Civic
🏘️ Push to rename Edmund Boulevard gaining momentum
The idyllic street is named for a land developer who pioneered the use of racially restrictive deeds in Minneapolis.
📚 MPS eyeing vacant Cooper School for new home of Anishinabe Academy
A task force recommended the site as the permanent home for the academy, which has shared a building with Sullivan STEAM School since 2009.
⛸ Temporary “all-weather” skating rink and sauna coming to the old U.S. Bank site
There will be signs of life for the remainder of the month at 2800 East Lake, the vacant former U.S. Bank property.
🚊 A look at plans for the Lake Street LRT station overhaul
The station will undergo a full renovation next year.
🏭 Vacant Nokomis Mill may soon come down
ADM is seeking approval to demolish the mill it shuttered in 2019, with an early-stage plan to sell the site for apartment redevelopment.
❄️ January Whatevers: Monthly miscellanea
The possible return of Open Streets, the future of 3000 Minnehaha, aspiring wordsmiths at Sanford Middle, and more.
🚀 Who is shooting in Brackett Park?
Neighbors and officials met Monday to troubleshoot a new trend of people firing guns in the park late at night.
🚍 Bus fare just got cheaper. Let's ride the neighborhood routes.
Everywhere a bus or train can take you in the neighborhood.
🧊 The 42nd Ave ice tower
Nate Rylander's latest front-yard attention grabber.
🎁 December Whatevers: Monthly miscellanea
Updates on the Hiawatha-Lake interchange, Cooper playground, gift card deals, NYE events, historical holiday cheer, and more.
🌍 "Longfellow Welcomers" sponsor three refugee families through federal program
It's a daunting commitment to take part in the Welcome Corps program, but that didn't stop 27 neighbors on short notice.
💸 4 neighborhood earmarks in the 2025 city budget
The heavily amended budget provides specific funding for a few neighborhood projects in 2025.
✨ The 41st/42nd Avenue boulevard lights are on
The annual lighting of the radiant holiday corridor.
🍁 November Whatevers: Notes and miscellanea
The latest at Elsa's House of Sleep, a condemnation scare and playground progress at Cooper School, the evolving fight against streetlight copper theft, Francis's grand opening, trouble at Zaza Cannabis, a cozy winterscape at Audrey Rose Vintage, and much more.
🏈 Skol! The Vikings house just got a fresh coat of purple
Mary and Paul Uphoff first painted their Minnehaha Avenue home a Vikings-inspired purple more than 30 years ago.
🍂 October Whatevers: Notes and miscellanea
Updates on Francis, the Third Precinct, new happy hours, Community Hops Garden, and more.
🚔 What we know about the recent shootout(s) at 34th and Lake
A forced eviction is pending for the promoter who has been throwing large, unlicensed parties associated with the incidents.
🎃 100 spooky yards
A highlight reel (and map) of the neighborhood's most ghoulish decor.
📚 After parent pressure, Hiawatha will no longer have the two largest first-grade classrooms in the district
A look at the fight against crowded classrooms at Hiawatha-Howe Community School, where three teachers were cut this year despite steady enrollment.
🚧 Hiawatha-Lake interchange will stay closed until December
An update on the major reconstruction, which promises to make the complicated junction more palatable no matter how you traverse it.
😎 The guy in the chair at the falls
Most non-winter days since he retired 12 years ago, Jerry Miller fires up his Harley-Davidson and rambles down the river road from his home in Seward to Minnehaha Park. Once there, he sets up his camp chair in the same shady spot between Sea Salt and the Falls, tunes his
🚲 Aboard the Husky Bike Train
Tagging along with the gang of intrepid pedalers who ride to school every day — rain, shine, sleet or snow.
🏃♀️ 5 neighborhood spots to watch the marathon
Longfellow's stretch of the river road offers some of the best spectating locales for the Twin Cities Marathon, which will draw 300,000 spectators and 8,000 runners on Sunday morning.
🎨 Anita White turns the sketchbook on herself
Anita White is one of 120 artists showing their work across the neighborhood this weekend, debuting an inward-looking book at the LoLA art crawl she helped launch.
🎨 Weekend paint-a-thon will complete transformation of 36th Ave Bridge
A unique partnership of students, artists, and neighbors have led the transformation.
🚔 What we know about this morning's active shooter incident inside a Minnehaha Ave apartment building
A chaotic situation involving an active shooter inside an apartment building at 40th and Minnehaha Avenue ended with police shooting the suspect around 4:30 this morning.
🥬 Farm to sidewalk: 35th Ave's little free produce library
Becky Franklin's family can only eat so much asparagus and bok choy. So, every Friday morning after picking up her CSA produce haul, she plucks out what she thinks they'll use and leaves the rest in a cooler outside her house on the 3400 block of
💼 New LCC director joins group at time of existential crossroads
The plum funding that brought neighborhood groups to prominence in the 90s and 2000s has dried up, leaving many facing consolidation, austerity, or dissolution.
🎡 What happened to the Longfellow School playground?
Most of the playground, which has served as the immediate area's de facto play area for more than 100 years, was quietly removed last summer.
🗑 Plogging the river gorge with Andy Lambert
He's kept up the near-daily ritual of picking up river litter as he jogs for three years, and is hosting a neighborhood group jog to celebrate.
