Civic
😎 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.
