July 8, 2019 Community Reporter 2 min read

West End Artist Profile: Sid Korpi

Artist, teacher, actor, author, wedding officiant, editor, dog-walker, dancer and animal chaplain — Sid Korpi is a Renaissance woman now

July 8, 2019 Community Reporter 0 min read

Sibley Plaza major facelift underway

After years of deterioration, Sibley Plaza is heading for a major facelift to be anchored by an Aldi’s Grocery Store.

July 8, 2019 Jerry Rothstein 3 min read

by Jerry Rothstein The idea of “community engagement” has emerged in recent years to offer a new way for government

June 3, 2019 Community Reporter 2 min read

I love the brambling foods, which are so insistent, flirtatious, and charmingly disheveled. Not to mention so sharply delicious. We grow

June 3, 2019 Jerry Rothstein 2 min read

by Jerry RothsteinAmidon Graphics is one of the West End’s hidden enterprises. Over its 65 years the commercial printer has developed

June 3, 2019 Jerry Rothstein 2 min read

by Jerry Rothstein After a major rehab of the old used car lot at West 7th and Jefferson the place

June 3, 2019 Community Reporter 2 min read

by Jon Kerr The treeless zipper down the hillside just across the Mississippi is painfully evident while driving down Shepard Road

June 2, 2019 Community Reporter 3 min read

by Jonathan Dickman, MD, PhD In April, a second grade student brought his parent’s gun to my son’s school. Luckily, nobody

by Joe Landsberger The West End is exceptional. But how did its volunteers and a committee join gardens and history, and