Friday, Sept. 1 – at Proctor, 6 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 8 – at Cloquet, 7 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 15 – North Branch, 7 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 22 – Grand Rapids, 7 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 29 – at Rock Ridge, 7 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 6 – at Duluth East, 6 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 13 – Esko, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 18 – Denfeld, 7 p.m.
Note: All home games at Corey Veech Field listed in boldface
Hermantown earned Academic All-State recognitions in Class 4A football this week, collecting a Silver Award for team grade-point average while senior Bode Madill was named an individual Academic All-State selection. The Hawks posted a 3.18 team GPA, placing them in the Minnesota Football Coaches Association’s Silver tier for
Martin Sleen named All-Minnesota, Hawks expected to battle Hibbing-Chisholm in 7A hockey
Hermantown’s 2025 football season came full circle Friday night — ending against the same team that handed the Hawks their first loss of the fall. Grand Rapids, physical and efficient from the start, again proved too much, defeating Hermantown 41-0 in the Section 7, Class 4A championship game to end
Hermantown led 14-8 at halftime and 28-16 after three quarters before Sleen’s third touchdown in the fourth extended the margin to 35-20.
What happens next at the Minnesota Star Tribune may become one of the clearest signals yet about how major regional journalism survives the next generation in America. Not as a dying factory. Not as a billionaire toy. But as an institution Minnesota ultimately may decide is still worth protecting.
Trump challenged the structure itself. To Trump supporters, he represented long-overdue rebellion against elite management of the country. To his critics, he represented a direct threat to democratic norms, constitutional stability and civic decency.
Tim Meyer is a Duluth architect and community builder. Reach him at tim.meyer@meyergroupduluth.com I attended last week’s public event on the Lester Park Golf Course Redevelopment, and noticeably absent was golf. No golf in any of the three options presented. I think in a Land Use
Duluth residents simply need this summer emotionally. They need concerts at Bayfront and families along the Lakewalk. They need baseball games, festivals and tourists asking directions. They need reminders that life cannot become an endless cycle of bills, politics, inflation, anxiety and survival.
