Lake Superior Magazine

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...

Familiar Places, Fresh Faces … New Owners at Favorite Spaces

When taking a spin around the Lake to check in with longtime businesses that have changed ownership this past year or so, a common thread emerges: The more things...

Rural Idyllic: Some of the Best Marriages May Be Born in a Barn

Jill and Kirk Clemmer are a dangerous match. She has exquisite taste and big ideas. He has a hammer and nails and knows how to use them. So, when their daughter Amanda...

Around the Circle This Week: March 8, 2019

Rescuing the Rescuers: Many people and organizations are coming together to help the La Pointe Fire Department and ambulance service after it burned to the ground...

Around the Circle This Week: February 15, 2019

Very Nice Ice: Artist Ellen Van Laar of ArtsAdventure, whose studio is near Coppermine Point, 85 kilometres north of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, notes on her Facebook...