To Alden-Conger High School student Eli Hallman.

Alden-Conger High School senior guard Eli Hallman struck big Friday night in the last 62 seconds of the boys’ basketball game against Glenville-Emmons.

With a layup, Hallman surpassed 1,000 career points to become the third in the school’s history as Knights to obtain the recognition.

The Knights haven’t had a 1,000-point scorer for 19 years, and the excitement of the crowd was evident.

Hallman led the team with an average of 15 points per game and went into this game needing 26 points to cross the hurdle. He finished with a game-high 28 points.

 

To recognition of Albert Lea’s Fountain Lake.

It’s nice to see one of Albert Lea’s local gems get recognized by people outside the community. That’s just what happened last week in a Minneapolis Star Tribune article that identified Fountain Lake as one of the seven great ice fishing lakes in southern Minnesota.

In the article an assistant regional fisheries manager with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said though southern Minnesota has never been considered a destination for ice anglers, it should be.

With all of the efforts taking place to clean up Fountain Lake and eventually get it dredged, we only expect the fishing to get better.

 

To the death of New York Times critic and media champion David Carr.

Carr, 58, died Thursday after collapsing in the newsroom of The New York Times. He had just finished moderating a panel discussion about the Oscar-nominated documentary “Citizenfour,” which chronicles Edward Snowden’s leak of National Security Agency documents.

A medical examiner is looking into the cause of his death.

Carr, who grew up in Minnesota, joined The Times in 2002 as a business reporter and over the years became known for his Media Equation column.

A former drug addict, he was also known as best-selling author of “The Night of the Gun,” a 2008 memoir about addiction and recovery.

The Time’s executive editor, Dean Baquet called Carr “the finest media reporter of his generation.”

We join with the rest of the nation in grieving his loss.