Konnie LeMay

Around the Circle This Week: April 21, 2022

Park It: The Lake Superior region has a wealth of parks worth acknowledging for this National Parks Week in the United States. We thought this would also be a good time...

Supporting Our Five U.S. National Parks

The Lake Superior neighborhood boasts five national parks in the United States, covering just about every variety you can think of under the National Park Service’s...

Around the Circle This Week: April 14, 2022

Talk about a Throwback Thursday: The phrase,  “a winter wonderland” in the Lake Superior region has two meanings, both embodied by this beautiful image...

Around the Circle This Week: April 7, 2022

Our Own Signs of Spring: Washington, D.C., has its cherry blossoms, but the Lake Superior region has plenty of signs that winter will leave … eventually. In the Twin...

Around the Circle This Week: March 31, 2022

Homecoming: After almost three months away from their families, the crew of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Spar (WLB-206) arrived in Duluth around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday...

Around the Circle This Week: March 24, 2022

One More Day: One minute after midnight on Friday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will open the Poe Lock in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., and officially open the 2022 Great...

Around the Circle This Week: March 17, 2022

Light Speed: The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Spar, newly assigned to Duluth, is working its way toward the St. Lawrence Seaway system … and if the speed on this timelapse...

Around the Circle This Week: March 10, 2022

Transitions: There have been notable comings and goings and up-for-sales recently. The only remaining fleet based on Lake Superior – Great Lakes Fleet – has been put...

Around the Circle This Week: March 4, 2022

Long Way Down, Long Time Back: After 130 years, the resting place of the lost wreck of the Atlanta was revealed this week by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society...

Around the Circle This Week: February 25, 2022

Looks at Locks: During this National Engineers Week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Detroit District highlighted two Lake Superior projects – the New Lock for the...