Residents concerned about City of Duluth’s response to blight reports
The City of Duluth website offers a Blight Complaint Form for citizens to report illegal dumping, abandoned vehicles, hoarding, and other solid waste concerns. The Monitor regularly receives communications...
Duluth man charged with sexually assaulting incapacitated woman
On Sept. 26, 2024, a 22-year-old woman called 911 to report that she had woken up naked and could not remember what had happened the night before. When she...
As Spirit Mountain pays off “wildly popular” alpine coaster, personal-injury lawsuit lingers
On Jan. 22, 2025, Spirit Mountain made their final lease payment on the alpine coaster, concluding a 15-year payment plan which commenced in 2010. The recreation area now owns...
City to seek private companies to operate Spirit Mountain
At the monthly meeting of Spirit Mountain’s board of directors on Jan. 28, 2025, the City of Duluth’s liaison to the board, Jim Filby Williams, informed the board that...
6th Avenue East extension creates access problems for Dougherty Funeral Home
As part of the ongoing street and utility projects surrounding the Essentia Health medical campus, the City of Duluth is extending 6th Avenue East down to First Street. The...
Report concludes it’s neither illegal nor improper for mayor’s girlfriend to manage city business
In October, when the Monitor learned that the City of Duluth was paying a consultant up to $10,000 to determine whether Mayor Roger Reinert had done anything wrong by...
