🌱 How Duluth’s animal-care shakeup could impact Proctor’s four-legged residents

What's up Proctor! Let's start this morning right by getting caught up on what's going on around town. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

• How Duluth's animal-care shakeup could impact Proctor's four-legged residents

Today's riddle: What do you call a belt that is made of watches? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Thursday: Partly sunny; breezy, cooler, with a high of 63 and low of 39 degrees.
• Friday: Mostly sunny, temps: high: 59, low: 43.
• Saturday: Cloudy with a shower or two, with a high of 61 and low of 44 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• City of Duluth, Animal Allies leadership release statements about possible partnership (fox21online.com) — Proctor pet owners may be indirectly affected as Duluth considers shifting animal care from its aging city shelter to Animal Allies, the nonprofit that already serves Proctor through contract. City and Animal Allies leaders say a new partnership could improve animal care and free Duluth police to focus more on enforcement, with a long-term agreement expected to be finalized in coming weeks.
   

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🗓 Events Nearby

Thursday October 1
• Fall Roast Beef Dinner →
  First United Methodist Church, 230 E. Skyline Parkway, Duluth
  4:30 pm
• Family Night at LPMS
  Lincoln Park Middle School, 3215 W 3rd St, Duluth
  5:00 pm
• Café Scientifique →
  Duluth MN
  6:00 pm
• Trivia →
  Wild State Cider, 2515 W Superior St, Duluth
  7:00 pm
Friday October 2
• Fall Color Tour 2026 →
  Pier B Resort Hotel, 800 W Railroad St, Duluth
• Dovetail Trivia! →
  Dovetail Cafe, Duluth
  5:30 pm
Saturday October 3
• Fika & Fiber →
  Dovetail Cafe, Duluth
  8:30 am
• Normanna Fire Dept Squatch 5K →
  Normanna Town Hall, 6472 French River Road, Duluth
  9:00 am
• Building Villages/Strengthen Communities Conference →
  AICHO, 202 W 2nd St, Duluth, Duluth
  10:00 am
• Friends Fest + Cellar Sale →
  Wild State Cider, 2515 W Superior St, Duluth
  11:00 am
Tuesday October 6
• 1031 Exchange: From the Basics to the Complex in Real Estate Transactions →
  Lake Superior Area REALTORS, 4031 Grand Avenue, Duluth
  9:30 am
• Small Business Seeds for Growth →
  Clyde Iron Works Event Center, Duluth
  10:00 am

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🗞 Nearby News

Hermantown

• Hermantown High School pilots virtual reality tech classes with Dunwoody College (cbs3duluth.com)
• Kozlowski and Savela discuss data centers, mining at forum (northernnewsnow.com)
• Matters of Record for Sept. 30, 2026 (duluthnewstribune.com)

Duluth

• The renaissance of train travel: 7 destinations where the train is the best part of the journey (tulsaworld.com)
• Supporters, critics face off over Duluth school referendum (duluthnewstribune.com)
• Duluth's West Theatre faces midnight deadline to avoid foreclosure shutdown (northernnewsnow.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A waist of time. (Thank you Martin L. for sending it in!)
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