Bad call? Ely's Santa Claus is watching you

Eden Prairie High School’s Linda Wallenberg has been named Minnesota’s Teacher of the Year. She has been in the classroom for nearly five decades and is also a nationally renowned gymnastics coach.

Ahmed Amin recently took the reins as the principal at Minneapolis South High School. Amin, a graduate of Minneapolis Roosevelt, was a teacher at Roosevelt and principal at Sanford Middle School before accepting his current position.

On March 14, Dan Jourdain, Jonathan White and Phillip Johnson became the first all-Indigenous three-man referee crew to officiate a Minnesota basketball state tournament game.

Shelly Foster, a graduate of Cass Lake High School, was recently inducted into the 2025 North American Indigenous Athletics Hall of Fame. Foster walked on the Stanford University Volleyball team in the spring of her sophomore year and played two season for the Cardinals as a libero.