Forging Community News Today

The Center for Inclusion and Social Change will host a conference titled 'TRANSforming Gender' in March 2024, the theme for which is 'Breaking Chains, Forging Community.'

There is a community in Duluth dedicated to sharing knowledge of blacksmithing and metal work.

The annual celebration of the Duluth-born Nobel laureate is taking place May 21-29.

Forge Evolution, formerly Teen Court, holds its first fundraiser.

David Colburn ELY - Who isn’t fascinated by fire? It seems to be part of human DNA, and human history. Blacksmithing gives one the opportunity to “play” with fire, using intense heat to transform hard metal into a different substance that can be bent, twisted, and formed into many functional and decorative items. The Ely Folk School recently presented a Taste of Blacksmithing class that gave students an opportunity to give this ancient art a try. A recent all-day workshop, dubbed “Hamm...

Compiled by Candace Krebs Data shows earlier snowmelt across West A new study from the University of Colorado shows an increase in winter snowmelt across the West. The analysis from CU Boulder examined 40 years of data and determined that snowmelt has been increasing in all of the cold season months, from October to March. The study indicated that melt before April 1 has increased by an average of 3.5 percent per decade. This trend is shifting the timing of water entering the system, which affe...