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.
