Bob Collins
For many people, the calendar is irrelevant when it comes to the first day of winter. It starts when the Madeline Island Ferry calls it a season because of ice on Lake Superior between the island and Bayfield, Wisconsin. Read more →
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Tag: Lake Superior
To remember the 39th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the National Weather Service in Marquette is tweeting the weather in “real time” today.
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What we might think of as ‘bad weather’ may not be a bad thing for everyone. Read more →
At one point during the winter, we wondered whether all of the ice would ever leave Lake Superior. About 10 percent of the lake is still covered with ice, but the Coast Guard has ended its ice-breaking operations for the year. According to sources, summer is coming. Lake Superior Magazine has put together a time-lapse Read more →
It isn’t really spring until the Madeline Island ferry makes its first run to Bayfield, Wis.
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Three Coast Guard ice breakers arrived in Duluth yesterday, sailing under the Aerial Lift Bridge in the closest sign of spring that we get around here anymore. Read more →
Decisions facing parents of African American students, breaking the stereotype of hunger, Kiev is burning, the man who wouldn’t kiss his sister, and frozen Superiority. Read more →
Upon further review, the NFL may be more enlightened than the media portrays. Is racially offensive material more acceptable if it’s art? Behind the caucus night fights in Minneapolis. The viral cop photo in Saint Paul. And how to see the ice caves of Lake Superior. Read more →
In 1994, 94 percent of the Lake Superior was frozen. That’s a record that may fall in the next few days. Read more →
What we don’t know about cars, can you call Richard Sherman a jerk without being called a racist, the caves of Lake Superior, why Dunkin’ might not be such a sweet deal for Minnesota, and Ricky Rubio is still adorable. Read more →