Throughout his 20-year career with Lake County, Sheriff’s Deputy Richard DeRosier said he’s never been targeted for vandalism or violence because of his job. But that streak might have ended.
Many Duluthians have scrubbed their memories clean of the economic downturn that engulfed Duluth during the early 1980s. But one positive they still pluck from that period is the birth of the Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation.
Levels of asbestos-like fibers in the air at Northshore Mining Co.’s Silver Bay processing plant will continue to be compared to fiber levels in St. Paul air under a ruling by the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
Six weeks after a petition calling for a modified version of the Duluth school district’s long-range plan was deemed invalid, the ruling was sent to the Minnesota attorney general for review.
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In support of coach Bang's theories Rick Weegman
Tom Bang doesn’t intend to stick around coaching Hermantown softball for another 17 or 18 years.
The long arm of the law Jim Heffernan
So I’m out for an after-dusk stroll in my quiet Hermantown neighborhood when a police squad car abruptly pulls up alongside me, and its driver ominously turns off the headlights.