Neighborhoods

The Hawthorne Neighborhood needs volunteers for their annual Clean Sweep across the Hawthorne neighborhood to clean up the sidewalks and boulevards of their neighborhood! MORE »

The Hawthorne Neighborhood Council has announced the opening of the Executive Director position for the North Side neighborhood organization that serves 6,000 residents and businesses in Minneapolis. MORE »

The Bridge and Mshale, two of our community media partners, published thoughtful and thought-provoking articles this week on the murder of a Somali teen in the Cedar-Riverside area in April, and the views of friends and community as the search for the shooter continues. Read Somali teen’s murder unearths generational conflict in community by Edwin Okong’o from Mshale and Cedar-Riverside mourns death of Somali teen by Jeremy Stratton from The Bridge. MORE »

The West End of Saint Paul has always been a solid working class community with a strong sense of neighborhood pride. Over the years that pride was bruised as the neighborhood changed and residents moved away, leaving the West End as a place to pass though rather than a place to be. Population patterns changed as Interstate 35E was cut through the neighborhood in the 1970s causing the permanent loss of many homes. MORE »