Some Duluth students walk in bitterest of winter winds
Note: this article originally appeared Jan. 8, 1999 in the Duluth News Tribune. Shortly after the article ran, Duluth school and transit officials created a program to get free city bus passes for students living within two miles of Central High School.
by Tom Wilkowske
The air surrounding Todd Baker ‘s tennis shoe-clad feet hovered at 17 degrees below zero as he trudged up through Duluth’s Central Hillside on his way to school Thursday morning.
Bound by tragedy: Edmund Fitzgerald survivors grieve loss
(Editor’s note: This article first appeared in the Duluth News-Tribune (MN) on Friday, November 10, 2000. It was part of a package of stories by the News Tribune staff that won second place for in-depth reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists.)
by Tom Wilkowske
Lake Superior took Amy Kalmon’s father from her 25 years ago today. It took Cheryl Rozman’s, too.
Kalmon ws 15, Rozman was 28.
A teen-ager, a young mother. Two daughters, two separate lives. One lake, one shipwreck — 25 years of grief and healing, of setbacks and steps forward.
