🌱 Minnesotan Missing In Ukraine + MPS Board Member Resigns

Happy St. Patrick's Day, Minneapolis! Here's the news for March 17.

First, today's weather: Mostly cloudy and cooler. High: 45 Low: 30.

Here are the top 5 stories in Minneapolis today:

1. Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s office is working with the U.S. embassy in Ukraine to locate a missing Minnesotan. Tyler Jacob’s mother told ABC she fears he was taken by the Russian military. (Patch)

2. Minneapolis school board member Josh Pauly has resigned. "I don't feel like I am in a place where I can work towards rebuilding trust with the current MPS leadership,” he told the Star Tribune. (Paid source: Star Tribune)

3. Acadia Cafe will remain closed indefinitely after a University of Minnesota bus crashed into the building on Tuesday. Donors raised more than $10,000 through a GoFundMe page for the West Bank bar. (Patch)

4. The Minneapolis Ethical Practices Board has dismissed ethics complaints against Mayor Jacob Frey in relation to the Amir Locke shooting. The mayor’s office announced Wednesday that the complaints were dismissed as “meritless.” (CBS)

5. More than 280 Minnesotans are currently hospitalized with COVID-19. An additional 13 COVID-related deaths were reported in the state on Wednesday. (BMTN)

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Today in Minneapolis:

• Thursday Musical continues its artist series concerts. (10:30 a.m.)
• Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day at Kip’s Irish Pub, offering food specials, bagpipes and live bands. (11 a.m.)
• The Minnesota Orchestra performs Mahler’s Ninth Symphony. (11 a.m.)
• Hear live music at O'Shaughnessy Distilling Co. (4 p.m.) and FINNEGANS Brew Co. (6 p.m.)
• Glass Animals perform at The Armory. (7:30 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• The 54th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade returns to Columbia Heights at 6 p.m. (SPD Association)
• Star Tribune shares 7 ways to raise a glass this St. Patrick’s Day. (Paid source: Star Tribune)
• Minnesota State Patrol will continue its “Highway Enforcement for Aggressive Traffic” campaign through August. (KARE11)
• The new sitcom “Welcome to Flatch” premieres tonight on FOX, featuring University of Minnesota graduate Aya Cash as a former Star Tribune reporter. (Paid source: Star Tribune)

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— Georgi Presecky

About me: Georgi is a newsletter writer and partner content curator from Chicago. She spent five years on the entertainment beat for FF2 Media covering film festivals across the U.S. Her feature articles have been recognized with awards from the Illinois Women's Press Association and National Federation of Press Women. As editor-in-chief of the Lewis University newspaper, she and her staff earned honors from the Associated Collegiate Press and American Scholastic Press Associations. She began working for Patch in 2019.