The 85-foot statue, depicting an ordinary miner standing atop steel girders, is an Iron Range landmark and a tribute to the tenaciousness of the late Veda Ponikvar.
Chisholm’s Iron Man Memorial graced the cover of the Hometown Focus Mining Edition on September 28, 2018. On this page is, at least in part, his story. The Iron Man Memorial in Chisholm stands at eighty-five feet tall as a monument to the miners of Minnesota’s Iron Range. The nearly thirty-year story of its creation
REGIONAL After eight years at the helm of the most influential state agency on the Iron Range, Mark Phillips is heading into retirement but not without having made his mark on the …
It was Minnesota s first and only World Cup race. But it almost never happened. 8:00 am, Dec. 12, 2020 ×
Gary Larson, of Duluth, worked as Nordic director for Giants Ridge and chief of course for the 1985 Nordic World Cup races at Giants Ridge in Biwabik. Larson is standing in his home with memorabilia he saved from the race. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com)
The International Ski Federation’s Cross-Country World Cup was scheduled to return to Minnesota in March, but it was canceled just days before over COVID-19 concerns.
The Minneapolis event would have been the state’s second cross-country World Cup race, and the first and only, held 35 years ago at Giants Ridge in Biwabik, also almost faced a last-minute cancellation.