Hello, readers.
Like you and yours, we continue to trudge along through the pandemic. Seizing on the idea that the coronavirus doesn’t transmit well in the great out-of-doors, we have...
At the May 26, 2020 meeting of the Duluth City Council, held remotely via Webex from Duluth City Hall, the Council was tasked with approving Spirit Mountain’s annual budget....
At the Spirit Mountain board meeting on Jan. 16, 2020, Finance Director Jane Kaiser updated the board on the hill’s financial condition. Even with the $235,000 bailout that Spirit...
When Spirit Mountain approached the Duluth City Council on Dec.
12, 2019, asking for a $235,000 bailout, their primary reason given was that a
blizzard had cut short their annual SnoCross...
Duluth’s first tourism tax was established on March 17, 1969, by a vote of the City Council. The new tax attached a three percent surcharge to hotel and motel...
On July 31, 2025, the Monitor received a tip that two Superior police officers were under investigation, for unknown reasons. We immediately emailed Superior...
In 2022, the City of Superior purchased two vacant buildings on Tower Avenue, both of which were in disrepair—one that formerly housed Frankie’s Tavern...