Election Day

November 3 is your last chance to get your voice heard in this election. Find your polling place at pollfinder.sos.state.mn.us. If you have not pre-registered…
Overcoming Racism Conference

Virgil Mountain (Blacklance) led an opening ceremony at 2018 Overcoming Racism Conference. This year’s virtual conference Nov. 13-14 will explore, through an anti-racist lens, how…
Keystone Spaghetti Dinner Postponed

Like many other events impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, so too is the annual Spaghetti Dinner normally held at the West 7th Community Center. We…
Audacity Revisited

by Deborah PadgettGeorge Floyd’s killing, Elijah Cummings’ and John Lewis’s deaths have left me humbled, helpless and grief stricken. I cannot be silent because silence…
Garden Views: Time to Think About Flowering Spring Bulbs

Early October is a perfect time to think about planting some of those fabulous spring flowering bulbs. I have planted Asiatic Lilies as late as…
Birds in Particular: Sound Scapes, Squirrels

by Halle O’Falvey The other morning, just after sunrise, I walked down the stairs to my urban country kitchen. I pulled back the Irish lace…
Weak Link in the Transit Triangle: Riverview Corridor

BY GREG STRUVE The fate of the final leg of the long-anticipated “Transit Triangle” will be decided in December. At that time, the Riverview Corridor…
COVID-19 – Recommendations as the pandemic drags on

by Jonathan Dickman, MD, PhD As we approach a half of a year of working from home, distance learning and Zoom meetings, many people have…
West End Artist Profile: Kelly Ludeking

I grew up in the Midwest on a traditional farm—dairy, beef, pigs and all the crops to feed them and us—where I absorbed a great…