Midway Neighborhood News and Events

The Hamline Midway neighborhood is known as active, family-friendly, and full of amenities.

Numerous civic groups address local issues from urban greening to engaging youth and elders. Shops, parks, recreation centers, restaurants, and a library are right in the neighborhood making it easy for Hamline-Midway residents to walk and bike to local destinations.Hamline University and nearly a dozen other educational institutions dot the neighborhood, drawing learners from around the metro area and beyond.

The neighborhood is centrally located between both downtowns and the State Fairground, served by high-frequency bus service and the future Central Corridor Light Rail line, and has easy access to I-94.

(Description from livemsp.org)

For detailed demographic information, see the neighborhood profile from Minnesota Compass. 

NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | New location for Mosaic on a Stick

By Maggie Pearson, Neighborhood Notes

The Hamline Midway store and studio Mosiac on a Stick has moved from Snelling Avenue to a new location at 1564 Lafond Avenue.  This neighborhood establishment now occupies the old Hamline Park

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ReNewell Project aims to restore historic Saint Paul oak grove

By Daniel Surman, TC Daily Planet

A screencap of a map of landmark trees identified by the forestry unit of the City of Saint Paul, taken from the city's website. The Newell oak grove was nominated to the landmark trees list in 2010 by Anna McCulloch.

As planning begins for this year's Heartwood Festival, an unusual partnership between the city of Saint Paul, the University of Minnesota and the Hamline Midway Coalition has planted the seeds for

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"El Rancho Azul" by Dale Watson and His Lone Stars is a fine, beer-soaked outing

By Dwight Hobbes, Sounding Off On Sound

Red House Records is two for two with rockabilly veteran Dale Watson.

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Ax-Man Surplus: In spite of light rail, a family affair

By Daniel Surman, TC Daily Planet

One of the managers of Ax-Man, Ben, helps a pair of customers at the register. Photo by Daniel Surman.

Packed into an old building at the corner of University and Fry, Ax-Man Surplus does not seem particularly noteworthy from the outside.

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Groundswell Coffee's big new deals in St. Paul: $5 or $1,000?

By Mary Jane LaVigne, TC Daily Planet

Coffee pourover (from Groundswell website)

Talk about a bottomless cup — at Groundswell Coffee in the Hamline Midway neighborhood they’re taking it to extremes. $1000 buys you membership in the Founder’s Club, and one free beer, glass of wine, or cup of brewed coffee every day for the rest of your life.

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