Weekly Wave: Meet our new community editor - Duluth News Tribune

DULUTH — I’d like to introduce our newest newsroom member, Kristine Goodrich.

Kristine is our community editor who oversees the Superior Telegram and Cloquet Pine Journal. Before joining our team, she served as managing editor of the Faribault (Minnesota) Daily News from January 2021 to May 2024. Kristine also spent 2016 to 2021 as a reporter covering education and public safety at the Mankato Free Press.

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Before that, the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay graduate was a journalist and then co-editor of the weeklies White Bear Press and Vadnais Heights Press from 2004 to 2016.

Kristine is busy training for her role in the newsroom, meeting new faces and exploring the Northland.

We are delighted to have Kristine join our newsroom and are confident that our readers will soon benefit from her journalistic experiences.

Welcome Kristine!

Duluth law enforcement officers and firefighters receive instructions during a simulated active shooter training exercise at the former St. Mary’s Medical Center in May.

Police and firefighters are always looking for realistic training scenarios and settings. Local law enforcement found an interesting setting for three days of training last month: the former St. Mary’s Medical Center.

Now that Essentia Health has a brand new hospital, the old one should be demolished. But for a few days last month, it served another purpose as several law enforcement agencies participated in an active shooter training exercise.

Learn more from DNT reporter Peter Passi here. (Story reserved for subscribers)

A ship is guided into port by a tugboat while it lists on its side. — A tugboat guides the damaged Michipicoten into port in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Saturday, June 8, 2024. The 689-foot laker was carrying taconite when it began taking on water 35 miles southwest of Isle Royale in Lake Superior. Pumps managed to reduce its list from 15 degrees to 5 degrees as it turned toward Thunder Bay.

It was far from an Edmund Fitzgerald event, but every time a laker takes to the water, the maritime community takes notice immediately.

The Michipicoten had an eventful weekend when it reportedly hit something in the water. As DNT reporter Jimmy Lovrien writes: “The Canadian-flagged ship, built in 1952, was carrying taconite pellets from Two Harbors when it began taking on water Saturday morning, prompting the evacuation of half its crew and an emergency diversion to Thunder Bay to pump out the waters. worked to reduce the ship’s list from 15 degrees to 5 degrees.

Investigators now believe the problem may be structural in nature and not the result of a collision, but you can read more here.

Austin Stoltenberg with large coho salmon — Austin Stoltenberg, 12, of Cherry, caught this 12.36 pound, 33 3/4 inch long coho salmon while fishing on Lake Superior just off the coast of Duluth on Saturday, June 1, 2024. C was the first coho he had ever caught and was the new state record. Coho and other salmon and trout in western Lake Superior are growing thanks to a record class of cisco and smelt that hatched in 2022.

Plenty of big fish lurk in the depths of the largest of the Great Lakes, and a 12-year-old from Cherry, Minn., may have caught the largest coho salmon in all state records.

At 12.36 pounds, this is a big fish!

DNT outside reporter John Myers has more on Austin Stoltenberg’s big catch here.

Here are some other stories from last week to check out:

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Rick Lubbers has served in this role since 2014 and at the News Tribune since 2005. Previous stops include the Superior Telegram (1999-2005) and Budgeteer News (1997-1999). Before that, he worked at the St. Cloud Times and the Annandale Advocate in Minnesota, and the Greenville Daily News and the Grand Rapids Press in Michigan. He earned his degree in journalism from Central Michigan University.