Bygones: Huge storm hit Northland in 1983

29 November 2023

News Tribune, Nov. 29, 1923

Duluth Commissioner Leonidas Merritt introduced a resolution to the City Council providing for the completion of a new City Hall “without delay.” The resolution passed after Merritt told the council: “If this fails today, I’ll bring it up tomorrow, day after tomorrow, and every day until it comes through.”

News Tribune, Nov. 29, 1953

Three Northlanders died, and eight others were injured in a single day as a result of hunting, traffic and industrial accidents, including a man crushed to death by a coke oven door at U.S. Steel in Morgan Park.

News Tribune, Nov. 29, 1983

Except for emergency workers and snowplow and bus drivers, not many Duluthians made it to work as the second winter storm in a week hammered the Northland, clogging roads and forcing most schools and offices to close.

News Tribune, Nov. 29, 2003

Duluth City Councilor Greg Gilbert has introduced an amendment to the city’s smoking ban that could eliminate smoking in bars. About a dozen bars in the city are currently not covered by the ban.

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