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Public Comment Period Opens for Google Data Center
The City of Hermantown opened the public comment period on an updated scoping document associated with the Alternative Urban Areawide Review (AUAR) for the proposed Google data center campus on March 31, 2026. The AUAR study area includes 26 parcels totaling approximately 278 acres in the southwest corner of Hermantown (Adolph). This study area…
Read More150 years ago speech helped create Proctor
Proctor missed another important historic date. It was 150 years ago on January 27, 1871 James Proctor Knott delivered a satirical speech in the House known as Duluth! or The Untold Delights of Duluth. The speech ridiculed a bill subsidizing westward expansions of railroads. The speech is sometimes reprinted in collections of humorous speeches or…
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