Last weekend, two teenagers drowned in the water off Silver Bay, a tragedy that has lawmakers and first responders calling for the Coast Guard to reverse course, and some groups taking action on their own.

Local emergency crews responded, as did a rescue boat from Coast Guard Station Bayfield, and an aircraft from Coast Guard Station Traverse City in Michigan. Until last fall that likely would’ve been Grand Marais, but that station’s former territory is now divided between Coast Guard Stations Bayfield and Duluth.

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