Here’s a look at the top headlines from around the Northland for Monday, June 20, 2022. 

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Here’s a look at the top headlines from around the Northland for Friday, June 17, 2022. 

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Here’s a look at the top headlines from around the Northland for Thursday, June 16, 2022. 

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Here’s a look at the top headlines from around the Northland for Wednesday, June 15, 2022. 

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Here’s a look at the top headlines from around the Northland for Tuesday, June 14, 2022. 

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Here’s a look at the top headlines from around the Northland for Monday, June 13, 2022. 

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Here’s a look at the top headlines from around the Northland for Friday, June 10, 2022. 

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Here’s a look at the top headlines from around the Northland for Thursday, June 9, 2022. 

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Today the Superior Telegram released its fifth episode of Archive Dive, the new monthly history podcast hosted by Telegram reporter Maria Lockwood. Every month, Maria and a local historian will dip into the archives of historic events, people and places in Superior and Douglas County.

During the June 2022 episode, we feature the garden clubs that bloomed in Superior for many decades, not only beautifying the city, but affecting change. Even today, their plantings and their footprints can be found in Superior. The clubs usually consisted of a group of ladies who would get together and work on gardens in their area. It was a social outlet, where they bonded over gardening and would take care of community gardens in public places.

“It always seemed like they were doing something for someone else, for the betterment of the community,” said local historian and retired librarian Teddie Merenok.

Meronek has studied the impact of the garden clubs on the community, which ran actively from the 1920’s through the 1990s. Meronek shares the origins of the first garden club in Superior. The Superior Garden Club, later known as the Central Garden Club, was organized in 1926 by sisters Mabel Stratton and Faith Kennedy. Their passion for gardening came from their father, Robert Kelly, the manager of The Land and River Improvement Company.

It turns out, Mabel and Faith weren’t the only ones passionate about gardening. They were going to cap their enrollment at 30, but everyone in town wanted to belong to it. By 1939, Superior had the largest garden club in the state, with almost 300 people. Eventually the club would be broken down into auxiliaries, sometimes along neighborhood lines. Other garden clubs formed and would spread throughout Douglas County. Club members learned landscaping, held flower shows and events, sponsored school clubs, and were ahead of their time in promoting planting gardens that would attract bees, birds and wildlife. The clubs also kept their notebooks, addresses, newspaper clippings and pictures in scrapbooks as colorful as the gardens that they tended.

You can find that full episode at superiortelegram.com or whatever streaming service you listen to this podcast.  

Today, we are resharing Archive Dive's fourth episode, which was released in May. Enjoy. 

Here’s a look at the top headlines from around the Northland for Wednesday, June 8, 2022. 

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