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In the newsletter: A look back at the history of the stately schoolhouse and the apartment building it became, which respectively turn 120 and 40 years old this year.

🏫 The life and times of Simmons Elementary

The history of the stately schoolhouse and the apartment building it became, which respectively turn 120 and 40 years old this year.

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In the newsletter: A look into the phenomenon of neighborhood dog treat stations.

🦴 Dog treat stations of Longfellow

The stations have become an increasingly common sight in the neighborhood, and come in all shapes and sizes.

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In the newsletter: The Savory Bake House space won't be vacant long once the beloved neighborhood bakery moves to St. Paul later this summer. Front Porch Pies, a vegan bakery that supplies pastries for a number of Twin Cities coffee shops, will open a retail bakery in the small storefront this fall.

🥧 Front Porch Pies vegan bakery will take over the Savory Bake House space

The Savory Bake House space won't be vacant long once the beloved neighborhood bakery moves to St. Paul later this summer. Front Porch Pies, an all-purpose vegan bakery that supplies pastries for a nu...

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In the newsletter: The side hustle that started in an apartment has grown to one of the region's largest residential cleaning companies. And they've done it from a series of visible locations in Longfellow.

🧽 Two Bettys Green Cleaning turns 20

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In the newsletter: The steam-powered museum on rails — both celebrated and mocked — drew record crowds to Minnehaha Park.

🚊 When the bicentennial train came to Minnehaha Park

The steam-powered museum tour — both celebrated and mocked — drew record crowds to Minnehaha Park.

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In the newsletter: A peek inside the freshly opened Ducks on Lake, plus construction updates, boulevard plantings, commercial buildings for sale, a very large snake sighting, and much more.

☕️ June miscellanea: First look at Ducks on Lake

Plus construction updates, boulevard plantings, commercial buildings for sale, a very large snake sighting, and much more.

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In the newsletter: A local developer has pursued a shifting series of plans for the site since purchasing it in 2020.

🏗️ Work could soon begin on rehabbing the former Dragon City Cafe

A local developer has pursued a shifting series of plans for the building since purchasing it in 2020.

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In the newsletter: The new history-slash-cookbook from Sea Salt co-owner Kait Zimer-Davis and journalist Gail Rosenblum offers a glimpse into the notoriously insular institution.

📘 New book shares Sea Salt's recipes — and lore

As a longtime Minneapolis resident, Gail Rosenblum isn't sure how she'd never been to Sea Salt before 2017, the year her daughter started dating co-owner Kait Ziemer-Davis. But after that first visit,...

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In the newsletter: The latest plan for the long-boarded property, perhaps the neighborhood's most-wondered-about vacancy.

🏚️ New buyer in line for Elsa's House of Sleep building

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In the newsletter: The calendar runneth over with summer events this month.

📆 Whenever Wherever: June events calendar

A good-faith attempt to round up every event in Longfellow this month.

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The inaugural Great Longfellow Saunter is coming up on Saturday, June 6. A 10K walk around the neighborhood for no reason in particular. Free with pre-registration.

The Great Longfellow Saunter

A long neighborhood walk, for no reason in particular.

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In the newsletter: A preview of Tree House dispensary, one of at least three recreational cannabis dispensaries planned in the neighborhood, as the long-delayed retail shops legalized by the legislature in 2023 begin to proliferate across the Twin Cities.

🌲 Dispensary coming to 41st and Lake

In the newsletter: A preview of Tree House dispensary, one of at least three recreational cannabis dispensaries planned in the neighborhood.

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In the newsletter: Updates on numerous neighborhood developments, spring festivals, Laune's rhubarb trade, and much more.

🌷 Mid-May miscellanea

Numerous development updates, spring festivals, Laune's rhubarb trade, and much more.

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In the newsletter: An exclusive sneak peek at this year's variation of the unofficial neighborhood uniform, which drops Thursday.

👕 This year's East Lake Liquor t-shirt color is...

An exclusive sneak peek at this year's variation of the unofficial neighborhood uniform.

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In the newsletter: Spring bloom report, Doors Open preview, hand-painted sign rundown, restaurant updates, and much more.

🌸 April miscellanea

🏛️ Neighborhood spots at Doors Open Minneapolis The Doors Open Minneapolis Festival is coming up next weekend, May 9-10, an annual event that opens up notable buildings for public viewing across the ...

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In the newsletter: Even more coffee news! Today, details on the planned "Ducks on Lake," a second location of Duck Duck Coffee, which will take over the former Milkweed space at 39th and Lake.

☕️ "Ducks on Lake" coffee shop opening in the former Milkweed

More coffee news this week: Duck Duck Coffee will open a second location, called Ducks on Lake, in the former Milkweed space at 39th and Lake. It could open as soon as next month.

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In the newsletter: Details on the reopening of Arya Cafe, where new owners are hoping the third time's the charm for the sunny coffee shop at 46th and Minnehaha.

☕️ Arya Cafe is back

Details on the reopening of Arya Cafe, where the owners are hoping the third time's the charm for the sunny coffee shop at 46th and Minnehaha.

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In the newsletter: A new home for Lowbrow Saints Tattoo Collective, new details on the potential new Anishinabe Academy, Sea Salt opening, a new boardwalk at Minnehaha Park, Dorman Avenue eagle updates, and much more.

✒️ Mid-April miscellanea: Lowbrow Saints reopens on Minnehaha

Plus new details on the potential new Anishinabe Academy, Sea Salt opening, a new boardwalk at Minnehaha Park, Dorman Avenue eagle updates, and much more.

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Details on the expansion plans for Shepherds Table, the tiny direct-from-Minnesota-producers deli and cheese shop across from Longfellow Park, which will turn it into something closer to a full-fledged cafe.

🥪 Shepherd's Table adding a dining room next door

Details on yet another neighborhood business expanding in place.

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In the newsletter: Details on the oft-shifting plans for Longfellow residents Meena Natarajan and Dipankar Mukherjee to bring their storied Pangea World Theater to the neighborhood.

🎭 Momentum building for the new Pangea World Theater at Lake and Minnehaha

For more than a decade, Longfellow residents Meena Natarajan and Dipankar Mukherjee have been angling to move their longstanding Pangea World Theater to the neighborhood. A slew of plans have advance...

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In the newsletter: A look at neighborhood filmmaker Ajuawak Kapashesit’s project — which premieres at the MSP International Film Festival on April 14 — and the phenomenon that inspired it, which remains stubbornly unexplained after decades of investigation.

🎬 "The Boom" is an eerie short film inspired by the Longfellow Boom

The lowdown on the film and the phenomenon that inspired it, which remains stubbornly unexplained after decades of investigation.

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In the newsletter: Mutual aid updates, community ed in the neighborhood, a chance to run for the LCC board, dance parties, baseball watch parties, bouquet subscriptions, egg hunts, and much more.

🍀 Mid-March miscellanea

Mutual aid updates, community ed in the neighborhood, a chance to run for the LCC board, dance parties, baseball watch parties, bouquet subscriptions, egg hunts, and much more.

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In the newsletter: After nearly 20 years in the tight confines of its middle retail space at 47th and Lake, Corazon is about to double its size.

🎁 Corazon gift shop expanding into the old Papa Murphy's

After nearly 20 years in the tight confines of its middle retail space at West River Commons, Corazon is about to double its size. The whimsical gift shop at 46th and Lake will expand into the former ...

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In the newsletter: The south Minneapolis institution will move into the former Nostalgia Zone Comics space, part of a recent shuffle of storefronts in the historic commercial building.

💿 Famed local record store Extreme Noise moving to 36th and Lake

The south Minneapolis institution will move into the former Nostalgia Zone Comics space, part of a recent shuffle of storefronts in the historic commercial building.

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A scoop in the newsletter this morning: Details on Mixed Culture Brewing, which a pair of veteran brewery operators are building in the former One on One bike shop at 45th and Minnehaha and could open later this year.

🍺 Brewery planned for former Minnehaha Ave bike shop

Veteran brewery operators Qiuxia and Kevin Welch have purchased the former One on One Bike Shop and begun building it out into a combination brewery, coffee shop, and possible bike shop called Mixed C...

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Residents troubleshoot an irritating new noise — the ones that can hear it, anyway.

🔊 The Longfellow ...Hum?

Residents troubleshoot an irritating new noise — the ones that can hear it, anyway.

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