5 October 2024
News-Tribune, Oct. 5, 1924
Duluth police officer George Lane has been suspended after allegedly assaulting City Prosecutor Harry E. Weinberg over the $3,000 settlement of an action brought against the officer for clubbing another man over the head, causing hearing loss.
News-Tribune, Oct. 5, 1954
The Duluth Board of Education sold $3 million worth of building bonds and passed a record $5,786,468 budget for the 1954-55 school year. Increased enrollments, expected to top the 19,000 mark this year, are held chiefly responsible for the high budget figure.
News-Tribune & Herald, Oct. 5, 1984
Hours before a federal bankruptcy judge ruled that Tony Wise doesn’t own the American Birkebeiner cross-country ski race, Wise refunded registration fees to 800 skiers, asking them to instead participate in a rival race he has scheduled for the same date. Wise, who created the Birkie, said no one else is capable of running a quality race.
News Tribune, Oct. 5, 2004
The Ramsey rebirth continues in West Duluth as construction begins on 28 high-end townhouses. The units will join 44 similar townhouses built in 1996 and nine new single-family homes built since 1999.
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