🌱 Teachers Could Strike For First Time In 50 Years + Snow Event

Good morning, Minneapolis! Here's your five-minute guide to the news near you.

First, today's weather: Mostly cloudy and colder. High: 18 Low: 16.

Here are the top stories today in Minneapolis:

1. Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter was sentenced Friday to two years in prison for the killing of 20-year-old Daunte Wright. Judge Regina Chu said it was "the saddest case in my 20 years on the bench." (Patch)

2. A Melrose man died in a head-on car crash near downtown Minneapolis Friday morning. The Minnesota State Patrol said the accident happened around 4 a.m. in the eastbound lanes of I-394. (KNSI)

3. Minneapolis teachers voted to strike Friday with 97 percent of the vote. The union still has to formally notify the district for the vote to move forward. Minneapolis teachers have not gone on strike since 1970. (CBS)

4. A "major snow event" is expected to hit the Twin Cities Monday and last 48 hours, according to BMTN. Minneapolis and St. Paul could see between 10-12 inches of snow. (BMTN)

5. River Valley Church purchased the historic Theatre de la Jeune Lune building for $10 million, the Star Tribune reports. "It's sad that it won't be part of the artistic community anymore," Jeune Lune co-founder Barbra Berlovitz said. (Paid source: Star Tribune)

Today in Minneapolis:

• Stop by the Minneapolis Winter Farmers Market. (9 a.m.)
• Check out STEM Day at Mill City Museum. (Noon)
• The 5th Annual Onesie Bar Crawl winds through the city. (4 p.m.)
• Celebrate Minnesota music with an MMC MixTape fundraiser at Icehouse. (6 p.m.)
• The Twin Cities Jewish Humor Fest hosts Queer Comedy Night. (8 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Twin Cities architect Mohammed Lawal was inducted into the AIA College of Fellows. (Paid source: Star Tribune)
• A Twin Cities couple is trying to find the good Samaritan who helped a pregnant woman in need. (CBS)
• A new fashion exhibit is now on display at the Hennepin County Library's Cargill Gallery. (Patch)
• Registration is now open for spring sports at Minneapolis Parks! (Facebook)
• Minneapolis Public Schools officially added Eid and the Jewish high holy days to the school calendar. (MPS)

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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.