Civic
✂️ A man "carrying large shears" probably caused today's power outage
About 1,400 homes in the neighborhood lost power this mid-morning.
🌊 Improvements coming to Minnehaha Park
The Park Board is considering a range of options for the crumbling south slope overlook, and is hosting a public meeting and survey to gather input.
🌽 The 50th-ish-annual Longfellow Corn Feed is on Friday
The event, little known outside the neighborhood, attracts as many as 1,000 people to Longfellow Park.
✈️ We should hear fewer planes over Longfellow this summer (but more next year)
And a mercifully brief explanation of why.
🏷️ Garage sales galore this weekend
More than 70 sales are planned as part of the annual Longfellow Neighborhood Garage Sale this weekend.
🚲 The mounting case for extending the Greenway
Momentum is building to extend the award-winning bikeway into St. Paul.
⚽️ Fight continues over Minnehaha Academy soccer field upgrades
The school is asking the city for the variances it needs for its soccer field overhaul. A group of neighbors has stepped up pressure to reject or modify the plans.
🏡 LCC's popular home improvement grants go live Wendesday
The popular program helps pay for home improvements and is open to people earning up to 80 percent of the area's median income.
🚶♂️Strolling with the lightpole-famous "Men's Walking Group"
The most common billboard in the neighborhood isn’t for Kris Lindahl or TSR or Nicolet Law. It’s for the "Men's Walking Group."
🏫 Vacant Cooper School boarded up to deter intruders
The school board said it has seen fewer intrusions at other vacant schools after boarding the first-floor windows.
🌳 What are those brush piles by the river?
They’re part of a largely successful push to rid the area of a buckthorn infestation.
🚫 Don't get got: Street sweeping starts Wednesday
The twice-yearly chore of sweeping the streets of a half-year's worth of salt, sand, litter, and plant matter reaches Longfellow this week on Wednesday and Thursday, and will continue piecemeal over the next three weeks.
🚧 Hiawatha-Lake interchange closing for six months
All four ramps connecting the two roads will be closed and Lake Street will be down to one lane in either direction. But once completed, the intersection should be considerably easier to walk, roll, and drive through.
💡 Light fight brewing at Minnehaha Academy soccer field
Minnehaha Academy recently revealed its plans for installing field lights and other improvements at its upper campus soccer field.
🌳 New hope for saving Cooper Playground
Neighbors are hustling to document community support ahead of a major grant application.
🎣 An evening at the fish fry
It takes a veritable Noah's Ark of volunteers to pull off the iconic St. Albert's Friday fish fry.
