In 1980, a Minnesota woman and her 8-year-old daughter were kidnapped and held for 53 days. This is their story
Mary and Irv Stauffer sat down with Forum News Service to recall their tale of terror that happened 39 years ago.
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Mary Stauffer looks at a photo of the closet where she and her eight-year-old daughter were imprisoned after Ming Sen Shiue kidnapped them in 1980. The pair escaped after 53 days. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
HERMANTOWN, Minn. Days before Duluth native Mary Stauffer and her family were scheduled to leave for the Philippines on a four-year Baptist missionary trip, she took her 8-year-old daughter, Beth, to get a haircut in suburban St. Paul.
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Peter (Zach Wunner) introduces his friend “Rawlings” during the dress rehearsal for the Hermantown High School production of “10 Ways to Survive Life in Quarantine” on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. Wunner was demonstrating the “make friend with inanimate objects” method. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
A year after the COVID-19 pandemic caused the cancellation of their spring theatrical production of Radium Girls, Hermantown High School is getting ready to present its first in-person show. We were told to go home at the end of the day (March 17, 2020) and to cancel all practices. We were first told it would be a couple of weeks, so we asked the kids to remember to take their scripts home and continue to practice their lines. We postponed the performance for a later date, said director Theresa Taraldsen. When we learned school wo
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The Minnesota Department of Health has expressed concern about the increased positivity rates among the school-age population, and encourages parents of 16- and 17-year-olds to get their students vaccinated.
Only the Pfizer vaccine is approved for those ages 16-17.
Over the past week in St. Louis County, those age 4 and under had nine new cases; ages 5-9 had 22 new cases; ages 10-14 had 11 new cases; and those ages 15-19 had 28 new cases.
Statewide COVID-19 cases over the past week by age group were: age 4 and under, 396; ages 5-9, 626; ages 10-14, 920; and ages 15-19, 1,176.
From March 28 through April 3, there were 796 more positive cases in schools statewide, with 120 new cases among staff and 676 new cases among students. The state reported one staff member spent time in the ICU and one student was hospitalized last week.
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According to WDIO Hermantown Community Schools Superintendent Wayne Whitman said:
With the new announcement what we re looking at doing is renting space down at the DECC in Duluth, we believe the capacity is going to be right around 1200. You know we re still working out the tentative details, but we believe with a graduating class of about 170 that would hold the guests that would attend.
Now that the date and venue is set many details still need to be ironed out to make sure that the students and audience members will remain safe and socially distanced.
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