Author: Community Reporter

  • “Yes, We Can” Reprised

    “Yes, We Can” Reprised

    by Deborah Padgett I confess to having recently lost all sight of the privilege it is to be alive in this imperfect wonderful/horrible world of…

  • Guitar Concert Features Local Musician

    Guitar Concert Features Local Musician

    Grammy-winning guitarist Pat Donohue (Prairie Home Companion) teams up with eclectic West End guitarist Jerry Kosak to present a concert of acoustic fingerstyle and slide guitar…

  • Food Matters: Plucking Raspberries

    Food Matters: Plucking Raspberries

    I love the brambling foods, which are so insistent, flirtatious, and charmingly disheveled. Not to mention so sharply delicious. We grow three varieties of raspberry: Caroline…

  • Birds in Particular: Butterbutts

    Birds in Particular: Butterbutts

    Warblers are captivating migratory birds that arrive near the middle of May in Minnesota. They have showy, dramatic plumage that is challenging to identify. These small,…

  • Keep Kids Cool This Summer

    Keep Kids Cool This Summer

    Help low-income children, infants to age 5, have a fun summer. Collect or purchase a hat, sunglasses, sunscreen, and mosquito spray. Volunteers of any age, individuals…

  • The Creative Spirit Alive at Linwood Monroe Arts Plus

    The Creative Spirit Alive at Linwood Monroe Arts Plus

    Linwood Monroe Arts Plus provides arts-infused curriculum for children pre-K through Grade 8 on its two local campuses: pre-K through Grade 4 at Linwood and Grades…

  • Mississippi Market 40th Anniversary Block Party

    Mississippi Market 40th Anniversary Block Party

    Mississippi Market Natural Foods Co-op started small in 1979 and now comprises three vibrant locations, a membership upwards of 18,000, and many educational and community programs that…

  • A Fitting Memorial

    A Fitting Memorial

    by Jon Kerr The treeless zipper down the hillside just across the Mississippi is painfully evident while driving down Shepard Road or even from the High…

  • Stop for Me

    Stop for Me

    Help make West 7th Street a safer street to cross. Stop for Me is a pedestrian safety event where citizens and officers cross the street together…