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Video: Fall Musical, Behind the Scenes

by | January 6, 2025 | Multimedia, Video | 0 Comments

Little Shop of Horrors: Behind the scenes Video showcasing the props for The Little Shop Of Horrors. Video courtesy of Nicholas Freeman.
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Slideshow: SMB Football Wolfpack’s Section Quarterfinal Heartbreak Captured by Ezra Victor

by | January 6, 2025 | Multimedia, Photography, Slideshows, Sports | 0 Comments

Wolfpack won’t go down without a fight The SMB Wolfpack football team—a co-op of Minnehaha Academy, the Blake School, St. Paul Academy, and Hope Academy—faced DeLaSalle in the Class 4A, Section 5 quarterfinal on October 22 at Blake. Both teams showed great skill and...
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Slideshow: CFE Kenya (October 2024)

by | January 6, 2025 | Multimedia, Slideshows | 0 Comments

An unforgettable experience While most Core Formation Experiences overnight trips are scheduled for March 2025, CFE got off to an early start with a trip to Kenya. Group participant and journalism student Olivia Hughes (‘25) created this slideshow using her own...
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M.A. Votes: Why students voted the way they did

by | December 13, 2024 | Opinions, Talon | 0 Comments

Harris, Trump, No Vote or Other? Students explain their preferences On Tuesday, Nov. 5, Election Day, 344 Minnehaha Academy Upper School students voted in an all-school election. Results were reported in brief the same afternoon, with details reported in The Talon...
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The end of an Era

by | December 12, 2024 | Opinions, Talon | 0 Comments

Studying The Tortured Poets Department as Taylor Swift's Eras Tour ends                        Who, in what world, would ever, ever, pay thousands of dollars, for just one night of live entertainment? Taylor Swifts’ fans would.  But why? It can’t be just the lyrics —...
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Sports consumption changing

by | December 12, 2024 | Sports, Talon | 0 Comments

How today's teenagers are engaging with pro sports Teenagers don’t seem to care about sports anymore— at least live sports. TV viewership for sports is dropping; many kids and teens have never attended a live sporting event. Social media has changed the landscape of...
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Rollback to the future

by | December 12, 2024 | Features, Talon | 0 Comments

How the Trump administration has and will continue to shape the climate crisis for generations The climate crisis does not pause for politics. From poisoned rivers to polluted air and shattered international cooperation, the Trump Administration’s blueprint for...
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A moment frozen in time

by | December 12, 2024 | Features, Talon | 0 Comments

School Election Follow Up  Suspense, questions, and concerns, regarding the outcomes of the 2024 election filled the halls of the Minnehaha Upper School before November 5th. With the nation’s future at stake, the big question remained: “Who will be the leader of...
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Addi Mack previews the 2025 basketball season

by | December 10, 2024 | Multimedia, Video | 0 Comments

Juniors Olivia Pederson and Danielle Hobbie interview senior captain Addi Mack about the upcoming girls' basketball season< /h1>
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New Faces at M.A.: J Wesley Rohrer, Science and Social Studies

by | December 5, 2024 | Briefs, Talon | 0 Comments

Rohrer teaches Physics, Ancient History to 9th Graders Wesley Rohrer, a new ancient world history and physics teacher, has impressed students with his energy. Outside of school, he loves taking adventures such as hiking with his dog and eating lots of new foods....
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Slideshow: SMB Football Wolfpack’s Section Quarterfinal Heartbreak Captured by Ezra Victor

by | January 6, 2025 | Multimedia, Photography, Slideshows, Sports | 0 Comments

Wolfpack won’t go down without a fight The SMB Wolfpack football team—a co-op of Minnehaha Academy, the Blake School, St. Paul Academy, and Hope Academy—faced DeLaSalle in the Class 4A, Section 5 quarterfinal on October 22 at Blake. Both teams showed great skill and...
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Slideshow: CFE Kenya (October 2024)

by | January 6, 2025 | Multimedia, Slideshows | 0 Comments

An unforgettable experience While most Core Formation Experiences overnight trips are scheduled for March 2025, CFE got off to an early start with a trip to Kenya. Group participant and journalism student Olivia Hughes (‘25) created this slideshow using her own...
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Spelling Bee: an MA Players Production

by | May 31, 2024 | Multimedia, Slideshows | 0 Comments

For the 2023-2024 musical, the MA players performed The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee April 18 through 20. Photos and slideshow by Josephine Johnson.
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Video: Fall Musical, Behind the Scenes

by | January 6, 2025 | Multimedia, Video | 0 Comments

Little Shop of Horrors: Behind the scenes Video showcasing the props for The Little Shop Of Horrors. Video courtesy of Nicholas Freeman.
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Addi Mack previews the 2025 basketball season

by | December 10, 2024 | Multimedia, Video | 0 Comments

Juniors Olivia Pederson and Danielle Hobbie interview senior captain Addi Mack about the upcoming girls' basketball season< /h1>
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Leadership in Sports: Addi Mack

by | June 2, 2024 | Multimedia, Video | 0 Comments

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Leadership in Clubs: Inaaya Hinton

by | June 2, 2024 | Multimedia, Video | 0 Comments

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Leadership in Education: Dr. Mike DinNardo

by | June 2, 2024 | Multimedia, Video | 0 Comments

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Leadership in Education: Johanna Beck

by | June 1, 2024 | Multimedia, Video | 0 Comments

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Nicholas Freeman as Buddy Holly

by | May 31, 2024 | Multimedia, Video | 0 Comments

Freeman brings stage experience to classroom, school productions Minnehaha Academy theater and film teacher -- and professional actor -- Nicholas Freeman reflects on 15 years of portraying iconic rock’n’roll pioneer Buddy Holly in productions and concerts, usually at...
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Experiencing the forces of physics

by | May 24, 2024 | Multimedia, Video | 0 Comments

Screams accompany 9th graders on Physics Day Besides measuring and learning about forces, first-year students experienced them in a fun day of rides at a local mall. GoPro videos by Desmond Berthiaume, Benjamin Misa and Alex Salo. Editing by Desmond Berthiaume....
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Stromberg’s Star Wars secret mission

by | May 22, 2024 | Multimedia, Video | 0 Comments

Piecing together decades of film classics Minnehaha Academy art teacher and collage artist talks about his most recent commission, which he created in secret. It now hangs at the center of the Star Wars universe. For more on the...
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Diversity at Minnehaha: Family Languages

by | May 20, 2024 | Multimedia, Video | 0 Comments

Upper-school students prove they’re fluent in many ways Many students often speak a language other than English when they’re at home with their families. Here is a sample of their language diversity. Filmed by Aaron Melling, Lucas Freeman, Finn Foster, Lucy Hoffner...
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Guthrie gab

Guthrie gab

by | Apr 7, 2011

Two Talon staff members, Brigid Kelly and Olivia Dorow Hovland, had the opportunity to travel to the Guthrie Theater as part of an event sponsored by the Minnesota High School Press Association.

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Why Art?

Why Art?

by | Apr 7, 2011

What should you do in your free time? Here’s a radical idea: go to a museum … for fun!

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Alum in local band

Alum in local band

by | Apr 7, 2011

Matt Kretzmann, a 1998 Minnehaha graduate, relates his experience playing music in high school to his current life playing in Tapes ‘n Tapes.

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