Bob Dylan will return to the place of his birth – Duluth – for a concert in July, his first show in town since 1999, reports the Duluth News Tribune. Tickets went on sale this morning.
+ Our own Bob – managing editor Bob Berg – on Bayfront Festival Park’s 2013 schedule.
+ Dylan by Duluth, a Kickstarter campaign to build a bronze statue of Bob Dylan for the city of Duluth. Sculptor Tom Page hopes to raise $159,000 by August 1.
New SHT Section Completed
The Superior Hiking Trail Association celebrated the completion of the Duluth-to-Two Harbors section of the trail last weekend. Northland’s NewsCenter has video of the ribbon-cutting.
+ Lake Superior rose 9 inches in May, according to the International Lake Superior Board of Control. That’s one of the biggest monthly gains since 1918.
+ Definitely Superior Art Gallery in Thunder Bay has been nominated for a Premier's Award, reports TBNewsWatch.com.
+ Registration for the 2014 American Birkebeiner opened on June 3. The ski race, North America’s largest, will be held on February 22, 2014.
+ Restoration work on the Father Marquette statue was completed this week.
+ From the Ashland Daily Press: The continuing efforts to save at least a portion of the Soo Line Ore Dock.
+ The population is dwindling and deeply inbred. Should Isle Royale’s wolves be saved?
+ WTIP, following up on a Minnesota DNR study: “22 of the [49] newborns already have died, most killed by black bears and wolves.”
+ The Duluth Radisson reopened on Thursday, three months after a waterline break flooded the hotel’s mechanical room, reports the Duluth News Tribune.
Upcoming Events
Friday, June 7 – Sunday, June 9: Take-A-Kid Fishing Weekend in Minnesota.
Saturday, June 8 – Sunday, June 9: Free Fishing Weekend in Michigan.
Wednesday, June 12: Wisconsin's Climate and Energy Future, at the Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center in Ashland. 1 p.m.