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Our View…Fight fire with fire

A house fire is tragic no matter when it occurs, but when that fire was intentionally set, it is not only senseless but all that much more insidious.

Our Neighbors…Dan Jones and Family

For Dan Jones, family means two things — his tightly knit family of origin that hails from the Treaty 3 area near Fort Frances, Ontario, and, in a broader sense, those with whom he shares a cultural bond as part of the Ojibwe language community.

• Jones in the classroom
• Dan and Nancy Jones
• Jones

Carlton sophomore brings eye-opening slice of life to fellow students

The student was driving along in the car when the text came in. It was from her mother, saying, “We’re ordering pizza. Which do you want — pepperoni or sausage?’ In the course of time it took that student to read the message and send a one-word response, the car had wandered off course and dangerously far over the fog line. The student never saw the woman in gray....

• Texting driving simulator

Hibbing man sentenced to prison for Canosia Road burglary

A Hibbing man has been sentenced to 51 months in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree burglary after illegally entering a house in Thomson Township in January.

• Lushenko

AGE to age Family Fun Mile to be added to this year’s Lumberjack Laps

The After School Running Club concept is intended to encourage family fitness of all ages. It also coincides with the debut of a new “AGE to age Family Fun Mile” at this year’s Lumberjack Laps event, slated for Saturday, May 11, at Cloquet High School, beginning at 10 a.m.

• warming up
• running games

County gears up for increase in Medical Assistance cases

Income Maintenance Supervisor Patti Hart told commissioners that her department is bracing for the onset of an anticipated 1,068 new Medical Assistance (MA) cases when the federal government’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) takes effect Jan. 1, 2014.

Destination: Globals!

Esko, Cloquet students parlay imagination into success

• Esko DI team
• CHS Di team
• CMS DI team

Barnum School Board votes to hire new high school principal

Barnum school board members voted 4-2 in favor of hiring a new high school principal at their Tuesday meeting this week. The decision was not as straightforward as it otherwise might have been, however.

Local family has near miss in Boston Marathon explosions

The Sorenson family of Cloquet is playing a game of “What if?” following the dual explosions during Monday’s Boston Marathon. Steve

• Steve and Wenday Sorenson
• The day after

Traffic stop yields 405 grams of marijuana

Two North St. Paul residents were found to have 405 grams of marijuana in their possession following a traffic stop last Tuesday in Carlton County.

• Martin

Columns

In Our Own Backyard….Winter weather leaves us high and dry

The ultimate blow came when my husband and I arrived home last Friday after five days out of town and discovered we didn’t have any water in our house.

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In Our Own Backyard…Agreeing to disagree

The silence was so intense you could have heard a whisker twitch. The big orange cat, Mufasa, held court over the new red faux-velvet Christmas bed as though he were a king on a throne.

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In Our Own Backyard...He's the man who never returned

It started out as a weekend junket up the North Shore in search of snow. We had heard the areas around Silver Bay, Finland and parts north were getting snow, and my husband Ken and I wanted to get in a little cross country skiing.

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In Our Own Backyard….Resolve to be kind

It was a couple of weeks before Christmas when I noticed something didn’t seem quite right. I, like most everyone else, was spending most of my spare time combing the malls and department stores to complete the last of my Christmas errands.

In Our Own Backyard….Follow the light

On the first few ski outings of the season, I always experience a little shakiness until I get my “ski legs” back under me. That’s what I was feeling that day as I plummeted down the first steep hill and hit a small branch lying just under the snow.

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In Our Own Backyard…I’m dreaming of a purple Christmas

One evening last week, when things were a little slow and there was no football on TV, I somehow convinced my husband to watch a television show called, “Celebrity Holiday Homes.”

In Our Own Backyard…Santa is missing!

Without giving away any age-old secrets from the North Pole, and without violating any codes of silence that have existed from the beginning of time, suffice it to say just this: “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus!”

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In Our Own Backyard….What’s on your gift list this year?

I know that Christmas isn’t supposed to be all about toys and gifts and conspicuous consumption, but face it – those are sometimes the things that make it most memorable, especially for children.

In Our Own Backyard….You gotta have high hopes

Determination will get you everywhere.

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In Our Own Backyard…Cranberries, stuffing - and pasties?

Sometimes my husband calls them pasties (pay-sties) and sometimes he calls them pasties (paa-sties). But somehow, the word “pasties,” pronounced as it was meant to be pronounced when referring to the popular little meat pies, is never quite the first thing out of his mouth.

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