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Howie: Hermantown football has the enthusiasm. Now comes the evidence.

Mike Zagelmeyer has coached enough football to recognize the difference between a productive August and a successful November. He likes what he has seen from Hermantown through the opening week of preseason practice, but he also understands that effort, conditioning and enthusiasm have yet to win the Hawks a game.

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Howie: West Duluth doesn’t need another plan. It needs its turn.

West Duluth does not need another glossy redevelopment study, another round of listening sessions or another ambitious rendering that never advances beyond City Hall. It needs investment that residents can see, infrastructure that works, housing people can afford and a city government willing to treat Spirit Valley as essential to

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50-Yard Football: The IFL’s most important work in Tucson happened before kickoff

The most important result of the Indoor Football League’s championship weekend was settled before the Arizona Rattlers and Green Bay Blizzard took the field Sunday night in Tucson. Arizona defeated Green Bay 62-51 to win its second IFL championship in three seasons, and Max Meylor completed a remarkable

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Construction to begin Aug. 24 on 40th Avenue West in Duluth
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Construction to begin Aug. 24 on 40th Avenue West in Duluth

St. Louis County Public Works and the city of Duluth are partnering on the project, which will eventually reconstruct nearly a half-mile of 40th Avenue West and add a mini roundabout at Grand Avenue. The city also will replace utilities beneath 40th Avenue West as part of the project.

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Howie: Duluth Schools’ credit downgrade is serious

Howie: Duluth Schools’ credit downgrade is serious

Duluth does not have one governmentwide financial crisis. It has a school district in a precarious position and a city government that is beginning to encounter some of the same cost-versus-revenue pressures.

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Max Plante’s Hobey season changed everything for the Bulldogs

Max Plante’s Hobey season changed everything for the Bulldogs

Plante has already given UMD a great season, another Hobey and a place back among the country’s serious programs. What he has not yet delivered is the one thing that would separate his Bulldogs career from nearly every other individual masterpiece.

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