Heavy rains, and subsequent flooding, battered the Eastern Upper Peninsula this week. Scott Brand for Soo Evening News:
While most Eastern Upper Peninsula residents escaped the overnight storm virtually unscathed or with mild inconvenience, the residents of Sugar Island will long remember the night as the one that washed their roads away.
+ In Wawa, Ontario: “Rain continues to wreak damage at Northern Lights,” where flooding caused extensive damage last fall.
Superior Water
Duluth has the best drinking water in Minnesota, according to judges in an annual taste test. (The Duluth-based staff of Lake Superior Magazine never had any doubt.) The Duluth News Tribune has the story.
New U.P. Trails
John Pepin for the Mining Journal:
A new 70-mile Ottawa Eastern Connector off-road vehicle route opened recently in the western Upper Peninsula, providing an important link for three established ORV trail routes in the area.
+ A Douglas County quarantine, issued after the emerald ash borer was discovered last month in Superior, Wisconsin, has hobbled the timber business in the North Woods, reports Minnesota Public Radio’s Dan Kraker.
+ The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has canceled its moose hunt, reports the Duluth News Tribune. The Minnesota DNR did the same over the winter because of the species’ rapid decline.
+ The Mining Journal recaps the fifth annual U.P. Fall Beer Festival in Marquette, where 53 brewers and thousands of people converged last weekend.
+ This year’s final batch of summer photos from Paul Sundberg.
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