Federation Update

fortroadfederation.org Upcoming Meetings, via Zoom Info: fortroadfederation.org/calendar• Transportation & Land Use Committee, Wed, 5/3, 6:30 p.m. • Board Meeting – Mon, 5/8, 7 p.m.• Community Engagement/ Outreach…
Secure Choice as a retirement option

District Perspectives Navigating financial decisions can be confusing and stressful, especially when it comes to long-term saving. Setting a budget for the week, month or…
Preventing falls and staying healthy

West End Healthline By Anna Dovre, MDIf you’ve ever lived through a Minnesota winter, you’re certainly no stranger to the “penguin walk,” that goofy way…
The Little Prince: Love, loss and compassion

The Little Prince is a beautiful little book of nearly 100 pages. In those pages lies a story that has never been told before, from…
Brianna Trinidad Sprung, new West 7th Library manager

Hello West 7th Community! My name is Brianna Trinidad Sprung, and I am the new Library Manager for the West 7th Library. If you’ve visited…
Notebook Recollections: Walk This Way

Local icon Tim Rumsey walked to work most days from 1987 to 2000. He began as a form of exercise but kept at it for…
Ramsey County commits to bold vision of RiversEdge in downtown

City Perspective By Ramsey County Commissioner District 5 Rafael Ortega In 2020, the COVID-19 global pandemic brought many things to a screeching halt, including the RiversEdge…
Spiders and the Hierarchy of Caste

Building an Antiracist Community By Tim Johnson We called him Spider. He was thin and gangly, not unlike many spiders, particularly the one most familiar to…
Navigating body piercings safely

West End HealthlineBy Lydia Tortorici, MDPiercings for decorative, religious, spiritual, and cultural purposes have been used for thousands of years. Given their current surge in popularity,…