Cloquet

Nearly 40 student-athletes from rural schools across the Northland will race at next week's state meets at Giant's Ridge.

As fall sports wrap up, high school athletes are participating in section and state tourneys for soccer, tennis, cross country, football, volleyball and swimming and diving.

June flash flooding in northeastern Minnesota washed away stream sediment from around the piers of the continuous-span bridge over the Cloquet River.