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• Terry Matier becomes Big Top Chautauqua’s new executive director

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  BAYFIELD – The Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua board of directors has named Terry Matier the performing arts organization’s next executive director. Matier, formerly Terry Meyer, has served as program director with Big Top Chautauqua since 2001, and served as interim executive director in 2008. Big Top Chautauqua will celebrate its 25th [...]

  Posted: December 05, 2009, 6:00pm EST
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• Lake Superior’s ancient past

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  MARQUETTE, Mich. (AP) Thousands of years of human activity along the Upper Peninsula’s Lake Superior shoreline have come into sharper focus after three years of research. Scientists from Northern Michigan University’s geography department recently completed a project at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore that located 23 new archaeological sites. Full Story Posted in [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:02am EST
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• Solutions for Ashland, Twin Ports harbor bacteria problems

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  DULUTH (WPR) Researchers say they’ve solved part of the mystery of the bacteria that’s eating steel docks in Lake Superior ports: the biological organism apparently is not from outer space. Not that there’s anything funny about the damage this bacteria is causing to several Lake Superior ports. Duluth-Superior has 14 miles [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 5:02am EST
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• Missing kayaker Douglas Winter committed suicide on Lake Superior

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  TWO HARBORS — Douglas Winter, the Lake Superior kayaker whose body was found washed ashore Nov. 5 just north of Two Harbors, committed suicide, his death certificate states. The St. Louis County Medical Examiner’s Office, which performed an autopsy in Hibbing, has officially declared that Winter suffered a “self-inflicted gunshot wound to [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:02am EST
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• Warmer, windier Lake Superior?

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  New paper out of the U-W and University of Minnesota-Duluth.

  A wide temperature differential between water and air makes for a more stable atmosphere with calmer winds over the relatively cold water. However, as warming water closes the gap, as in Lake Superior's case, the atmosphere gets more turbulent.

  "You get more powerful winds," [...]

  Posted: November 15, 2009, 12:52pm EST
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• Effort to save the old freighters is underway

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  A relative of a crewmember of the sunken ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald is on a mission to save other ships that were out on the lake that night 34 years ago. On Nov. 10, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald foundered on Lake Superior, taking the lives of all of its crew of [...]

  Posted: November 12, 2009, 9:00am EST
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• The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Nov 10 1975

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  Posted in Lake Superior, Video Tagged: Edmund Fitzgerald [...]

  Posted: November 10, 2009, 7:25pm EST
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• Body of missing kayaker, Douglas R. Winter washes ashore in Beaver Bay

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  Duluth, Minn. — Authorities say a body found Thursday afternoon on the north shore of Lake Superior was that of a missing kayaker and former Milwaukee school teacher. The medical examiner confirmed that the body is that of 48-year-old Douglas R. Winter, Lake County Sheriff Carey Johnson said Friday. The official [...]

  Posted: November 08, 2009, 5:58am EST
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• Lake Superior Wave Map – Nov 7 2009

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  Posted in Lake Superior Tagged: Lake Superior Wave Height Map [...]

  Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:59am EST
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• Shipwreck presentation in Washburn

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  The Washburn Public Library will host a presentation and discussion about Lake Superior shipwrecks 7 p.m. Thursday, November 12. DVDs will be available for purchase. Snacks and refreshments will be served. Anyone needing special assistance to attend the program should contact the library 24 hours prior to the start. The program [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:58pm EST
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• Lake Superior Wave Height Map – Nov 6 2009

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  Posted in Lake Superior Tagged: Lake Superior Wave Height Map [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:58am EST
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