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Past articles by Adelie:

Northlandia: Snow, ski records once flew in Fond du Lac

Few remnants of the Fond du Lac Winter Sports Center remain today. → Read More

Northlandia: The story of Eight Bridges Road (or is it Nine?)

Like Skyline Parkway itself, the tale of Seven Bridges Road is disjointed. → Read More

Northlandia: Gnesen is not a question of ‘who’ but ‘where’

Various sources give various dates for Gnesen Township’s founding, but it was in the 1860s and 1870s that Polish settlers came to the area. → Read More

Northlandia: Who was Howard and where was his mill?

"Three bits of road, two questionable fires and one family's business. The Old Howard Mill Road mostly has been lost to history, but there's still a story to tell." → Read More

Northlandia: The busy little corner stop

Consider this your own personal peek inside the art deco building on the corner of Superior Street and Garfield Avenue. We at Northlandia are delighted to oblige. → Read More

Northlandia: Where does Duluth's snow go?

Duluth removes between 50,000 and 100,000 cubic yards of snow from the city's busier streets each year. That snow has to go somewhere — and no, it's not dumped into Lake Superior. → Read More

Northlandia: Duluth's 'Forgotten Park'

Technically part of Central Park, this baseball field and basketball/tennis court off Piedmont Avenue have been abandoned for many years. → Read More

Northlandia: How now 'Zenith City'?

Duluth's esteemed nickname came from a true optimist during a speech for a handful of early residents a century and a half ago. → Read More

Bonding proposal includes money for LSC, UMD

Gov. Tim Walz's bonding money request includes nearly $1 million in pre-design funding to move the school's manufacturing programs from downtown Duluth back to the main campus, while UMD would get more than $15 million for building renovations and ongoing infrastructure maintenance. → Read More

Northlandia: Skywalk with me

Let's take a look at some of your responses from last week's column about the first skywalk in Duluth. → Read More

Northlandia: Which is Duluth's first skywalk?

Well, it depends on how you define 'skywalk.' There's one official answer — and possibly countless unofficial ones. → Read More

Northlandia: What exactly is lake-effect snow?

We've all heard about it. But what causes it? (Hint: It's all about the wind.) → Read More

2 administrators leaving UW-Superior; offices to be restructured

Brenda Harms, interim vice chancellor for Enrollment Management, and Jerel Benton, director of the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, will depart in January. As a result, several school offices related to enrollment and retention will be folded into a new Office of Student Success. → Read More

St. Scholastica announces $3.9 million in nursing school grants

The $2.79 million grant from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration and the $1.125 million grant from the St. Paul-based Manitou Fund respectively are the largest public and private grants in the school's history. → Read More

Northlandia: Help us with a holiday memory?

Sue remembers visiting a series of basement holiday scenes complete with a train or golf cart at a downtown Duluth department store when she was young. Try as I might, however, I can't find evidence of such a place. Can you help us rekindle this holiday story? → Read More

Case connected to Duluth lynchings up for review

Max Mason, 21, was convicted in 1920 of assaulting a young Duluth woman who claimed to have been assaulted by six black circus workers on June 14 of that year. The accusation led to the most infamous day in Duluth's history, when three black men were lynched by a mob of up to several thousand residents. → Read More

Northlandia: What if the Lift Bridge broke while raised?

You may recall that the Aerial Lift Bridge was closed for three days last week — weighed down by ice buildup. It created problems for shipping traffic, but cars could cross between de-icing sessions. But what if the deck had been in the 'up' position? → Read More

5-8 inches of snow expected overnight in Duluth; nearly a foot along South Shore

Douglas, Bayfield, Ashland and Iron counties are under a winter storm warning until 6 p.m. Monday, with most of Northeastern Minnesota under a winter weather advisory. Travel could become difficult Monday morning amid slippery roads, blustery winds and reduced visibility. → Read More

UMD details budget trims, will merge arts colleges

Amid growing costs and declining enrollment, the university is cutting $5.2 million across all colleges and departments in an effort to erase a recurring "structural imbalance," or deficit. As part of the plan, the school's College of Liberal Arts and School of Fine Arts will combine next summer. → Read More

No prison time for massage parlor owners accused of sex trafficking

Shuangyan Yang, 49, pleaded guilty Tuesday to one felony count of racketeering, while her husband, Matthew Shykes, 59, pleaded guilty to one felony count of failing to pay taxes. → Read More