Editor's Notebook

This week marks the 40th anniversary of the fire which destroyed the original Elks Lodge buildings in Superior along with an addition that saw its first use on New Year’s Eve.

We may not have space this week to reprint The Express story and pictures which reported on the fire but we are getting the material ready for republication.

While preparing the From the Files report for this week, we recalled that super cold night and the biggest fire I’ve had an opportunity to cover in my 50 years with The Express.

The official U.S. Weather Bureau thermometer reported it was 11 below zero that night. I...