Konnie LeMay

Around the Circle This Week: February 18, 2022

f Winter Port-al: Thought we start off this week with a glam shot of the Paul R. Tregurtha – longest laker on the Great Lakes at 1,013 feet – wintering at the Duluth...

Around the Circle This Week: February 11, 2022

Laying Up: The Lake Carriers’ Association (LCA) based in Cleveland released a summary of the investment the fleets of the Great Lakes are contributing to...

Around the Circle This Week: February 4, 2022

Gold Medal Guys & Gals?: The Big Lake neighborhood has some talent to watch at the Olympics this year. The Duluth Curling Club posted a photo of these dudes and an...

Around the Circle This Week: January 28, 2022

Of course you are, so we thought we’d start out with Paul Scinocca’s photo of the Arthur M. Anderson’s last arrival for the season in Duluth on Jan....

Around the Circle This Week: January 21, 2022

Winter Lock Down: It was a three-for-one end to the shipping season at the Soo Locks on Jan. 16 (last Saturday) when three boats huddled up to go through the Poe Lock...

Around the Circle This Week: January 7, 2022

Operation Taconite, Engage!: The U.S. Coast Guard Sector Sault Ste. Marie has launched its Operation Taconite, one of two Great Lakes ice-breaking task groups for the...

You're Gonna Love Winter

Keith Meyers, who grew up in  Chicago, knew something about winter. But he didn’t know one important thing about himself until he moved to the Keweenaw Peninsula...

Around the Circle This Week: December 17 2021

Lake Effects: An unusual bank of storms this week spawned Minnesota’s first-ever December tornadoes to the south of us and generated gale-force gusts on Lake...

Children's Books 2021

Grandmother’s Pigeon by Louise Erdrich; illus. by Jim LaMarche • University of Minnesota Press ISBN: 978-1-5179-1147-8 • $17.95 Hardcover This book brings a story...

Around the Circle This Week: December 10, 2021

Logo Ideas: Lt. Cmdr. Joel Wright, who will be in charge of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Spar (WLB 206) when the 225-foot Juniper-class buoy tender comes to Duluth in the...