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📆 Whenever Wherever: October events calendar
A good-faith attempt to round up every event in Longfellow this month.
🏫 Anishinabe Academy might not move to the Cooper School site, after all
The plan to demolish the building and replace it with a newly-built facility for Anishinabe Academy could be scrapped in favor of a different site.
🏃 September miscellanea
Marathon watching tips, seasonal business closures, construction updates, daredevil hijinks, and much more.
🏫 "Like never-ending summer camp": Becketwood senior co-op turns 40
Inside Becketwood senior co-op, where the most distinctive feature isn't the idyllic riverside campus, but how really, very, extremely, almost-comically engaged most residents are in the enterprise.
📚 Hiawatha-Howe Elementary could close in district restructuring proposals
A deep dive on the neighborhood impact of proposed sweeping changes to school district boundaries.
🍽️ First look: Square Roots restaurant
Square Roots has opened at 27th and Lake, though you'll be forgiven if you haven't heard about it.
☕️ Mid-September misc.: Arya Cafe has closed (again)
Arya Cafe closed last week, the third abrupt ending for the 46th and Minnehaha coffee shop space.
🏗️ Developer unveils plans for Nokomis Mill site at 35th and Hiawatha
Financing is coming together for a redevelopment of the former Nokomis Mill at 35th and Hiawatha. But the corner will stay in its current dilapidated state for at least another year.
📆 Whenever Wherever: September events calendar
A good-faith attempt to round up every event in Longfellow this month.
🚧 August miscellanea: Monthslong construction will soon begin at 46th and Hiawatha
A four-month project to reconstruct the 46th and Hiawatha intersection will begin next week, creating a traffic bottleneck at the intersection that handles more than 30,000 cars per day. Between September 8 and some time in December, Hiawatha will be reduced to one lane in each direction between
🦺 "Ambassadors" pilot brings extra TLC to beleaguered Lake and Minnehaha area
Groups of yellow-vested ambassadors have been working the area around Lake and Minnehaha since July, hoping a friendly presence can put a dent in the rise of antisocial behavior in the area.
🌲 Team behind Elevated liquor store opening an adjoining dispensary
The owners of Elevated Beer Wine and Spirits at 41st and Hiawatha are preparing to open a cannabis dispensary on the other end of their building next week.
☀️ Mid-August miscellanea
Several important buildings for sale, grain mill activity, state fair transit tips, a new ice cream option, and much more.
🎸 The Hook and Ladder turns 10
The venue has survived a tumultuous 10 years at Lake and Minnehaha, and is now preparing to further expand its programming.
📆 Whenever Wherever: August events calendar
A good-faith attempt to round up every event in Longfellow this month.
🌞 July miscellanea
A new shop in a long-vacant space, more dog treat stations, leadership change at Redesign, whimsical graffiti, and much more.
🏫 The life and times of Simmons Elementary
The history of the stately schoolhouse and the apartment building it became, which respectively turn 120 and 40 years old this year.
🦴 Dog treat stations of Longfellow
From mounted boxes to plastic bins to incognito tupperware, there are evermore places to find a complimentary dog treat in the neighborhood.
🍞 Mid-July miscellanea: Laune Bread is pausing, then scaling back
Plus updates on marquee events, utility work, notable trees, expanded hours, and tech upgrades throughout the neighborhood.
🥧 Front Porch Pies vegan bakery will take over the Savory Bake House space
The Savory Bake House space won't be vacant long once the beloved neighborhood bakery moves to St. Paul later this summer. Front Porch Pies, an all-purpose vegan bakery that supplies pastries for a number of Twin Cities coffee shops, will open a retail bakery in the small
🧽 Two Bettys Green Cleaning turns 20
From a series of visible Longfellow locations, the company has grown into one of the region's largest residential cleaners.
🚂 When the bicentennial train came to Minnehaha Park
The steam-powered museum on rails — both celebrated and mocked — drew record crowds to Minnehaha Park.
📆 Whenever Wherever: July events calendar
A good-faith attempt to round up every event in Longfellow this month.
☕️ June miscellanea: First look at Ducks on Lake
Plus construction updates, boulevard plantings, commercial buildings for sale, a very large snake sighting, and much more.
🍽️ "Square Roots" restaurant taking over the old Lagniappe space
A new restaurant and coffee shop are set to open soon in the Historic Coliseum Building at 27th and Lake, a key commercial space that has sat vacant since the short-lived Lagniappe Restaurant and Du Nord Cocktail Room closed more than a year ago.
