepares to take the world by storm

Amanda Rosemore is one person who definitely deserves everything that’s coming to her.

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Elevator repair, transportation projects loom on horizon for county

Carlton County officials were faced with a bit of bad news this week as they gathered for the regular meeting of the Committee of the Whole on Tuesday.

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Drive hopes to replenish critically low food shelf

The weekend of May 10 should be indelibly ingrained in the minds of most of us. After all, it’s the Minnesota fishing season opener, Mother’s Day – and the Annual Letter Carriers National “Stamp Out Hunger” Food Drive.

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Transportation bill survives misunderstanding

ST. PAUL – Tempers occasionally flared, but most legislative negotiators kept their nose to the grindstone Tuesday in an effort to wrap up the 2008 Minnesota Legislature’s work.

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Volunteers needed for Frank Lloyd Wright gas station summer-long 50th Anniversary celebration

The Carlton County Historical Society seeks volunteers to be part of the summer-long celebration of the Frank Lloyd Wright Gas station 50th anniversary in Cloquet. An information session will be held from 6:30-7:30 p.m., Thursday, May 8, at the Carlton County Historical Society located at 406 Cloquet Avenue in Cloquet.

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Delta chief: Merger won't hurt rural service

ST. PAUL – Passenger air service in rural areas of the upper Midwest would not be harmed by a Northwest-Delta airline merger, a Delta executive said today.

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Cloquet schools to add $385,000 in teaching staff

Over the past two regular meetings, the Cloquet School Board unanimously approved hiring additional teaching staff for the 2007-2008 school year – at a cost of approximately $385,000.

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Frank Lloyd Wright gas station to receive makeover for 50th anniversary

The Frank Lloyd Wright gas station in Cloquet will get a much-needed makeover just in time to celebrate its 50th anniversary this summer. The structure, officially known as the R.W. Lindholm Service Station, will get what will eventually amount to a “substantial upgrade,” according to Mike McKinney who, with his family, owns the station and Best Oil Company in Cloquet.

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Pipeline expansion on track for Carlton County

Work on paving the way for an extension of the Lakehead Pipeline through Carlton County and surrounding areas is moving forward, according to a report given by Mike Harris of the Enbridge Land Department at Monday’s meeting of the Carlton County Board.

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Scuffle breaks out involving teen groups in Cloquet

A scuffle broke out between two groups of teens in a residential Cloquet neighborhood Tuesday afternoon.

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Carlton to move sixth grade to high school

Students finishing fifth and sixth grade in Carlton will all step up to the high school building next fall. Carlton School Board members approved moving the sixth grade from the South Terrace building to the Carlton High School building at a regular meeting April 21. The move makes South Terrace a K-5 school and Carlton High School, 6-12.

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Deputy nabs second of three AWOL Kamunen brothers in Carlton

A deputy sheriff was waiting for Leif Kamunen when he and his girlfriend pulled out of the Carlton driveway on Friday morning in her grandfather’s red Tacoma pickup truck.

Third of homeowners would get break

ST. PAUL – Taxes would fall for a third of Minnesota homeowners in a House Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party property tax proposal.

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Economic Stimulus Payments on the Way; Some Direct Deposit Payments Start This Week

ST. PAUL — The Internal Revenue Service has begun to transfer economic stimulus payments to millions of Americans’ bank accounts.

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Missing Cloquet man found in Koochiching County

A 51-year-old Cloquet man was found Thursday in Koochiching County after being missing for almost 11 hours.

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Barnum eyes school expansion referendum, would not raise taxes

A referendum on Tuesday, May 20, will determine whether Barnum Elementary School students will be able to spread out in a much-needed addition in the near future.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians names Esko resident 'Medical Student of the Year'

The eyes of the state's medical community were on Esko High School graduate Joanna Burns last Thursday.

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