I suppose that is an evergreen headline, since America s public schools are a disaster in pretty much every way. But what prompts it at the moment is the Richfield, Minnesota school district. Richfield is a modest suburb of Minneapolis, not the kind of tony place you might expect to go off the deep end. Richfield s schools are in the news today, with this headline from a local TV station: Richfield
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High school seniors ready for return of in-person commencement
RICHFIELD, Minn. (FOX 9) - Thousands of Minnesota high school students are getting ready to graduate, and after a pandemic-upended school year, commencement looks to be a welcome return to normal.
When they began their final year at Richfield High School, students had no idea how their senior year would go.
High school seniors ready for return of in person commencement
High school seniors are looking forward to the return of in person commencement ceremonies after the pandemic restrictions last year. I definitely was nervous because I wanted to have that last hurrah with my friends and to just have my family out there watching, said Helen, a senior.
Twin Cities playwright and critic William Randall Beard dies at 64 May 12, 2021 6:33am Text size Copy shortlink:
A passionate voice in Twin Cities performing arts has been silenced by the coronavirus pandemic.
William Randall Beard, a playwright and freelance critic who wrote about classical music, theater and opera for the Star Tribune, Pioneer Press and Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, among others, died April 17 at HCMC. He was 64.
A devout Lutheran, Beard had a battery of longstanding health issues, including lupus and congestive heart failure.
Just over a decade ago, he had a terrible fall at Orchestra Hall literally down several flights of stairs and tore tons of ligaments and required 19 leg operations, said playwright Daniel Pinkerton, Beard s 40-year friend and onetime roommate. He could never quite walk right again. So he couldn t get the kind of exercise he needed.
Howard Curtis NIELSON, Congress, UT (1924)
Howard Curtis NIELSON, Congress, UT (1924) NIELSON Howard Curtis , A Representative from Utah; born in Richfield, Sevier County, Utah, September 12, 1924; graduated from Richfield High School, 1942; B.S., University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 1947; M.S., University of Oregon, Eugene, 1949; M.B.A., Stanford University, 1956; Ph.D., Stanford University, 1958; served in the United States Army Air Forces, sergeant, 1943-1946; economist, 1949-1951; consultant, 1951-1957; university professor, 1957-1982; elected to the Utah house of representatives, 1967-1974 and served as speaker, 1973-1974; Associate Commissioner of Higher Education, Utah, 1976-1978; delegate, Utah State Republican conventions, 1960-1982; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1983-January 3, 1991); was not a candidate for renomination in 1990 to the One Hundred Second Congress; died on May 20, 2020.