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Senior Dining (Feb. 26-March 5)
Arrowhead Senior Nutrition menu: Friday, Feb. 26 Boiled Dinner, frosted cake Sat-Sun, Feb. 27-28 Frozen meals available Monday, March 1 Glazed ham balls, fresh fruit Tuesday, March 2 Roast pork dinner, strawberry cheesecake cup Wednesday, March 3... Full story
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Sunday, Feb. 28 Music with Two for the Road 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 28 at the Cloquet VFW. 218-210-7793 or 879-5717. Tuesday, March 2 Antique appraisals with Steve Wesely of Cresent Auctioneering 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 2 at the Fires of 1918 Museum,... Full story
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This week in history
Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this week. Sept. 18 1902 Aurelia Wheeldin, one of the earliest female African American boxers, is born in Minnesota. She would study music at Macalester...
This week in history
Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this week. Sept. 11 1971 The first Minnesota Renaissance Festival opens at Lake Grace in Jonathan. One of the largest of its kind, the festival now operates from a permanent encampment near Shakopee. The...
This week in history
Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this week. Sept. 4 1908 A forest fire burns Chisholm, causing millions of dollars in damage and leaving 6,000 homeless. 1939 Duluth’s Incline Railway makes its final trip. Built in 1891 for $400,000, it...
This week in local history
Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this week. Aug. 7 1915 Towed by the Ottumwa Belle, the last log raft passes from Minnesota and into Iowa. It was the last of just two runs on the river for the season. The sawmills along the river soon...
This week in local history
Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this week. July 24 1998 Pitcher Ila Borders of the Duluth-Superior Dukes is the first woman to win a men’s regular season professional baseball game. . July 25 1990 The U.S. Senate votes 96-0 to...
This week in local history
The Carlton County Historical Society recently posted a photo on Facebook of past Lumberjack Days wood medallion buttons in its collection. The annual event began in the late 1970s and eventually...
This week in state history
Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this week. July 11 1999 Duluth’s state representative Willard Munger dies of liver cancer at age 88. He had served in the Minnesota House since 1955 and was known as Mr. Environment for his reputation...
This week in state history
Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this week. June 12 1946 The Minnesota Historical Society accepts a grant from the Weyerhaeuser family to establish the Forest Products History Foundation....
This week in state history
Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this week. May 8 1910 Governor Adolf O. Eberhart declares Minnesota's first Mother's Day holiday. 1924 Ships idled in ice in Duluth's harbor begin to...
This week in state history
Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this week. April 24 1956 The first baseball game is played at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington. The Wichita Braves beat the Minneapolis Millers, 5-3....
This week in state history
Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this week. April 3 1970 A former Greyhound bus station in Minneapolis opens its doors as a music club, the Depot. Twelve years later it would be renamed...
This week in state history
Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this week. March 27 1905 The Aerial Bridge, spanning the Duluth shipping canal, carries its first passengers across the harbor inside a carriage suspended from the bridge framework. The system would be...
This week in state history
Historic Minnesota events with anniversaries this week. March 14 1919 Humorist Max Shulman is born in St. Paul. An author and Hollywood screenwriter, he is best remembered for creating the character Dobie Gillis. Shulman died in 1988. March 15 1927...
