Rock salt seems like an unlikely artistic medium – but not to Annie Irene Hejny. 
Last April, she swept up rock salt from six parking spaces and came away with four gallons of salt, which she used to create her latest work, “Seeing Salt.” It was her capstone project, and it earned her certificate as a Minnesota Water Steward.

At age 54, Mark Sitarz looks too young to retire. But a medical incident earlier this year got him thinking about not only his health, but his life and how he wanted to spend the rest of it. As of Nov. 1, the chief of St. Anthony’s Fire Department retired
after 25 years of service. It was not an easy decision.

This wasn’t your grandmother’s PTA fundraiser. The organizers of Edison High School’s annual telethon struck gold with Davina and the Vagabonds and The Good, The Bad and The Funky.

Stanford Freese built a lifetime around music. Iowa-born and Minnesota-raised, Freese took his early skill as a tuba-playing virtuoso to become  a teacher, orchestra member, and, for the greater part of hiscareer, a musical fixture in the Disney World/Disneyland operations. 

CEC is also a story about Northeasters coming together. Founders Glodek, Hofstede and Bob Hannah (who was the treasurer for Hofstede’s mayoral campaign) attended St. Anthony of Padua Church as kids. The fourth founder emerged when Hofstede asked Archbishop John Roach for help. Roach responded by appointing Sister Ruth Roland, O.P., a Sinsinawa Dominican nun, who Glodek described as the “heart and soul” of the operation. With a background in long-term care, experience working with older adults and a persistence in organizing the group, she was also called the quarterback. Hofstede’s charisma, Glodek’s experience in the funeral home business and Hannah’s financial acumen were the other cornerstones.

Here are the election results for the coverage areas of the Northeaster. Keep up to date with who your newly elected official is here.

Nowhere Street is closer than you think. It’s in more than one place, and it keeps moving, too. It’s under bridges, and in the lobbies of bus stations late at night. Hundreds of homeless youths meander Nowhere Street every night in the U.S., and the solution to getting them off […]

The Northeast Minneapolis Chamber, with funding by the city of Minneapolis Great Streets Business Support Program, plans a self-guided audio tour of the murals along Central Avenue that were installed last summer supported by Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association and Public Functionary.

For the past few weeks, three orange and white Snorkelifts parked in front of Northeast United Methodist Church at Lowry Avenue and Cleveland Street have been hoisting masons up to work repairing the building’s brick façade. Two church members, Shirley and Bill Jackson, are spearheading the project; Shirley serves as the operations chair of the church and her husband Bill is on the operations team.

When six neighborhood associations get together to sponsor a panel discussion, you know the topic is important. When the topic is renters’ rights, you can be certain you’ll draw a crowd. Although people attending the discussion tended to drift in and out of Būch Fermentary’s big open doors, 45 attendees registered at the Oct. 11 event, and organizers counted 75 people in the room, including vendors and speakers.