Konnie LeMay

Around the Circle This Week: December 3, 2021

Lock Out: The MacArthur Lock (in photo) is closing down early this season for “critical maintenance,” the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced this week....

Festival of Sail on Its Way for 2022

The tall-masted ships will be back on Lake Superior next year with an extended stop in Two Harbors. The 2022 edition of Festival of Sail Lake Superior from Aug. 4-7 will...

Around the Circle This Week: November 26, 2021

Orehenge: Sure England has its Stonehenge, but Marquette has its Orehenge, when the sun and the ore dock at Marquette’s lower harbor line up a few times each year....

Around the Circle This Week: November 19, 2021

Over the Top: Photographer Paul Sundberg up in Grand Marais, Minn., documented a storm on Minnesota’s North Shore on Nov. 11. Says Paul in his Photo of the Week...

Around the Circle This Week: November 12, 2021

Through the Sky Darkly: With lots more hours of night, we have many more opportunities to wonder at the night sky. Dark Sky projects and celebrations have cropped up...

Around the Circle This Week: April 12, 2019

Stormy Weather: Winds and snow pummeled northeastern Minnesota Thursday into this morning with Hill City, about 85 miles west/northwest of Duluth, winning the regional...

The Billion-Year-Old Split

Lake Superior Was Almost an Ocean, Not Just a Sweetwater Sea. Back 1.1 billion years ago, the earth began a shimmy, shake and split along a 1,800-mile arch that looked...

Around the Circle This Week: April 5, 2019

Cut Ribbon? Check: The new hospital in Marquette got one step closer to officially opening for patients in early June, when the community celebrated with a ribbon...

Around the Circle This Week: March 29, 2019

Ice Breaker: The Canadian Coast Guard decided ice breaking was a great ice breaker to encourage new recruits. According to a story by CBC News, the CCG is using a video...

Around the Circle This Week: March 22, 2019

Look Out, Ice: Wednesday’s arrival of two U.S. Coast Guard Cutters – our Twin Ports-based Alder (black hull) and the beefy ice-breaker...