Bob CollinsAmber Marshall had to take a stand. You don’t steal an 8-year-old’s bike off the front porch. Not in Duluth, anyway. Read more →
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Tag: Duluth
Lake Mille Lacs is an important economic engine for Minnesota, which is why some state officials are pushing for a bailout of resorters in the wake of the DNR’s decision to halt walleye fishing this week.
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‘Uncle Harvey’s Mausoleum’ — also known as ‘the cribs’ in Lake Superior in Duluth — changed last winter when a concrete column ‘disappeared.’
Slowly — too slowly, perhaps — the landmark is disappearing. Read more →
Submitted without comment is this absolutely perfect Facebook post from the Duluth Police Department, honoring the opening of a Dunkin’ Donuts store in the city. Read more →
Duluth Mayor Don Ness suggested that St. Paul is just trying to be Duluth, and says while St. Paul might produce its share of beer, Duluth has the “ethic” than the capital city lacks.
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The law is having a hard time keeping up with technology-fueled entrepreneurs, but Duluth is giving it a go with a potential crackdown on homeowners who rent out their property to tourists via sites such as VRBO and AirBnB.
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A bear was stuck in a tree in Duluth yesterday– or maybe it was just fine up there; it’s hard to know unless you’re a bear. Nothing was working to get the bear down. Not even a radio guy dressed up as a bear as part of a shtick for a local radio station.
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Duluth-based Cirrus Aircraft is one of the state’s success stories, especially considering its location. So why are they building a new $15 million facility in Tennessee? Read more →
Michael Joseph Mooney of Duluth, the man killed in last week’s bus crash in the city, was a hero, officials are now saying.
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Sometime between the first of the year and Valentine’s Day, part of the huge concrete icons in Lake Superior in Duluth disappeared. Read more →
If all go according to plan, I’ve got six months left to work in the news business.
Why? Because a colleague let me know today that this job is open now.
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Hundreds of birds are being killed in the Duluth area during the annual migration of songbirds. Read more →
It’s the tale of political legend in Duluth. The oft-repeated story of a billboard in town during the 1980s recession has lacked proof that it actually existed. It urged ‘the last one out leaving Duluth (to) please turn out the lights.’ Read more →
It doesn’t look like the Mount McKay is going to be a fixture tooling around the Duluth waterfront again, not unless someone buys it and treats the tugboat the way Don Bergholm and the boat’s engineer, Bruce Lindberg, did. The two restored the 1908 boat and worked the waterfront until cancer claimed Lindberg last year. Read more →
The Federal Mattawa can’t come into Duluth Harbor because there’s no grain for it to pick up. Another rolling effect of the oil patch boom — grain trains are slow to Duluth? Read more →