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Stephanie Ukkola
BREITUNG- At the Tuesday special meeting of the Breitung Town Board, the supervisors voted to start the process of hiring a police chief for the township. Breitung and the city of Tower currently have no local police service after the full-time officer and police chief both left the Breitung Police Department for jobs with other departments.
Members of the Tower-Soudan police committee recommended local policing to the town board, possibly managed by a joint police commission in the future. The committee also recommended that off hours be serviced by St. Louis County’s 911 service, instead of having Breitung officers on-call 24/7, to prevent officer burnout. The committee made their recommendation after ten weeks of research, a community open house, and a survey.
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Marshall Helmberger
TOWER-SOUDAN Residents of Breitung Township voiced support for a return to a local police department, at least based on the limited response to a survey on the question that township officials distributed to residents of Soudan and the surrounding area last month. Meanwhile, residents in Tower provided little response to the survey, although a narrow plurality of respondents backed relying on 911-coverage only through the St. Louis County Sheriff’s office.
Residents of Tower returned just 23 surveys, reflecting a response rate of less than five percent. Township residents returned 50 surveys, a response rate of less than ten percent.
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A local Duluthian donated $1,000 in boxed meals from Vanilla Bean Restaurant to Emergency Room/COVID nursing staff at both Essentia and St. Luke’s.
A local Duluthian donated $1,000 in boxed meals from Vanilla Bean Restaurant to Emergency Room/COVID nursing staff at both Essentia and St. Luke’s. On Dec. 21, John Goldfine sent boxed meals to both hospitals for workers in the COVID units. His gift was in honor of the University of Minnesota Duluth’s men’s hockey team. Goldfine also encouraged others in the Twin Ports who are looking for ways to give back to consider sending meals to the local hospitals. This donation comes on the heels of another anonymous donation of $500 in meals to Essentia workers earlier this month.