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A Wave of Yard Sales Is About to Sweep the Lake-District Blocks
The annual Neighborhood Super Sale brings more than 100 coordinated yard sales across East Isles, Lowry Hill, the Wedge and neighboring areas.
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East Isles Settles Into Its Season of Porch Visits and Park Picnics
The East Isles Neighborhood Association holds its free Summer Social on Wednesday, June 24, anchoring a season of neighborhood gatherings near Lake of the Isles.
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After the Annual Meeting, the Wedge Turns to Its Summer Volunteers
The Lowry Hill East Neighborhood Association is leaning on volunteers for its busy summer calendar, with its signature Mega Mueller Market set for Saturday, June 6, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Mueller Park.
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Biking the Lakes: A Loop Worth Building a Day Around
The Kenilworth and North Cedar Lake trails reopened in March 2026 after nearly seven years of closure for light-rail construction, restoring the bike link between the Chain of Lakes, downtown Minneapolis and the western suburbs.
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An Acre in the City: The Estates That Defined Lowry Hill
The Charles J. Martin House at 1300 Mount Curve Avenue, a 14,300-square-foot mansion on nearly an acre of Lowry Hill, last carried an asking price of $5.995 million through the Berg Larsen Group.
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The Garden's Quieter Icons Reward a Second Look
Theaster Gates's "Black Vessel for a Saint" rewards the kind of slow, repeat visit that the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden's most photographed work, "Spoonbridge and Cherry," rarely gets.
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The Wedge Within the Bde Maka Ska-Isles Community
Lowry Hill East, the Minneapolis neighborhood known as the Wedge, is home to more than 9,000 residents packed into a triangle of dense blocks between three of the city's busiest commercial streets.
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How to Get Involved: A Neighbor's Guide to Showing Up
The lowest-commitment way to get involved on Lowry Hill is a Saturday morning: the neighborhood association's monthly Service Saturdays meet at Sebastian Joe's, 1007 W. Franklin Ave., on the third Saturday from 10 to 11:30 a.m. for a walking litter and storm-drain cleanup, with no sign-up required.
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Birdsong Returns as the Banks Go Native
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board's plan for Lake of the Isles calls for replacing eroding turf banks with native sedges and grasses, work meant to hold soil, filter runoff and return wildlife to the shoreline.
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Big Hill Books and the Case for a Walkable District
Big Hill Books, the general-interest bookstore Beth Thompson opened at 405 Penn Ave. S. in July 2023, has become a fixture of Bryn Mawr's small business district.
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The Walking Loop as the Neighborhood's Living Room
The loop around Lake of the Isles is where many Lowry Hill residents actually run into their neighbors, which makes the Park Board's upkeep of it as much social maintenance as environmental.
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Bike Culture Runs Through the Wedge
With Hennepin Avenue's new protected bikeway open on the Wedge's western edge, the fight over Lyndale Avenue on the eastern edge will decide whether the neighborhood gets a matching lane.
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Since 1988, Millions Have Walked the Sculpture Garden
The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden has drawn millions of visitors to the foot of Lowry Hill since it opened in 1988, and it still admits anyone free, every day.
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70 Neighborhood Organizations, One City: How LHENA Fits In
The Lowry Hill East Neighborhood Association is one of 70 nonprofit neighborhood organizations the City of Minneapolis recognizes to give residents a formal role in how the city governs itself.
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MPS Warns of Layoffs Amid $75 Million Budget Gap
Minneapolis Public Schools cut about 400 positions, including roughly 116 teachers, to close a $75 million shortfall in its 2025-26 budget.
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The Thomas Lowry House and a Vanished Corner of the Hill
The Karl Bitter memorial to streetcar magnate Thomas Lowry was moved to Smith Triangle on Hennepin Avenue in 1967 to make way for Interstate 94 and the Lowry Hill Tunnel, one of several ways the freeway reshaped the neighborhood that carries his name.
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Design Has a Permanent Seat at the Walker's Table
The Walker Art Center has treated graphic and industrial design as collectible art since its founding, a stance that dates to its first director and runs through its current in-house design studio.
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Bryn Mawr's Civic Calendar Knits a Small Neighborhood Together
Bryn Mawr, a neighborhood of about 2,768 people, runs a full year of neighborhood events through its volunteer-led association, from a December street festival to a summer ice cream social.
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A Final Summer of Hennepin Construction, Then Relief
After two years and about $36 million, the rebuilt stretch of Hennepin Avenue South reopened to two-way traffic at the end of October 2025.
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Fishing the Isles Without Leaving the Neighborhood
Lake of the Isles holds bluegill, crappie, largemouth bass and northern pike, and decades of restoration that cleared the Chain of Lakes have made the urban fishing better.
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Faith Communities Quietly Anchor Neighborhood Life
Seven congregations anchor Lowry Hill and the blocks around it, several of them more than a century old and among the largest gathering spaces in an otherwise residential neighborhood.
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The Lyndale Corridor and the Question of Bike Lanes
Hennepin County's plan to rebuild Lyndale Avenue South, the Wedge's eastern boundary, has drawn criticism from bike and transit advocates who say earlier designs left cyclists riding in traffic.
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The Walker Bets on Emerging Artists Alongside the Famous Names
The Walker Art Center regularly gives gallery space to artists the wider public has not caught up to, hanging their work in the same seasons as established names.
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Canoeing the Chain, From Isles to Cedar and Beyond
A paddler can launch on Lake of the Isles and reach Cedar Lake and Bde Maka Ska through connecting channels without ever loading the boat back onto a car.
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LHENA to Honor Standout Neighbors at Annual Meeting
The Lowry Hill East Neighborhood Association honors residents by name at its annual meeting, recognizing volunteers for contributions that otherwise go unrecorded.
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Winter on the Isles: When the Loop Belongs to the Walkers
A grassroots petition with nearly 3,000 signatures saved the Lake of the Isles skating rink from closure in late 2025, and the fight showed how much the neighborhood prizes its winter season.
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Profile: The Crossing Guard Everyone Knows
The crossing guards who staff corners outside lakes-area schools are among the least celebrated public-safety workers in the neighborhood, and among the most missed when a corner goes uncovered.
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The Canoe Rack Lottery: Storing a Boat on the Isles
A seasonal canoe or kayak rack on Lake of the Isles costs Minneapolis residents $325, and demand routinely outruns the roughly 600 spots the Park Board awards each year by lottery.
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Profile: Bryn Mawr's Unofficial Event Engine
The Bryn Mawr Neighborhood Association runs a year-round calendar of volunteer-staffed events, from its summer Ice Cream Social to a neighborhood garage sale that dates to the 1970s.
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The Highest Point in Minneapolis Is in Your Neighborhood
The Charles J. Martin House, a 1903 landmark at 1300 Mount Curve Avenue, crowns the Lowry Hill ridge that gives the neighborhood its name.
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Profile: A Food Share Volunteer Behind the Black Awning
The LHENA Food Share, run entirely by volunteers, distributes free groceries to more than 100 households each month at SpringHouse Ministries on Lyndale.
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An Accessible Walk Among Forty Sculptures
The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, free to enter and rebuilt with level paths in 2017, makes its collection of more than 40 works reachable for visitors of varying mobility.
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Meet Your Neighbor: A Wedge Renter on Why She Never Leaves
In the renter-heavy Wedge, daily life fits within a few walkable blocks, anchored by the Wedge Co-op and a civic life built to include tenants.
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Profile: The Room Parent Who Never Left
The Kenwood Community School PTA runs on a roster of named events and chronic volunteer need, the kind of work that depends on a few people who keep showing up year after year.
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Lowry Hill East's Historic District and the Streetcar Houses
The Lowry Hill East Residential Historic District preserves streetcar-era homes on the 2300 and 2400 blocks of Aldrich, Bryant and Colfax Avenues South.
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From Groveland to Lowry Hill: A Gallerist's New Chapter
Andrea Bubula, former director of Groveland Gallery, opened Lowry Hill Gallery at 1009 W. Franklin Ave. on March 7, 2026.
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Winter Saturnalia Warms Bryn Mawr's Coldest Months
Bryn Mawr's Saturnalia, the neighborhood's December winter festival, drew residents to Penn Avenue South for music, crafts and bonfires.
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The Drain Adopter: One Resident's Quiet Crusade
Minneapolis residents can adopt a storm drain and keep leaves and trash out of the water that flows to Lake of the Isles.
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The Wedge Food Share and a Neighborhood That Feeds Itself
The Lowry Hill East Neighborhood Association is raising $8,000 to keep its all-volunteer Wedge Neighborhood Food Share running through 2026.
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Stabilizing the Bank With Native Vegetation, Almost Everywhere
The Cedar-Isles plan adopted in 2023 makes native shoreline vegetation the default along Cedar Lake and Lake of the Isles, except at formal access points.
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