VISTA Productions (Visitation and Saint Thomas Academy) earned Hennepin Theatre Trust Spotlight Awards for its show Peter and the Starcatcher directed by Wendy Short-Hays. The honors include outstanding Overall Performance, Sound Crew, Lighting Crew and Overall Technical Team. Several individual…
The Saint Paul City Council will have a majority of new members in 2024, with four of the seven incumbents stepping down at the end of next year. The latest to announce he will not seek reelection is Ward 3’s…
When the boys’ high school basketball season begins, most coaches already have a pretty good idea of the type of players they’ll have on hand. Between summer workouts and Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) games, they know who can shoot, who…
A lot of basketball teams live by the three-point shot, only to die by it on other occasions. Girls’ high school basketball is no different.Local prep coaches agree that the three-pointer can produce a prolific offense if they have players…
When talking with local high school girls’ hockey coaches, the number of participants in their programs is front and center on their minds, although the scope of the problem seems to be varied.“We’ve got to start growing the game again,”…
Saint Thomas Academy started out slow, but finished strong to punch its ticket to the state football tournament with a 45-0 win over Two Rivers in the Section 3AAAAA title game on November 4.The Cadets had drubbed the Warriors earlier…
Junior running back Melvin Mensah may not have the height or speed that big-time college football scouts would consider ideal. However, Highland Park High School football coach Jonathan Brown said Mensah has qualities neither a tape measure nor a stopwatch…
When Matt Millard took over the reins of the Nova Classical Academy girls’ soccer program three years ago, he knew he had a lot of work ahead of him. “We barely survived that first season,” he said.The Knights didn’t have…
It’s the same thing in so many high school sports these days. Officials are in such short supply that the situation is approaching the critical stage, according to local coaches. They say an increase in pay might help, but there’s…
One of the biggest issues facing local high school football coaches this season is the shortage of referees. While coaches are stopping short of saying the situation is critical, they’re stressing the need to get more young people to officiate…
Highland Park senior HaNeul Jeong McDonell has played her last high school badminton match, and what a match it was when she won the state individual singles championship on May 19.Heading into the state finals against Washington’s Cinderella Nwe, there…
Central junior Cole Spitzer might just be the best high school pitcher in the state few people have heard of. But like anything else, if you’re good enough you don’t stay unknown forever.The 5-foot-10, 150-pound lefty has a fastball that…
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