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From The Mountaintop
In Katori Hall s The Mountaintop, it is April 3, 1968, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is in room 306 of the Lorraine Motel. It s the day before his murder, and he has just given the speech I ve Been to the Mountaintop at a Memphis Mason Temple.
(Courtesy Duluth Playhouse)
The Duluth Playhouse is hosting a virtual staged reading of the play, which starred Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett when it played on Broadway, to celebrate Martin Luther King Day.
Actor Gabriel Mayfield is King in this reading, and Daysha Ramsey is Camae, a maid who visits with him.
The two reporters have already started writing stories for the News Tribune and Pine Journal. 6:00 am, Jan. 11, 2021 ×
Laura Butterbrodt (left) and Izabel Johnson
The Duluth News Tribune and Cloquet Pine Journal recently added two new reporters to their newsrooms. Laura Butterbrodt, most recently of Watertown, South Dakota, will take on the business and health care beat at the News Tribune and Izabel Johnson of Esko will join the Pine Journal.
Butterbrodt is originally from Granite Falls, Minnesota, a small town of roughly 3,000 people west of the Twin Cities. She s a 2019 journalism graduate from South Dakota State University in Brookings, South Dakota. In college, she studied abroad for a semester in Bulgaria and took part in a journalism boot camp in Prague in the Czech Republic. After graduating, she moved to Watertown, and began writing for the Watertown Public Opinion daily newspaper.
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Average annual temperatures in northeast Minnesota are rising, and the summer growing season is becoming sporadic and unpredictable. These trends threaten the iconic forested landscapes of the Northwoods, as well as the tourism, forestry industry and wildlife that depend on them.
“I am planning to live here and want to make sure I can walk in the woods when I’m old. We’ll need a forest for that,” said Joel Bransky, an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer with the University of Minnesota Extension Northeast Regional Sustainable Development Partnership (Northeast RSDP).
Northeast RSDP AmeriCorps volunteer Joel Bransky (right) collected climate-smart tree seeds with Kelly Popham (left). Photo credit: Debby Flowers.
The two reporters have already started writing stories for the News Tribune and Pine Journal. 6:00 am, Jan. 11, 2021 ×
Laura Butterbrodt (left) and Izabel Johnson
The Duluth News Tribune and Cloquet Pine Journal recently added two new reporters to their newsrooms. Laura Butterbrodt, most recently of Watertown, South Dakota, will take on the business and health care beat at the News Tribune and Izabel Johnson of Esko will join the Pine Journal.
Butterbrodt is originally from Granite Falls, Minnesota, a small town of roughly 3,000 people west of the Twin Cities. She s a 2019 journalism graduate from South Dakota State University in Brookings, South Dakota. In college, she studied abroad for a semester in Bulgaria and took part in a journalism boot camp in Prague in the Czech Republic. After graduating, she moved to Watertown, and began writing for the Watertown Public Opinion daily newspaper.