Lake County pauses to remember veterans on Memorial Day
This morning, veterans and community volunteers will be participating in an annual ritual of remembrance and honor—placing small American flags near the graves of over 1,000 service men and women throughout Lake County.
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Warm water might already be changing the makeup and distribution of fish in Lake Superior, a new study suggests.
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The rainy weather on Monday kept Anne Wiszowaty’s second-grade class indoors—an anomaly, she said. The class typically gets outside at least once a day.
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After a lung transplant and three months at a hospital in Pittsburgh, Lake County Commissioner Paul Bergman returned to Two Harbors at the end of April, just in time to experience some late-season snow storms.
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A decade-old Two Harbors business has found a new home—in a century-old building.
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