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Duluth tall ship festival tickets on sale today
Tall ships docked at Duluth Harbor, 2010. Three tall masted ships will arrive in the Port of Duluth, Minnesota, this July. If you want a ride, tickets go on sale today and officials expect they will sell out by summer. The Tall Ships Festival is July 25-29 and if the 2010 event was any indication,…
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First saltie slated to arrive in Duluth Friday
The saltie Federal Hunter arrives in Duluth Friday. With temperatures rising — and I mean ever so slightly — we are starting to feel like it really might be spring in northern Minnesota. The best indicators are found in unusual places. The chicks have arrived at area L & M Supply stores (Every year the…
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Spring (shipping season) arrives in Port of Duluth
The Mesabi Miner loads coal for shipment to Marquette, Mich. It will return to pick up iron ore this weekend. Spring in northern Minnesota has officially begun, despite the bitter cold, blowing snow and ice-snared harbor. Today the ship Mesabi Miner departs from the Port of Duluth and Superior by way of a channel carved…
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The Beargrease is on, as are memories of Skeezer
The John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon is underway along Minnesota’s North Shore of Lake Superior this week. Making its first start in two years on Sunday, the race is expected to wrap up tomorrow, March 13. Last year’s race was cancelled because of poor snow conditions. You can follow results and see footage here. Watching…
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Twin Cities, Duluth rank high among college towns
The American Institute of Economic Research places two Minnesota metro areas high on a list of best college towns. Minneapolis-St. Paul is ranked sixth among major metro areas. Duluth is ranked 14th on the small metro list, just behind Honolulu. While #6 and #14 might not be enough for a medal, it’s fun to see…
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Runaway seal flops off to the sky
One of the two seals that escaped from the Lake Superior Zoo during last year’s historic flooding in Duluth has died. Here’s the teaser for the AP story at the top of yesterday’s Hibbing Daily Tribune. I share this because there’s a lot going on here. The top head is what you tell the kids.…
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Ness ‘drops’ State of City video at hipster hot spot
As we’ve already discussed, Duluth Mayor Don Ness delivered his annual State of the City address via video this year. The film was released last night and you can see it here: Ness wanted to discuss the impact of last year’s floods and used video tools to explore the devastation and recovery. The State of…
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Duluth mayor gives big speech from nasty snowbank
Peppy longshoreman Duluth, Minn., Mayor Don Ness is trying something new this year, delivering his annual state of the city address by cable access video instead of in a glitzy ceremony. Doing it this way will cost less and allow more people to see the speech, Ness argues. The speech, which was recorded this week,…
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UMD students declared hottest in the nation
A typical UMD student when not wearing parka. A website called DateMySchool has named the University of Minnesota at Duluth as the U.S. college with the hottest student body. Hotness, in this case, has been measured by the number of photos from that college that have been downloaded at their creepy website. I attended the…
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Duluth is a one-mermaid town
Well, there’s this. A young woman in Duluth has always wanted to be a mermaid. One $3,000 synthetic tail later, SHE IS ONE. And she’s finding a way to pay for that tail as a guest mermaid in hotel pools and special events. WDIO has video. The legend of mermaids comes from ancient sailing tradition.…
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North Dakota oil boom may soon reach Duluth port
If all goes to plan, oil tankers carrying Canadian and North Dakota crude oil could be shipping out of the Port of Duluth next year. Business North, WDIO and others have the story. Decades ago, oil had previously been shipped out of Duluth. Tankers run in other parts of the Great Lakes. This particular project…
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Last laker of the season arrives in Port of Duluth
If the last two weeks of frigid cold in northern Minnesota wasn’t enough, we can now remark that *real* winter has arrived. The final laker of the season arrives in the Port of Duluth this morning. From the Duluth Seaway Port Authority: Duluth, Minn.,USA — The US-flag laker, John G. Munson, is currently sitting at…
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Duluth mayor Don Ness does Gangnam Style
I suppose I could complain that infectious sounds of Korean pop rocker Psy’s “Gangnam Style” are only now reaching the shores of Lake Superior. This was, after all, the top internet sensation of 2012 and new holder of the all-time YouTube record. So many parodies have surfaced that another surely could not be needed. But…
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Downton Abbey in Downtown Duluth
Hey, Aaron, do you watch Downton Abbey? No, I’m afraid I don’t. You should. It’s really good. It’s about old stuff and history and elegance and England and such. You like that stuff. I do like that stuff. It’s about power dynamics and such. You like that. Yes, I do. It’s on Channel 8. You…
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BREAKING: Squash named Duluth vegetable of the year
Squash celebrate historic win in Duluth vegetable election, also revealing the segregation that pervades squash community. BREAKING: Duluth citizens elect squash “Vegetable of 2012.” Kale has been defeated. Repeat, KALE DOWN. SELL SELL! DEVELOPING… CORRECTION: We’ve been informed that kale was subject to Duluth vegetable of the year term limits. Kale was vegetable of the…