Lake Superior Magazine earned the top Gold Awards – Overall Excellence and Best Overall Design – awards among Minnesota’s  General Interest publications with circulations under 50,000. The magazine earned four Gold, one Silver and one Bronze award. The Excellence Awards are given annually by the Minnesota Magazine & Publications Association.

Particularly pleasing for the magazine was a Gold award for Best Regular Column/Department for its new section “Lake Superior Living” that features in each issue stories about homes, decorating and lifestyles.

The magazine also earned a Gold award for Best Feature Article for “The Buoys Are Back,” a story by Duluth writer David Boe about the Coast Guard cutter Sundew’s spring buoy setting voyage.

In addition to the Gold awards, the magazine earned a Silver award for Best Use of Visuals for the article “Wild Kingdom,” a photographic portfolio of Superior, Wisconsin, photographer Randy Jarvis. In the Best Feature Article category, Lake Superior Magazine won Bronze for “Two Tales of the Dogs” about different aspects of dog sledding by mushers/writers Jason Rice, Duluth, and Jim Ryder, La Pointe, Wisconsin.

Awards were accepted by Editor Konnie LeMay and former Art Director Mathew Pawlak, now production manager with the magazine. The magazine publisher is Cindy Hayden and associate publisher is Paul Hayden. The awards make a great entry into the magazine’s 25th year of publishing, which will be celebrated in 2004.

Lake Superior Magazine, a full-color consumer publication, is printed six times a year in Duluth, Minnesota. The magazine is available by subscription, at newsstands and from the publisher's office at 325 Lake Avenue South, Suite 600, Duluth, Minnesota 55802. For more information, call 888-BIG LAKE (244-5253). www.lakesuperior.com