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In this Duluth Local Scoop issue…
🏫 The school district's staring down a third straight year of cuts
🎸 Free live music tonight in Lincoln Park
✈️ The Thunderbirds are coming back to town
⛈️ Keep the rain jacket handy — midweek could get soggy
Trivia: Enger Tower is one of the best free views in town — what's it built out of? (Answer at the bottom!)
Events — your week ahead
Tuesday, July 7
Music in the Park: Iron Range Funk — 6–8 p.m. · Lincoln Park · Free Tuesday-night concert series (at Lincoln Park this summer while Chester Bowl's chalet gets fixed up). Bring a chair.
Wednesday, July 8
Concerts on the Pier: Slope City w/ Water Cat — 5:30–8 p.m. · Glensheen · Free show on the lakeshore, opener at 5:30, headliner at 6:30.
Wednesday–Thursday, July 8–9
Downtown Duluth Days — daytime · Superior Street · The old sidewalk-sale weekend with a new name. Deals, a car show and a downtown block party.
Saturday, July 11
Duluth Airshow — gates 11 a.m. · Duluth International Airport · The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds headline, plus stunt pilots and a MiG-17. Runs Saturday and Sunday.
Ian Munsick with George Birge — evening · Bayfront Festival Park · Country night down on the waterfront.
Sunday, July 12
Duluth Huskies baseball — 6:35 p.m. · Wade Stadium · Northwoods League summer ball on the west side. Cheap seats, big fun.
Weather
Today starts out a mix of sun and clouds with a high around 79, but don't get too comfortable. The weather service has us flagged for possible flash flooding today into Wednesday — rounds of showers and storms lining up on a stalled front, with an inch or two of rain likely and a few spots maybe pushing 3 to 5 inches. Watch low-lying roads and creek crossings. Full forecast at National Weather Service Duluth.
Duluth schools brace for a third straight year of cuts
The district's cutting more than $4.2 million for 2026–27, its third year of reductions in a row. That's a 16% trim at the district office and 5% at school sites, with roughly 48 positions displaced. Leaders point to rising health insurance, transportation and special-ed costs while state funding hasn't kept up. Both East and Denfeld are set to lose a counselor. Read more →
Two fired Duluth EPA scientists are suing
Two former biologists at the EPA's lab in Duluth, Alexander Cole and Stephanie Eytcheson, filed suit this week, saying they were fired for signing a letter critical of the administration on their own time. They're among seven ex-employees who went to federal court. The EPA's own ethics officers had found no problem with the signatures. Read more →
Work on the Aerial Lift Bridge inches ahead
The city's rehab of our most famous landmark hits a milestone Wednesday, when bids open on the Aerial Lift Bridge rehabilitation project. It's one of a handful of big infrastructure jobs on the books this year, alongside reconstruction work on 3rd Avenue West and 40th Avenue West. Translation: more orange cones, but a bridge that keeps lifting for decades. Read more →
Cross-country cyclists took their rest day here
Riders on the 4,000-mile Fuller Center Bike Adventure rolled into Duluth over the weekend, hitting the halfway point of a 10-week ride raising money for affordable housing. They started at the Pacific back in May and finish in Maine on Aug. 8. Duluth was their day off before the next leg along the Great Lakes. Read more →
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Trivia answer: Bluestone. Enger Tower is a five-story bluestone tower up on Enger Park, dedicated back in 1939. Climb it and you get one of the best looks at the harbor and the hillside you'll find anywhere in town — for free.
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