Almost ten days before Minnesota's Governor Walz announced the “shelter-in-place,” local grocery stores and pharmacies were left empty. Amidst the chaos of growing COVID-19 cases, Americans have taken...
“This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean”
Greta Thunberg, an environmental activist whose unrelenting passion has brought her to the...
Julia Lucas & Scott Klinefelter, Contributing Writers
• September 19, 2019
Erin Oakley made the transition from the Blake Middle School Math Department to that of the Upper School. She’s ready to help students in Geometry and Honors Algebra 2 reach their “ohh, I get it!”...
Students have not had access to the Parade Park parking lot (located across from the math wing, next to the Sculpture Garden) since the start of the school year due to the Minnesota State Fair and, now,...
On Saturday, September 14, the Blake School celebrated the life of Ryan Mahoney. Mahoney taught math at the Upper School for 10 years until cancer took his life on August 31, 2019.
Mahoney, a US Navy...
Many students remember the middle school grind of struggling with the homework for math, foreign language, or other classes. After reluctantly turning to our parents, we soon realized how their attempts...
Cheryl Minde, Contributing Writer
• March 15, 2019
Writers Skylar Wang ‘22, Eva Berezovsky ‘19, and Yeukai Zimbwa ‘20 each received gold keys, the highest award possible, at the state level in the 2019 Scholastic Writing competition. Wang entered...
On Monday, October 8, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that the world has twelve years to drastically change its environmental impact before an almost irreversible...
Will Rosenblum, Contributing Writer
• September 27, 2018
This year’s Legacy day will differ in structure because of the construction on the Hopkins campus.
Legacy day, an annual event at the beginning of each year where grades one through twelve come...
Another year of Blake’s Science Olympiad has come to an end, with the Bears winning the title of second best small school in Minnesota at the state tournament on March 3.
The Blake team competed in...
Alyssa Story, Social Media Editor
• March 14, 2018
Lead by Anika Gutzke '19 and Zehra Kahn '18 over 30 students and faculty members participated in a peaceful walkout and 17 minutes of silence. Prior to the moments of silence, students gave both planned...
There is a new exhibit this month in the Martha Bennett Gallery on both art and nature. Students from Brian Sago’s Printmaking II teamed up with students from Will Bohrnsen’s Environmental Science...
