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Twin Ports Vie for Google Test
Duluth's SpeedyThe Twin Ports of Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin, are partnering on a sales pitch to Google to become a test community for an ultra-high speed fiber optic broadband network. Mayors Don Ness of Duluth and Dave Ross of Superior have turned the Google Twin Ports Fiber Initiative into a campaign encouraging local residents to nominate Duluth/Superior on the Web page www.googletwinports.com. More …
Award Presented to The Great Waters in Marquette
The Great Waters program received the Lake Superior Magazine 2009 Achievement Award Thursday (Oct. 15, 2009) in the boardroom of the Landmark Inn in Marquette. [with picture]  More…
SPJ Page One Awards Presented to Recipients
The first ever Society of Professional Journalists Page One Awards to be won by Lake Superior Magazine were presented on Friday, June 5, 2009, by editor Konnie LeMay to contributing writer Ann Treacy and the magazine’s art director Randy Bauer [with photo].  More…
Crossing the Border: the New Rules
If you’re taking a trip into Canada, you’ll need to know a few things about passports.  More…
Sivertson Wins Top Art Award at NEMBA
NEMBA Art & Photography AwardThe Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards for work published in 2008 were presented at the University of Minnesota Duluth Sunday afternoon, May 17. Howard Sivertson took home the top prize in the Art & Photography Category with his book Driftwood.  More…
Lake Superior in New 7 Natural Wonders Competition
Lake Superior may be declared one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature … given enough votes. The Big Lake is competing with 260 other national and multinational nominees in the New 7 Wonders of Nature global poll.   More…
A Tale of Pasties Earns International Gold
The region’s heritage of pasty making earned thumbs up from an international panel of judges and translated into gold for Lake Superior Magazine. The magazine’s publishers and editors just returned from the coastal province of Nova Scotia with their award-winning catch: A Gold Medal for a Cultural Feature from the International Regional Magazine Association.   More…
Agate the Moose Wins Big!
Booksellers across the Midwest voted to give a special honor to a book written, illustrated and published in this region. OnMonday, August 11, the Midwest Booksellers Association announced that Agate: What Good Is a Moose? won Best Children’s Picture Book of 2008 in its Choice Awards.   More…
Publisher’s Blog
Aboard the Ranger III, we talk about the 50th anniversary of the Isle Royale Wolf/Moose Study. [with pictures]    More…
LSM Exclusive: Dispatch from the Pride
Anne Lewis provides accounts from aboard ship as the Pride of Baltimore II travels across Lake Superior to the Duluth Maritime Festival. [with pictures]     More…
8 Onboard: All Great Lakes States OK Water Compact
All eight states bordering the Great Lakes have now approved an agreement that would ban most diversions of water from the lakes. The last two states to formally ratify the deal were Pennsylvania and Michigan, in the second week of July.    More…
Two Awards in One Week
“For a self-conscious moose, it’s a start!” said Joy Morgan Dey, quoting her own book after it took the award for Best Children’s Literature at the Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards (NEMBA). The 20th annual awards were given Sunday evening at University of Minnesota Duluth’s Weber Music Hall.    More…
Local Children’s Book Wins Highest MIPA Honors
A local book took a top award Wednesday night at the Midwest Independent Publishers Association (MIPA) event in St. Paul.   Agate: What Good Is a Moose? by Joy Morgan Dey and Nikki Johnson and published by Lake Superior Port Cities Inc. was awarded “Best Children’s Picture Book at the association’s 18th  annual awards ceremony.    More…
Duluth Hosts “Leatherheads” Stars During Whistle Stop Tour
George Clooney’s new movie “Leatherheads” is the story of the beginnings of the National Football League, which in actually started in 1920s when the Duluth (Minnesota) Eskimos became the first of the officially franchised teams. In the movie, the Eskimos are called the Bulldogs, and like their namesake, the Bulldogs bulldogged their way to wins with one rule in mind: “There are no rules.”  [with pictures]  More…
Agate: What Good Is a Moose? Ranks #1 on National List
A small, independent moose made the top of an important national booksellers list this month. The American Booksellers Association released its Winter 2007-2008 Book Sense Children’s Picks list in its November 15 issue of Bookselling This Week.   More…
Local Book Wins National Awards
A children’s book by a local author and a local illustrator earned Silver and Bronze awards in a first-time national children’s book competition.   More…
Isle Royale National Park Prohibits Untreated Ballast Water Release
Isle Royale National Park Superintendent, Phyllis Green, announced emergency restrictions for the Lake Superior waters within Isle Royale National Park.   More…
Heritage Center dedicated at National Monument
The fulfillment of nearly a 50-year-old promise came to fruition Friday, August 10, 2007, with the grand opening of the Grand Portage National Monument’s Heritage Center. [with pictures]    More…
Dr. Julius F. Wolff Jr. Dies at 89
Dr. Julius F. Wolff, widely viewed as the top expert on Lake Superior shipwrecks, died Friday, July 13, 2007, in Duluth. “Julius Wolff was the dean of Lake Superior shipwreck historians,” says Frederick Stonehouse, a fellow maritime historian and author who lives in Marquette. [with picture]    More…
Sleeping Giant wins popular vote, but doesn’t make the cut for Seven Wonders of Canada
The Sleeping Giant in Thunder Bay, Ontario, won the popular vote in the CBC’s Seven Wonders of Canada campaign by a wide margin. But the three judges, who had to weight several criteria, didn’t name it among the final seven.    More…
Bridging the Straits (Michigan History)
As early as the 1880s, Michiganians talked about building a bridge across the Straits of Mackinac. When the Grand Hotel opened on Mackinac Island in 1888, railroad and shipping magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, a member of the hotel’s board of directors, declared, “What we need is a bridge across the Straits.” [with picture]    More…
Cindy Hayden Named Business Person of the Year
The president and co-publisher of Lake Superior Port Cities Inc., Cindy Marshall Hayden, was honored as the “Business Person of the Year” at the 15th Annual Joel Labovitz Entrepreneurial Success Awards in Duluth. [with picture] More…
The Most Popular Sight
What unique architectural structure have most Great Lakes sightseers seen, either from a boat or from land? More…
Chairman of Lake Superior Port Cities Dies
James R. Marshall, co-owner and chairman of Lake Superior Port Cities Inc., publishers of Lake Superior Magazine, died on Sunday, September 17, 2006, in Duluth, Minnesota. More…
The Island Kingdom of James Strang (Michigan History)
James Jesse Strang possessed grand visions. Born in New York in 1813, he came to Wisconsin in 1843. It was there that he had an opportunity to reach his lofty goals of becoming another Caesar or Napoleon. More…
The Gathering Place (Michigan History)
Today, Sault Ste. Marie is a pretty town located along the Marys River. It has many restaurants, boat tours and gift shops, but as Michigan’s oldest settlement, it has a long history. More…
A Boy at Mackinac (Michigan History)
The son of a military surgeon, Harold Corbusier lived on Mackinac Island from age 10 to 12, and again when he was 19. As a boy he spent his free time sailing, fishing, ice skating and exploring the island. He kept a journal about his daily activities. More…
Isle Royale, A Profile (Michigan History)
Isle Royale is one of the largest islands in the Great Lakes. Located in the northwest corner of Lake Superior, Isle Royale is actually an archipelago (a series of islands). [with pictures] More…
LSM Wins Lifetime Achievement Award
The owners of Lake Superior Magazine - James R. Marshall, Cindy Marshall Hayden and Paul Hayden – received a Lifetime Achievement Award in the prestigious Joel Labovitz Entrepreneurial Success Awards in Duluth, Minnesota, on Wednesday, May 17. [with picture] More…
U.P. Makes Top 10 Summer Destinations
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has made a Top 10 destination list not just of Michigan, not just of the United States, but of the whole world. The U.P. is being touted as a Top 10 summer destination by ShermansTravel.com. More…
Ash firewood burning banned at Lakeshore
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore has banned ash firewood to prevent the spread of emerald ash borer. The emerald ash borer is a small, exotic wood-boring beetle discovered in southeast Michigan in summer 2002. More…
Lake Superior Magazine Makes Chicago Tribune’s Top 50
Lake Superior Magazine rubbed pages with the likes of the New Yorker, National Geographic, Atlantic Monthly, Newsweek, Time and Vanity Fair on the 50 Best Magazines 2005 list published today, June 23, in the Chicago Tribune’s Tempo section. More…
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