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Article: Make way for progress.
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- Duluth News-Tribune (Duluth, MN)
- Article date:
- February 23, 2008
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Byline: Janna Goerdt
Feb. 23--TOWER -- The tiny, old-fashioned lifejackets and rusty minnow pail left behind in Boathouse No. 219 on the East Two River hinted at summers past on the river and on the east end of Lake Vermilion.
The massive backhoe that chewed through a row of boathouses Friday afternoon emphatically announced plans for the river's future -- and the possible future of tourism in the area.
Demolition contractor Tom Nemanich of Ely took down the short row of corrugated metal boathouses to make room for a planned $10 million harbor redevelopment project south of Tower.
Plans call for a new, 2.3-acre harbor to be carved out ...