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DULUTH — Sightseers flocked to Canal Park on Monday morning to watch the Honorable James L. Oberstar shipping vessel arrive. The laker was soon followed by the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Spar. The Hon.

DULUTH – In its last gasps of the tourist season, the William A. Irvin, a nearly century-old ore ship that looms over Canal Park, gets an ominous makeover that builds on its reputation as a place ...