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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...

Ripped at Shooter’s Saloon in 2002

[Editor’s note: For this week’s essay we’ve once again pulled out a relic from the archive of Slim Goodbuzz, who served as Duluth’s “booze connoisseur” from...

Seeking information on late local musician Lew Orsoni

I recently opened up an old binder of burned CDs and came across a much loved recording I had forgotten about attributed to Lew Orsoni. It sounds like a live...

Resko, Source: shoretoship https://www.shipspotting.com/photos/gallery?user=147187

First Saltie Arrives in Twin Ports

First Saltie: The official first saltie – the Resko – arrived under the Aerial Lift Bridge in Duluth on Wed., April 13, logging in at 6:32;34 p.m.,...

Postcard from the Opening of Navigation Season

This undated postcard shows a freighter entering the Duluth Shipping Canal at some point in the early 1900s. The caption on the back of the card reads: Opening of...

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...

Dawn Turchi: Jeff Frey 218-722-6630 freyphoto@me.com

Dawn Turchi Joins Essentia Health St. Mary’s-Superior Clinic

Dawn Turchi, a licensed independent social worker specializing in behavioral health, has joined the Essentia Health St. Mary’s-Superior Clinic.  “I share the...

Selective Focus: Emily Koch

Left: Photograph of Emily Koch. Right: “Self Portrait” 20×28. Oil on wood panel. Emily Koch is a surrealist painter from Duluth. She studied fine art at the...

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...