John Steffl News Today

The nonprofit will be leaving its longtime galleries in the St. Louis County Depot, but is searching for new space — and continuing programming at its Lincoln Park building.

Also this week: a new BOLD-choice Theatre production, Sax-Zim Bog BRRRRdathon, Brave Art Youth Exhibition at AICHO, "Steffl in Steffl" at the Duluth Art Institute and a memoir by Eddy Gilmore.

“The school board discussed and unanimously agreed Superintendent (Mark) Jenson to be highly effective getting his daily tasks and additional goals (completed),” Chair John Steffl said.

Commissioners voted in favor of allowing the DAI until May 1 to move out of its space at the Depot.

From the column: "The decision appears to be driven by money and seems to stem from an ignorance of the importance of the exhibition spaces to professional artists in our region."

A student committee agreed that the current school song, created in the 1930s, is in need of a replacement. A future board meeting will invite the public to share opinions regarding any change.

Annie Houglum presented gifts for time serving as a student board representative.

It was a packed house at the Lakeshirts Fieldhouse on May 21 as students, family, friends and school staff watched the graduates end their high school years and start the next phase of their lives.

Lakeshirts Fieldhouse estimated to have brought more than 2,000 people to town

More than 130 people attended the monthly school board meeting on Monday, March 27.