By Dana Kazel St. Louis County is requiring face masks to be worn inside all county buildings. This applies to all employees and visitors regardless of vaccination status. St. Louis County continues to experience substantial transmission of COVID-19. The CDC defines substantial transmission as 50 or more new cases per 100,000 residents in a week....
By Ron Brochu, BusinessNorth A tourism promotion plan sought by city of Duluth administrators has less to offer than the existing one that has been managed for decades by Visit Duluth, representatives of the destination marketing organization (DMO) argued Thursday. Earlier this week, Mayor Emily Larson said tourism tax revenue should be allocated to private...
MnDOT crews will be closing the southbound left lane of I-35 starting today at noon in Duluth just past Boundary Avenue. The lane closure is needed until a catch basin can be repaired. Work is expected to be completed and the lane reopened by the end of the week.
The mayor of Duluth has proposed a significant change in the way the city markets its tourism assets, recommending most of the work be taken from a decades-long partner and given to an outside agency, the BusinessNorth.com is reporting. . The popular Lake Superior College Foundation 2021 Golf Outing and FUNdraising Social: Swinging for Scholarships...
Dale was raised on the farm started by his parents, Gerald and Isabel in the 1930’s. Dale and Deedra bought the farm in 1985 after they were married. Originally 360 acres, since 1985 the farm has grown to about 1,300 acres including Deedra’s parents, Erling and Iva Olson’s farm. They raise registered and commercial polled...
By Sylvia Wier The Cantilever Distillery + Hotel in Ranier was chosen as one of the state’s outstanding construction projects by the newspaper Finance & Commerce in its annual Top Projects competition. Entries are judged on their design, construction techniques, degree of difficulty and sustainability efforts. The hotel and distillery, which opened in January 2020,...
By Sylvia Wier and Brian Larsen A Georgia man wanted in connection with an alleged case of child molestation took his life after a short standoff with city and county law enforcement Sunday in a parking lot on Dove Island. The Koochiching County Sheriff’s Office was alerted about 2 p.m. by the U.S. Marshals office...
Brianna Crockett, an accounting student at Lake Superior College, is one of 207 Phi Theta Kappa members named a 2021 Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholar and will receive a $1,000 scholarship. The Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholarship Program helps new Phi Theta Kappa members defray educational expenses while enrolled in associate degree programs. Scholars are...