Category: February 2024
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Three options prevail for Riverview Corridor streetcar project
Jake SpitzackStaff Writer Just over 25 years ago, Ramsey County began studying transit improvements for the 12-mile-long Riverview Corridor connecting Union Depot in Lowertown with the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and Mall of America (MOA) in Bloomington. That project, now dubbed the Riverview Corridor Modern Streetcar Project, ran on fumes for more than a decade… Read more
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Little Brazil Market and Café now open
By Leonor Villasuso Rustad Charles Spies is a civil engineer by trade but a food lover at heart. When he and his wife moved to Minnesota from their native Brazil six years ago, he decided it was time to follow his passion. Drawing on his family’s gastronomic roots in Brazil, he designed a concept that… Read more
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History Center hosts forum of ‘Charlie Brown’s America’
Jake SpitzackStaff Writer Charles Schulz’s famous “Peanuts” comic strip has been a mainstay of American popular culture for nearly 75 years. In fact, at the height of its popularity, half of the American public reportedly read the comic each day. The cartoon’s innocent characters were quick to turn a frown upside down but also sparked… Read more
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Displaced but not forgotten – new report addresses West Side Flats displacement
Jake SpitzackStaff Writer The West Side Community Organization (WSCO) is hosting an open house, Sunday, Feb. 11, to discuss the continuing repercussions of the displacement. The event will take place 1:30-4:30 p.m., at the Wellstone Center, 179 E. Robie St., and include small and large group discussions about living on the West Side, and a… Read more