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County Converting Aqua Motel to Affordable Housing The Hennepin County Board has approved purchasing and rehabilitating the Aqua Motel at 5719 Lyndale Avenue South to provide permanent single room …
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Sandy Forseth will be creating a chalk mandala for “Art on the Edge” in Linden Hills on Saturday, July 23. Learn more about her.
Tell me a little about who Sandy is…I am a …
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By Suzie Marty
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7/13/22
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Hope comes in many sizes and colors these days. And although it is a four-letter word, it can also be spelled in five letters: SOLAR. It’s not every church in south Minneapolis that invested in …
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By Beth Waterhouse
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7/13/22
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LYNLAKE STREET ART SERIES The 2022 LynLake Street Art Series is back for its fifth year July 16-17, and is looking for volunteers. Over 50 artists will visit LynLake and Uptown to paint over 30 …
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7/13/22
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Hennepin County Fair results are in. Forty-one 4-H youth from the county participated in the 4-H project judging at the Hennepin County Fair June 16-19, held at Corcoran Lions Park. In total over 80 …
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7/13/22
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It’s gardening season and if you’re like me, you’re frantically reading books like “Gardening for Dummies” while incessantly checking your garden to see if those seeds …
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By
Kenzie Imhoff
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7/13/22
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The 27th Avenue block between Lake and 31st Street bustled with community life. The block included a Latino night club, a popular Indian-Bangladeshi restaurant, and a community organization serving …
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It has been a little more than four months since Minneapolis Office of Performance and Innovation launched the Behavioral Crisis Response (BCR) team’s pilot project, Canopy Roots. It is the …
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A bodacious birthday bash draws far-flung fans. What took so long?To create something entirely new, never seen, touched or heard before – something that resonates deeply with the beholder …
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By SUSAN SCHAEFER
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6/21/22
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Amid complaints of a racist work environment raised by city employees and with a Human Resources investigation underway, a divided Minneapolis City Council approved the mayor’s nomination of …
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The Democratic Farmer Labor (DFL) Senate District 62 primary race between first-term incumbent Omar Fateh and union leader Shaun Laden is heating up as Fateh is facing questions about past campaign …
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By CAM GORDON
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6/21/22
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This is part of a series about the 2022 municipal elections by the League of Women Voters Minneapolis.
In November, you won’t see an obvious question on the ballot like last year’s …
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6/21/22
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The primary election on August 9 will determine the candidates for the general election. The top vote-getter in each primary race will appear on the ballot in November. In Minnesota, any registered …
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6/21/22
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This is part of a series about the 2022 municipal elections by the League of Women Voters Minneapolis. The Hennepin County Elections office has sene out postcards to registered voters. You may find …
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6/21/22
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A consortium of Hennepin County Leagues of Women Voters (Brooklyn Park/Osseo/Maple Grove, Crystal/New Hope/East Plymouth/Robbinsdale, Edina, Golden Valley, Minneapolis, Minnetonka/Eden …
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6/21/22
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The Washburn Water Tower was built in 1932 by the Minneapolis Water Department. Located in the Tangletown neighborhood, the water tower is perched on the highest hill in the area and overlooks much …
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By
Tom Balcom,
neighborhood historian
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6/19/22
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People gathered May 25-28, 2022 to commemorate the 2nd angelversary of George Floyd’s death. Others lost to police violence were remembered, and their families, who continue to push for change, …
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6/16/22
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Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a multi-system disease that causes dysfunction of neurological, immune, endocrine, and energy metabolism systems. Billy Hanlon, a …
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Back in 2013, I was a seventh grader who took a trip to Washington, D.C. for a family wedding. In the midst of a government shutdown, we decided to go to a National Geographic Museum. It was one of …
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6/16/22
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In 2011, Our Streets Minneapolis hosted its first event on two miles of Lyndale Avenue. Since then, over 575,000 people have attended Open Streets events. After a pause in 2020 and a scaled down …
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