🏫 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.
🌮 Racket's Best Budget Bites: $7.50 ‘Mini’ Tacos Dorados From Mi Mexico Querido
Racket writer Em Cassel highlights the eyebrow-raising value of Mi Mexico Querido's Mini Tacos Dorados.
🌲 Exploring the Lake Street weed district
Ahead of Saturday's high holiday, a look at four Lake Street businesses staking their claim in the new market.
🌳 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.
🧵 SKY Chairs HQ moves in
Bob Anderson, who's been handmaking the hanging canvas chairs for almost 50 years, sets up shop in Longfellow.
🗓️ Whenever Wherever: April events calendar
More than 200 things to do in the neighborhood this month.
🐟 Sea Salt opens April 19
Featuring a brand new sandwich shop next door.
🏗️ Latin American Center will replace vacant O'Reilly building
The vacant auto parts shop will be demolished mid-April, with new construction planned for next summer.
🍺 Stevens House and Minnehaha Falls debauchery of yore
Debate about repairing the Stevens House at Minnehaha Park recalls a colorful vignette from the park's sordid past.
🚲 The Hub returns this weekend
The bike co-op is reopening in a smaller part of the same building March 30.
💡 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.
🍽️ A look at Lynette
A look at what the Lynette team has planned for the old Riverview Wine Bar space.
🌳 New hope for saving Cooper Playground
Neighbors are hustling to document community support ahead of a major grant application.
🏘️ The case of the missing alley
Reader question: Why are the houses on the 3100 block of 37th/38th Avenue so much newer than the surrounding area?
🎥 Love is Blind *almost* filmed in Longfellow
It would've been great publicity for the new Clay Pit pottery studio, but this neighborhood newsletter feature will have to do.
🎣 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.
🍦 Weekly Whatevers: DQ's open, dome home for sale, LoLa artists on display
Both neighborhood DQ's are now open; an iconic geodesic dome house is open for viewing; and LoLa's winter exhibition is underway.
☕ Dogwood's bold Lake Street expansion
A brand new Dogwood, plus co-working and apartments, are coming to the vacant lot next door.
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