Learning about Fair State Brewing Cooperative’s financial woes, Aki’s BreadHaus’ impending move from Central Avenue and a recent vacancy at 1601 37th Ave. NE, one may wonder how this affects their landlord, Northeast Investment Cooperative (NEIC).
Mississippi River faces triple threat: nitrates, salt, carp
With Earth Day just days away, many neighborhood organizations have planned cleanup operations, some of them directed at cleaning up the Mississippi River. That got us to thinking: Just how healthy is the river?
Paul Christensen: Volunteering doesn’t end with retirement
Paul Christensen hasn’t let a little thing like retirement keep him from busily engaging with other people, much as he did during his working years. He retired in 1999 after 37 years as director of music at Columbia Heights’ First Lutheran Church and waited less than a year before plunging into an active volunteer schedule, largely with members of his congregation.
35 years of policing, Lenny Austin bids adieu as Heights police chief
Chief Lenny Austin has decided to call it quits after 35 years in police work, the last 29 with the Columbia Heights Police Department.
Deconstruction in the Heights, Better Futures helps prepare for a better commercial corner
On the southeast corner of 39th and Central avenues NE, workers in neon yellow vests and hard hats carried armloads of wood paneling and flooring to a staging area of sawhorses. A compressor hummed, punctuated by air bursts like one would hear when reroofing a house. But this handheld instrument […]
Camp Bovey: Giving kids a chance to grow for 75 years
Generations of Northeast kids have sung that song over the past 75 years. If you attended Camp Bovey, you know it well. The camp, situated in northwestern Wisconsin, has been owned and operated by East Side Neighborhood Services since 1949, but its history goes back just a little bit further.
Fighting opioids, Concern for others leads to creating Save a Life Stations
As you look around the main concourse at East Side Neighborhood Services, you’ll see the usual array of lifesaving equipment: a fire extinguisher, a defibrillator for heart attacks, a blood pressure cuff. Now, near the front door, there’s a new addition, and it looks like a newspaper vending box, but it isn’t.
“Lizard Lounge” severely damaged in hit-and-run
About 2 a.m. Saturday, March 30, a car streaked down 17th Avenue NE, jumped the curb, took out a small tree, dragged it through a parking lot, plowed through the East Side Neighborhood Services’ raised gardens and drove into ESNS’ lizard sculpture. The lizard was detached from its shed, which moved approximately two feet off its base. Police were called and a tow truck hauled away the wrecked car. No injuries were reported.
It’s April: Volunteering will do you good, Ways to give back to the community
According to the Mayo Clinic, “Volunteering reduces stress and increases positive, relaxed feelings by releasing dopamine. By spending time in service to others, volunteers report feeling a sense of meaning and appreciation, both given and received, which can have a stress-reducing effect.”
New law will put more drivers behind the wheel
A new law called “Driver’s Licenses for All” will allow many more Minnesota residents to get drivers’ licenses. COPAL-MN (Communidades Organizando el Poder y la Acción Latina) Lead Organizer Eduardo Peñasco and Driver & Vehicle Services (DVS) Program Manager Jacquelyn Eiffler took a dozen attendees at a March 14 meeting at the Columbia Heights Public Library through the steps to get licenses under the provisions of the new law.