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While there are no more candidate forums on the calendar in Carlton County, many of the forums held earlier this month are available to watch online or on your local cable access channel.
The most recent Cloquet school board forum, hosted by the teachers’ union Tuesday, Oct. 27, is available here and is also running on the CAT-7 cable access channel.
Anyone with online access can still watch Cloquet candidate forums held Oct. 12 and 15. The Oct. 12 forum was sponsored by the Cloquet Area Chamber of Commerce and featured candidates for city council, mayor, school board, sheriff and county attorney. The Oct. 15 forum featured District 4 county commissioner candidates Mark Thell and Sue Zmyslony and was sponsored by the Pine Knot News, because county board candidates were not featured in any other local forums. Due to the late arrangement, District 2 candidates Tony Compo and Ann Gustafson were not available.
Both the Oct. 12 and Oct. 15 forums are posted to the city’s website at http://www.cloquetmn.gov. On the city’s homepage, click on the “I want to” tab, then go to “watch a meeting” and find the forums und...