Bygones for Sept. 3

By news@duluthnewstribune.com

September 02, 2012 at 11:00 PM

Sept. 3, 1972, News Tribune

A strike by AFL-CIO Local 433 of the Woodworkers of America has idled the 52 employees at Boise Cascade's Manilla Mill in Big Falls. Two negotiation sessions had been held before the strike, officials said yesterday.

Mrs. Mabel Grace Merritt, 97, a member of the pioneer Merritt family, died this weekend in a Duluth nursing home. Mrs. Merritt's husband was the late Lon C. Merritt, the son of Lucien F. Merritt, one of the Seven Iron Men.

Sept. 3, 1992, News Tribune

Work is continuing in efforts to restore a section of Amity Creek that was damaged last May by city of Duluth employees excavating along its banks. The city, the DNR and the Boy Scouts have been working to restore the creek.

Members of the Duluth Citizens Utility Board Alliance have turned in the required 1,683 signatures to put a trash-rate-control amendment on the November ballot. The City Clerk's office will count and verify the petition signatures and report to the Charter Commission.

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 .