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✈️ We should hear fewer planes over Longfellow this summer (but more next year)
And a mercifully brief explanation of why.
🏚 Cleanup has (slowly) begun at the former Third Precinct
The fences, barbed wire, and concrete barricades should come down later this summer.
🍔 Peppers and Fries is closing at the end of the month
Peppers and Fries, the beloved burgers-and-burritos sports bar on 39th and Lake Street, is closing June 29 after almost 10 years in business. Father-and-daughter duo Steve and Marie Frias have been planning to sunset the bar since the fall. Having recently finalized the sale of the building to a yet-undisclosed
🏷️ Garage sales galore this weekend
More than 70 sales are planned as part of the annual Longfellow Neighborhood Garage Sale this weekend.
🛶 Getting in the gorge with your neighborhood river tour guides
Paddle Bridge, whose trailer of kayaks you may have seen parked on 42nd Street, connects people to the splendor of the urban Mississippi.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: June events calendar
A roundup of hundreds of June events in Longfellow.
🕰️ Take a drive down Lake Street, 25 years ago
Strung together, these hastily taken photos provide a pretty good time-machine glimpse of what a drive down Lake Street looked like a quarter-century ago.
🚲 The mounting case for extending the Greenway
Momentum is building to extend the award-winning bikeway into St. Paul.
💸 All Square gets windfall grant
The money will help sustain All Sqaure's rapid growth from a small grilled cheese restaurant employing formerly incarcerated people to an influential criminal justice reform advocate connecting incarcerated people to legal training, and running a law firm of its own.
🦜 Bird alert: It's peak migration season in the gorge
Dave Zumeta has been meticulously documenting the birds of the river gorge for more than 35 years.
