A $12.6 million regional initiative of America’s Cultural Treasures will provide new funding for Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian American-led arts organizations. The funding, to be distributed in two phases, is made possible by a collaboration of the McKnight, Ford, Bush and Jerome Foundations. Phase 1: Regional Cultural Treasures $7 million, provided by Ford &...
The University of Minnesota’s Center for Transportation Studies presented Duluth Seaway Port Authority Executive Director Deb DeLuca with its 2021 Distinguished Service Award today at a virtual ceremony led by CTS Interim Director Dawn Hood. The William K. Smith Distinguished Service Award is presented annually to a private sector professional in the freight transportation and...
The Port Authority revived a 114-year-old building to serve as its new headquarters. If these walls could talk, they’d have a lot to say – including stories of surviving not just one but two pandemics. Read all about it in the spring issue of North Star Port magazine, along with Tess Lepley’s path to her...
By Kate Van Daele The City of Duluth and YMCA have partnered to bring lifeguarding services to the Park Point Beach House this summer. Lifeguards monitor safety conditions and provide residents and visitors a publicly accessible place to enjoy Lake Superior with trained and knowledgeable lifeguards keeping watch. Lifeguard services will resume Memorial Day weekend...
Five local groups will take the stage at Bayfront Festival Park on Saturday, June 19 as part of the 45th annual Grandma’s Marathon weekend. The all-day celebration, which is free and open to all ages, was moved to Bayfront this year from its traditional place near the finish line in Canal Park. Rock-a-Billy-Revue will kick...
Former Duluth East high school hockey centerman Dominic Toninato scored the game-winning goal for the Winnipeg Jets in a 4-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers in a National Hockey League North Division semifinal round best-of-seven series opener at Rogers Place in Edmonton on Wednesday night. Veteran Jets coach Paul Maurice praised Toninato in a Winnipeg...
Second-seeded Duluth East will host the Cambridge-Isanti/Princeton winner in a Section 7AA high school boys tennis semifinal at 3 p.m. Tuesday at historic Longview Tennis Club. No. 1 Elk River, No. 3 Anoka and No. 4 Coon Rapids will also host semifinal matches Tuesday afternoon. . The 2021 Duluth Lakeview Legion Baseball Golf Scramble, an...
A portion of Skyline Parkway is now open to vehicular traffic. West Skyline Parkway and Hank Jensen Drive from Twin Ponds to Enger Park Golf Course was supposed to remain closed so that pedestrians and bikers alike could enjoy the larger space to recreate, however due to continued issues of barricades and sandbags being thrown...