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Tag: Arrowhead

Nearly one year after flooding, Duluth zoo CEO to retire

Dan KrakerDan Kraker June 5, 2013, 4:51 PM Jun 5, 2013
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Sam Maida, the CEO who led the Lake Superior Zoo in Duluth during last year’s floods that allowed two seals and a polar bear to temporarily escape, has announced plans to retire.

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Could Duluth’s Mayor be sued for parody of “Gangnam Style”?

Dan KrakerDan Kraker May 31, 2013, 11:01 AM May 31, 2013
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Duluth Mayor Don Ness contributed his interpretation of the internet song and dance hit “Gangnam Style” to a parody video in January. Could that earn him a lawsuit?

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Opening the cabin, an annual summer rite in Minnesota

Dan KrakerDan Kraker May 24, 2013, 12:02 PM May 24, 2013

Opening the cabin for the summer in Minnesota means work — and more memories — for Ely photographer Steve Foss.

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Paddlers honor legendary Minnesota kayaker

Dan KrakerDan Kraker May 22, 2013, 7:34 AM May 22, 2013

Ten years ago this spring, Minnesota kayaking guru and author Jim Rada died of a heart attack while descending Upper Michigan’s Presque Isle River. This May a group of kayakers raced the river in his honor, sprinkling his ashes so he could ride with them one more time.

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Lake Superior “smokes” in the frigid air

Dan KrakerDan Kraker January 24, 2013, 11:18 AM Jan 24, 2013

Thick wisps of steam have been rising from the surface of Lake Superior over the last several days of sub-zero temperatures. An explanation of what causes it, and why there’s not more ice, when the temperatures are so cold.

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Number of wolves killed in MN and WI show different approaches to hunt

Dan KrakerDan Kraker December 5, 2012, 4:57 PM Dec 5, 2012

Several weeks in to the inaugural managed hunt seasons in Minnesota and Wisconsin, hunters have killed about 300 wolves; about 200 in Minnesota. But with a much smaller wolf population in Wisconsin, hunters there have killed a higher percentage of the state’s wolves.

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After truck protest, candidates voice support for loggers

Dan KrakerDan Kraker September 28, 2012, 10:01 AM Sep 28, 2012

When more than 60 loggers drove their loaded rigs through downtown Duluth to protest weight limits on interstate highways, several candidates for Congress reacted.

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Photos: Snow falls early in the Arrowhead

Michael OlsonMichael Olson September 22, 2012, 9:48 AM Sep 22, 2012

Earliest snowfall in 17 years coats the Duluth area overnight

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8th District DFL contest heads to wire

David CazaresDavid Cazares July 30, 2012, 10:48 AM Jul 30, 2012

Aiming to recover from former U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar’s stunning defeat in the 2010 elections that sent a wave of Republican freshman to the House of Representatives, Democrats will soon select one of three challengers to U.S. Rep. Chip Cravaack.

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Mesabi Nugget workers say no to union

Michael OlsonMichael Olson June 27, 2012, 4:36 PM Jun 27, 2012

An effort to unionize workers at the Mesabi Nugget plant near Aurora, Minn. failed last week. “It’s a big deal,” Iron Range author and blogger Aaron Brown tells MPR News editor Michael Olson.

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