■ Best Lake Superior Experience – Vista Fleet
■ Best Deck Overlooking Lake Superior – Club One Under (Fitger's)
■ Best Lodging – Holiday Inn Downtown Duluth
■ Best Restaurant – Lyric Kitchen · Bar
■ Best Free Attractions – Enger Tower, Duluth Lakewalk
■ Best Public Golf Course – Nemadji (Superior)
■ Best Sports Attraction – Duluth FC men's soccer
■ Best Retail Shopping – Miller Hill Mall
■ Best Nightlife – Lincoln Park Craft District
■ Best Paid Attraction – Great Lakes Aquarium
It’s a combination of location, hospitality, amenities and smart pricing that makes the Holiday Inn & Suites Duluth-Downtown the first place locals recommend when friends, family, or out-of-town clients ask where they should book.
The Bellville and Baumgarten hires reflect a newsroom making deliberate bets: on audience intelligence, on subject-matter authority, and on leadership that understands journalism doesn’t succeed just because it’s good — it succeeds because it reaches people where they actually live now.
“The Northland is home to me, from my hometown of International Falls to the Iron Range and rural areas of northwestern Wisconsin." -- Maria Vollom
I’m not handing Hermantown a boys hockey state trophy in January. I’ve been around too long for that. But when the Section 7A tournament begins and the pressure turns real, I know who I’m riding with. I’ve seen this movie before. It usually ends with everyone else wondering how they missed it.
Tryon oversees America’s longest-running indoor football league, and that detail matters. Longevity in this sport is not accidental. It is earned. The IFL’s continued stability under his watch has come from a narrow but demanding focus: franchise health, controllable growth and revenue.
