Hennepin Theatre Trust announced today that high school students Halle Audette (Totino-Grace High School, Fridley) and Zachary Sullivan (Minnetonka High School) will represent Minnesota at the National High School Musical Theatre Awards (The Jimmy Awards).
District to hire new WSHS principal (6/2/2021)
Winona Area Public Schools (WAPS) staff have selected a new Winona Senior High School (WSHS) principal. Heather Fitzloff, who has served as an assistant principal at Prior Lake High School in Savage, Minn., for nine years, is recommended to be the next leader of WSHS, according to Superintendent Annette Freiheit.
School Board members will vote on whether to approve the selection at their June 3 meeting. If approved, Fitzloff would begin on July 1.
The selection follows the current principal’s resignation. WSHS Principal Mark Anderson will step down at the end of this school year to begin in his new role, principal of Kennedy Secondary School in Fergus Falls, Minn., in July. He has worked at WAPS for more than 10 years. Prior to becoming the WSHS principal in 2016, he served as the Winona Middle School principal.
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Andrew Jay Franklin, age 69, of Northfield, MN, died Tuesday, March 9, 2021. He lived a life of insatiable curiosity and grand adventure. He studied art at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, taught physics in Togo during his time in the Peace Corps, built a cabin by his own hand in the Minnesota north woods, was a renowned science educator for over 40 years and was the most engaged, loving, hands-on father the world has ever seen.
Andy was born in Columbus, Ohio on September 14, 1951, the son of Ralph and Shirley (Williams) Franklin. The family moved to Trenton, Michigan where he attended junior high and later moved to Dickinson, Texas where he graduated from high school in 1969. Andy studied for one year at the University of Texas before transferring to the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa. There he received his bachelor’s degree in Biology and Fine Arts and later a Masters in Science Education. He was united in marriage to Gabriele (Faltinsky) So