Bygones for Nov. 8

By news@duluthnewstribune.com

November 07, 2013 at 11:00 PM

News Tribune, Nov. 8, 1973

More than 2,400 people came to the Duluth Arena last night to hear Dr. Leighton Ford speak as part of the Twin Ports Reachout program. Dr. Ford, a popular evangelist and an associate of Billy Graham, is speaking nightly this week.

The Indianhead Vocational Technical and Adult Educational District is negotiating purchase of 28 acres of land in Superior for construction of a

$1.8 million campus. The site is on the edge of the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Superior.

News Tribune, Nov. 8, 1993

Two Biwabik schools, the Bray Elementary School and the V. L. Reishus Intermediate School, were vandalized over the weekend, resulting in about $35,000 in damage. School officials cancelled classes today for all kindergarten through 12th-grade students in the Mesabi East district.

Nancy M. Sorenson, 107, died this weekend in the Carlton Nursing Home. Mrs. Sorenson, a Cloquet native, had appeared on the "Today" show with weatherman Willard Scott after she reached 100 years and had received birthday cards from Presidents Carter and Reagan. Researched by the Reference & Information staff at the Duluth Public Library. Call (218) 730-4200/option 5 or click on Ask Us at www.duluth.lib.mn.us .

Bygones for Nov. 8

News Tribune, Nov. 8, 1973 More than 2,400 people came to the Duluth Arena last night to hear Dr. Leighton Ford speak as part of the Twin Ports Reachout program. Dr. Ford, a popular evangelist and an associate of Billy Graham, is speaking nightly...