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Wildfire smoke prompt air quality alerts
Proctor area residents woke up to the thick smell of smoke and haze from wildfires in northern Minnesotaand Canada have triggered air quality alerts for a large swath of Minnesota with a particular warning for northeast Minnesota where the air will be hazardous to everyone due to smoke in the air, according to the Minnesota…
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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