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05/09/2008 12:00 AM
The University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) Eni-gikendaasoyang/Center for Indigenous Knowledge and Language Revitalization will host the Minnesota Indigenous Language Symposium IV on May 12 and 13 at the Holiday Inn Hotel in downtown Duluth.
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05/09/2008 12:00 AM
Arson Awareness Week, slated for May 5-9 this year, is sponsored annually by the International Association of Arson Investigators to focus public attention on a serious crime about which our society has become complacent, according to State Fire Marsha Jerry Rosendahl.
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05/09/2008 12:00 AM
PACER Center is offering “Transition Planning and Community Resources: What You Need to Know.” This free workshop for parents of youth with disabilities and professionals is from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 20, at Cloquet Forestry Center, 175 University Rd., Cloquet. Advance registration is requested.
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05/09/2008 12:00 AM
Lakes and Pines Community Action Council celebrates May as Community Action Month along with 1,000 Community Action Agencies across the country that are helping low-income people change their lives and embody the spirit of hope. CAAs focus on the community as a whole in helping people help themselves to become self-sufficient.
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05/09/2008 12:00 AM
Truck driver Randy Martindale of Cloquet has driven one million accident-free miles for Werner Enterprises. Martindale learned how to drive trucks 12 years ago and has been a solo operator with Werner Enterprises for nine years.
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05/08/2008 12:00 AM
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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05/08/2008 12:00 AM
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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05/08/2008 12:00 AM
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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05/08/2008 12:00 AM
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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05/08/2008 12:00 AM
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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05/08/2008 12:00 AM
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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05/07/2008 12:00 AM
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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05/07/2008 12:00 AM
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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05/05/2008 12:00 AM
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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05/02/2008 12:00 AM
2008 marks Minnesota's sesquicentennial, the 150th anniversary of its induction into the United States of America. The Minnesota Sesquicentennial Commission is inviting you and all Minnesotans to join together for a commemoration of historic proportions.
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05/01/2008 12:00 AM
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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05/01/2008 12:00 AM
A scuffle broke out between two groups of teens in a residential Cloquet neighborhood Tuesday afternoon.
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05/01/2008 12:00 AM
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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05/01/2008 12:00 AM
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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05/01/2008 12:00 AM
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.
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05/01/2008 12:00 AM
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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05/01/2008 12:00 AM
St. Paul - Senator Norm Coleman visited the communities of Cloquet and Duluth on Friday, May 2, to discuss small business healthcare issues in Cloquet, before speaking at a local luncheon celebrating Law Day in Duluth. Check back this week for the full story of Coleman's visit.
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05/01/2008 12:00 AM
Sheriff Kelly Lake of the Carlton County Sheriff’s Office completed participation in and was elected vice president of the 94th session of the National Sheriffs’ Institute (NSI) held in Longmont, Colo., April 13-19.
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05/01/2008 12:00 AM
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04/30/2008 12:00 AM
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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04/29/2008 12:00 AM
ST. PAUL – Provisions restricting young drivers moved closer to law Monday.
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04/29/2008 12:00 AM
ST. PAUL — The Internal Revenue Service has begun to transfer economic stimulus payments to millions of Americans’ bank accounts.
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04/29/2008 12:00 AM
A 51-year-old Cloquet man was found Thursday in Koochiching County after being missing for almost 11 hours.
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04/28/2008 12:00 AM
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College is hosting the
fourth annual Law Enforcement Career Expo from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
on Wednesday, April 30, in the amphitheater and commons on campus.
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Troop 177 visits the Pine JournalLocal Cub Scouts from Carlton Pack 177 took a tour of the Pine Journal office on Monday. Scouts learned about the ins and outs of the making of a newspaper and publishing the news on a website.
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04/28/2008 12:00 AM
After a peak reading just over flood stage, the St. Louis River in Scanlon is receding, according to the National Weather Service.
As of Friday, the river was running at high levels from considerable snowmelt and heavy rain. The peak reading hit Saturday at just over flood stage of 10.5 feet at 10.6.
Today, however, as of 10:30 a.m., the water level had dropped to 10.14 feet, the National Weather Service said.
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04/26/2008 12:00 AM
The public is invited to nominate military families with loved ones serving in the Middle East to receive one of 15 new Lawn-Boy mowers. Lawn-Boy and Project EverGreen, a national non-profit organization, have partnered in the “Mowers for Military Families” program for a second year to help reduce the stress of yard care for military families without a working mower.
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04/25/2008 12:00 AM
I got a note from Tracy and Brent Goranson and they met with Julie and Jim Gronbeck in Brainerd a couple of weeks ago for lunch and shopping.
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04/25/2008 12:00 AM
USDA, Rural Development will have an office day in Cloquet every Wednesday at Cloquet City Hall from 8:30 a.m. to noon.
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04/25/2008 12:00 AM
The Arrowhead Regional Arts Council (ARAC) is currently seeking applications from individuals who live outside Duluth to fill two at-large board positions.
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04/25/2008 12:00 AM
Runoff from recent snowfalls coupled with rapidly rising temperatures will further spread the yearly outbreak of potholes on northeastern Minnesota state highways, advises the Minnesota Department of Transportation.
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04/25/2008 12:00 AM
Carlton County has been chosen to receive $13,979 to supplement emergency food and shelter programs in the county.
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04/25/2008 12:00 AM
Air Force Airman 1st Class Daniel C. Conley has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.
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04/25/2008 12:00 AM
Hebert-Kennedy 3979 VFW and Auxiliary will host the 8th District Loyalty Day meeting next weekend, May 2-4, in Cloquet.
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Washington Elementary fourth-graders Austin Parenteau, Emily Roy and Trenton Johnson sing their hearts out at the 16th Annual Volunteer Appreciation Dinner on Tuesday at Cloquet High School. They were just one group of many who performed for the volunteers, who gave their time and talents at Cloquet schools, the Cloquet Public Library and the Carlton County Historical Society during the past year. [Lisa Baumann/Pine Journal]
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04/25/2008 12:00 AM
Actions that parents, communities and schools can take regarding adolescent alcohol, tobacco and drug abuse will be the subject of six community forums throughout Minnesota in April and May.
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04/25/2008 12:00 AM
Artists from the Cloquet community are invited to paint a banner in honor of “Youth Art Month” and “Music in the Schools Month.”
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04/24/2008 12:00 AM
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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04/24/2008 12:00 AM
Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Chairwoman Karen Diver discovered a dead deer on her lawn on Sunday with a threatening note tucked in its mouth.
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04/24/2008 12:00 AM
It’s a long way from Cloquet, Minn., to Baghdad, Iraq – but it just got a little closer.
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04/24/2008 12:00 AM
The eyes of the state's medical community were on Esko High School graduate Joanna Burns last Thursday.
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04/24/2008 12:00 AM
Sixth-graders at Winterquist Elementary in Esko are hungry for technology.
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04/24/2008 12:00 AM
The Moose Lake-Willow River softball team had a strong start to the season after taking a 12-2 win over Cromwell-Wright Thursday, then added a 15-1 victory over McGregor on the road Friday, a 3-0 shutout victory over Rush City Monday and an 11-5 victory over Carlton Tuesday.
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04/24/2008 12:00 AM
Shannon (Skibicki) Proulx of Cloquet was among some 40 Minnesota citizens, educators and organizations to be recognized this week during a State Capitol ceremony for their commitment to removing barriers to independence for people with disabilities through the use of assistive technology (AT).
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04/24/2008 12:00 AM
Dear Seniors Legal Line:
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04/24/2008 12:00 AM
Energy costs, power supply and conservation were the topics of the day at the Lake Country Power annual meeting on Saturday, April 19. More than 300 members of the Touchstone Energy Cooperative filled the Lincoln Elementary School in Hibbing to hear reports about issues facing rural electric consumers.
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04/24/2008 12:00 AM
Actions that parents, communities and schools can take regarding adolescent alcohol, tobacco and drug abuse will be the subject of six community forums throughout Minnesota in April and May.
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04/23/2008 12:00 AM
The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for portions of Northeastern Minnesota and Northwestern Wisconsin for Thursday morning through Friday. The watch includes Carlton County and the Twin Ports area.
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04/22/2008 12:00 AM
The Wrenshall School Board is inviting Duluth parents dissatisfied with their school district’s long-range building plan to take advantage of open enrollment and send their students to Wrenshall, 15 miles southwest of West Duluth.
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Candy for the TroopsStudents in Kids Corner School Aged Child Care show off the artistic lollipop holders they created, complete with messages and drawings, to send to U.S. troops in Iraq to hand out to children there. Shown here are (back, from left) Nolan Perttula, Joshua South, Noah Witte and (front, from left) Sarah Stewart, Ebony DeLovely, Alexus Pellersels and Isaac Gaulke. more...
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04/22/2008 12:00 AM
Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa tribal leaders have issued a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever left a dead deer with a threatening letter tucked in its mouth on Tribal Chairwoman Karen Diver’s lawn.
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04/21/2008 12:00 AM
Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Chairwoman Karen Diver made an unpleasant discovery on Sunday – a dead deer with a threatening note tucked in its mouth left on her lawn.
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04/21/2008 12:00 AM
ST. PAUL – A federal highway administrator awarded for his work following the Minneapolis bridge collapse becomes Minnesota’s new transportation commissioner on Monday, April 28.
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04/21/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota will conduct a statewide Tornado Drill at 1:45 p.m. on Thursday, April 24.
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04/18/2008 12:00 AM
The Gidakiimannaanbooshke Giin Environmental Science and Outdoor Club at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College has planned a schedule of activities to celebrate Earth Week during April 21 though April 25, 2008. All activities are free and open to the public.
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04/18/2008 12:00 AM
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04/17/2008 12:00 AM
Tone Coughlin, CEC swim coach and owner of Twin Ports Events, gained approval Tuesday to bring hundreds of cyclists back to Cloquet on Memorial Day.
After discussion of some of the event’s first-year growing pains, Cloquet city councilors unanimously approved holding the Cloquet Criterium downtown on Monday, May 26. Cyclists will race around a one-mile loop for much of that day, resulting in road closures on sections of Cloquet Avenue, Carlton Avenue, 14th Street and Ninth Street.
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04/17/2008 12:00 AM
A tangled knot of some 20 cars was parked haphazardly in the front yard of the rural Cloquet home. Inside the front door, an equally hit-and-miss pile of shoes was randomly strewn about the entryway. From downstairs came the unmistakable sound of young people partying.
Time to call the cops?
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04/17/2008 12:00 AM
Actions that parents, communities and schools can take regarding adolescent alcohol, tobacco and drug abuse will be the subject of six community forums throughout Minnesota in April and May.
Locally, residents of Carlton County are invited to attend the session in Duluth at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 13, at Duluth Central High School, 800 E. Central Entrance.
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04/17/2008 12:00 AM
The 16th Annual Volunteer Appreciation Dinner, “Sesquicentennial – Celebrating 150 Years of Volunteers” will be held Tuesday, April 22, at the Cloquet High School Cafeteria, 1000 18th St., Cloquet.
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04/17/2008 12:00 AM
The Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTs) are excited to announce the 2008 Request for Proposals (RFP) to fund technical assistance (labor only) for community clean energy projects throughout greater Minnesota.
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04/17/2008 12:00 AM
The Northland Foundation recently hosted its third annual Regional Early Childhood Summit, held April 1 at the DECC in Duluth. More than 200 superintendents, administrators, teachers, school board members, early childhood specialists, and other community representatives from northeastern Minnesota attended. The summit grew out of the Foundation’s ongoing early childhood work including the Minnesota Early Childhood Initiative, a statewide effort for young children’s well-being and school readiness, and the Minnesota Thrive Initiative promoting healthy social and emotional development in infants and toddlers.
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04/17/2008 12:00 AM
The Western Lake Superior Sanitary District will host a free collection event for unwanted or expired medications at its regional Household Hazardous Waste Facility on Saturday, April 26, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. “Medicine Cabinet Clean-Out Day” is a one-day event offering residents free disposal of unwanted medications in a safe, convenient and environmentally sound manner.
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04/17/2008 12:00 AM
Natural gas customers of Minnesota Energy Resources Corporation (MERC) who have fallen behind on their natural gas bills and not made apparent attempts to catch up will face disconnection of service, according to company representatives.
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04/17/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota House of Representatives, District 8A, at the DFL Senate District 8 convention that took place at East Central School on Saturday, March 29.
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04/17/2008 12:00 AM
Cloquet City Council members agreed Tuesday to dive into restoring the sand-bottom pond at Pinehurst Park.
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04/17/2008 12:00 AM
Cloquet Police Officer Adam Reed was unanimously promoted to the rank of detective at Tuesday's Cloquet City Council meeting.
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04/16/2008 12:00 AM
No one was injured in a fire yesterday at Walt’s Cloquet River Inn at 6253 Bachelor Road in Grand Lake Township.
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Tax Day is upon usPostal workers in Cloquet load their trucks with heaps of mail thanks to today's tax filing deadline. [Lisa Baumann |Pine Journal]
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04/15/2008 12:00 AM
ST. PAUL – Questions are mounting today as details of a mega-airline merger emerge.
Minnesota will remain important in the new Delta Air Lines, but just how the merger will affect the state remains in doubt.
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Practice Burn in CarltonCarlton practice burn
Saturday’s snow and ice were replaced by heat and flames on Sunday as the Carlton Volunteer Fire Department conducted a practice burn on Chestnut Avenue.
According to Carlton Fire Chief Steve White, the owner of the buildings wanted to get rid of them and offered to let the fire department use them for a practice drill and on-the-job training for new recruits in a controlled setting.
Four small buildings and one garage in the area, located on the west side of town, were demolished in the exercise on Sunday. more...
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04/11/2008 12:00 AM
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04/11/2008 12:00 AM
Dr. Anne-Imelda Radice, director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services in Washington, DC, recently announced that the Ruth A. Myers Library/Ojibwe Archives at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College has been selected to receive the “Institute of Museum and Library Services Connecting to Collections Bookshelf.”
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04/11/2008 12:00 AM
The Arrowhead Regional Arts Council recently awarded grants totaling $55,735 in the ARAC Art Project Grants Program.
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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.](http://www.cloquetmn.com/gfx/photos/thumbs/NORM.JPG "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.")
![Soaked seagulls stand in the St. Louis River near Scanlon Friday afternoon. [Lisa Baumann/Pine Journal]](http://www.cloquetmn.com/gfx/photos/thumbs/ScanlonWEb.JPG "Soaked seagulls stand in the St. Louis River near Scanlon Friday afternoon. [Lisa Baumann/Pine Journal]")
