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Twin Ports Vie for
Google Test
 The
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
 The
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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