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“Foodie” turns passion into charitable business

Jennifer Young is proud to say she found her passion. Lucky her: she gets to bake cookies for a living.
But not just any cookies. These cookies come in the form of wedding cakes, birthday balloons, or even Frankenstein faces, so cute that you almost don’t want to eat them. Almost.
Young is the owner of Cookie [...]

Northlanders protest PolyMet mining

There was a protest outside the Kitchi Gammi Club on Superior Street in Duluth yesterday, Dec. 6, 2011, as PolyMet’s president and CEO, Joe Scipioni, spoke to the Chamber of Commerce at the club. PolyMet is planning to begin mining copper, nickel, cobalt, platinum and gold in the eastern part of Mesabi Range. The protesters [...]

New field brings Miracle League to Duluth

Eddie Gleeson smiled as he stood on the newly finished baseball field in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Duluth, Minn. on a windy, below-freezing November afternoon.
“It’s almost surreal,” he said. “To just see it finally finished and know that you are going to see thousands of children using this facility, it’s massive.”
In the spring, children [...]

Events

Northlanders protest PolyMet mining

There was a protest outside the Kitchi Gammi Club on Superior Street in Duluth yesterday, Dec. 6, 2011, as PolyMet’s president and CEO, Joe Scipioni, spoke to the Chamber of Commerce at the club. PolyMet is planning to begin mining copper, nickel, cobalt, platinum and gold in the eastern part of Mesabi Range. The protesters [...]

People

“Foodie” turns passion into charitable business

Jennifer Young is proud to say she found her passion. Lucky her: she gets to bake cookies for a living.
But not just any cookies. These cookies come in the form of wedding cakes, birthday balloons, or even Frankenstein faces, so cute that you almost don’t want to eat them. Almost.
Young is the owner of Cookie [...]

Places

Three generations keep Dan’s Feed Bin running

Twenty-eight years ago a twelve-year-old boy ran around a new store filled with food for all types of animals. Day after day, month after month and year after year the little boy returned to the feed store. Today, Rob Wicklund works at Dan’s Feed Bin in Superior, Wis.
“It’s a family business,” said Wicklund who lives [...]