News Tribune, Nov. 20, 1974
* The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency voted 5-4 yesterday to hold hearings on issuing a waste-
disposal permit to Amex Exploration Inc. Amex, a prospecting firm, intends to sink a 1,700-foot shaft near Babbitt to explore for copper-nickel deposits.
* Keith “Huffer” Christiansen of Duluth announced yesterday his signing as a player-coach with the Geneva team in Switzerland’s top amateur hockey league. Christiansen, a former All-American at UMD, was twice named the Bulldogs’ most valuable player.
News Tribune, Nov. 20, 1994
* New information suggests that some of the barrels dumped in Lake Superior by Honeywell and 3M from 1957 to 1962 could contain radioactive material. So far, nine of the 1,457 barrels have been recovered and no radioactive contamination was detected.
* Now in its fifth year, the annual free Thanksgiving feast at Superior’s Library and Zona Rosa restaurants has grown into a community-wide celebration of goodwill. Dan Cohen, co-owner of the restaurants, helped start the first free dinner in 1990.
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