News Tribune, Jan. 1, 1924
Commissioner Leonidas Merritt spoke out against the idea of vacating 47th and 48th Avenue West near the harbor, promising to “fight this vacation proposition to the last ditch.”
News Tribune, Jan. 1, 1954
A Duluth police radio dispatcher was clearly picked up over the air by a dispatcher in Pueblo, Colorado, due to freak weather conditions. After determining that neither was contacting the other on business, they exchanged New Year’s greetings.
News Tribune & Herald, Jan. 1, 1984
Wayne Nurmi, of Two Harbors, operates what he says is the only computerized system of getting puppies and kittens from breeders on one side of the country to pet stores on the other. Two pet industry magazines concur.
News Tribune, Jan. 1, 2004
The DNT’s list of people to watch in 2004 includes Mayor-elect Herb Bergson, WLSSD director Kurt Soderberg, real estate developer Sam Cave, Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial Committee co-chair Catherine Ostos, and more.
Barrett Chase has been web editor for the News Tribune since 2015. You can email him at bchase@duluthnews.com or call him at 218-723-5310.
