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ReaderFest 20th Birthday

Saturday, July 22, 2017 at Duluth-Bayfront Festival Park (free)

Featuring: Red Mountain • Alamode • Reflectivore • Jaw Knee Vee • Superior Siren • Fire Dancing

Gates open at 2pm, Music at 3pm.

Oh yes, it’s that time of year again! It’s time for the annual popularity poll that makes you either cheer with excitement or cower into a corner in a vivid flashback of your high-school years. Oh, come on, admit it. You secretly love the attention, don’t you? Of course you do.

Take a look at the list. Have fun with it. Be inventive, imaginative, and entertaining with your responses. if you don’t like the categories, make up some of your own and toss in your commentary wherever you see fit.

1) Sign In

Or grab a free account if you don’t already have one. Sorry to make you do that, but it’s necessary to have a secure, fair, and accurate poll.

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2) Click the “vote” button next to the stuff you like.

Check out the categories (to your right) and vote for as many things as you like. You can only cast one vote per item but you can “un-vote” by clicking the button again (if you changed your mind).

3) You can add options to each poll.

At the bottom of each poll there lies a form labeled “Add Your Own”. When you fill that out, your option will be added to that poll. Please do not call/email us to yell and scream about something being left-off. It’s ok for you to add it!

Deadline: The poll runs December 22 January 11 (at midnight)

• Best of Food & Drink
• Best of Health & Fitness
• Best of People & Media
• Best of Services
• Best of the Material World

Duluth News Tribune Executive Editor Robin Washington has left the newspaper after more than four years in the publication’s top news job.
Publisher Ken Browall informed newsroom staff Thursday afternoon of the change in leadership.
“Robin Washington has left the editor position at the Duluth News Tribune. I wish him well in his future endeavors. The search for a new editor will begin immediately,” Browall said in a prepared statement. He declined to elaborate on the situation.
Washington had led the News Tribune’s news department since Jan. 8, 2010, when then-editor Rob Karwath was laid off and his position eliminated, among others at the paper, as part of cost-cutting measures. The News Tribune and its news staff won numerous awards during Washington’s tenure.
“I thank everyone there for a great 10 years,” Washington said in an interview Friday. “And I wish the paper well in its new direction.”
Washington, 57, a Chicago native, started at the News Tribune in 2004 as editorial page editor. He previously worked as columnist and reporter for the Boston Herald and has produced award-winning public television documentaries.
The paper’s executive editor oversees 36 reporters, photographers, copy editors, city editors and other journalists who produce the newspaper and the duluthnewstribune.com website.

As another year passes, the annual Reader’s Choice awards tradition continues. For 16 years you, the above average (tip of the hat to Garrison Keillor) readers of the Northland’s finest newsweekly have devoted oodles of hours providing us with the lowdown on the finest of the Northland. Many thousands of votes later, we have compiled this most excellent list of the best of people, places and commerce. It is an endeavor not without its challenges. Those of you who still enter the good old fashioned paper ballots, hand writing your responses and mailing them in strike us as our most loyal partners in crime.

It would help if we could always read your writing, and manual tabulations are a tad slower than those new fangled interweb dealies. Also, we recognize the challenge of gathering input from such a wide variety of folks. Although our biases are unabashedly in support of all things local, we still end up with people voting for Olive Garden for Best Italian Restaurant or Julia Roberts for Best Local Actress. Whatcha gonna do? We love you anyway.

We learn plenty from our readers through our survey: How else might someone learn about Curry Puffs from Pak’s Green Corner or the fabulous Big Wave Dave and the Ripples? And so we search and learn, but most of all, we wish you a good read.

Results:

• Best of Food & Drink
• Best of Health & Fitness
• Best of People & Media
• Best of Services
• Best of the Material World
• Worst of the Northland