Archive for February, 2019
W H A T Y O U S E E
Karissa Kleven, 8, took this photo after the freshly fallen snow on Feb. 20, 2019 “because I think these trees are beautiful with the snow on them.”  To be part of our new WHAT YOU SEE feature, post a photo to your Instagram account and tag #alleynews, or email it to copydesk@alleynews.org. All ages encouraged to participate.Â
Controversy reaches crisis
Editor”'s note: The following was submitted as an open letter by Carol Pass, Cassandra Holmes, Chad Hebert, Clarence Bischoff, Dean Dovolis, Abah Mohamed, Steve Sandberg, and Jose Luis Villasenor. TESHA M. CHRISTENSENThe city threatened eminent domain to purchase the Roof Depot site in order to expand its public works facility at 26th and Hiawatha Ave, as viewed from the Sabo bridge. Neighborhood citizens want part of the property for use as an urban farm to create jobs for local residents. On Dec. 7, 2018 the Minneapolis City Council unanimously passed a resolution which we naively thought held out hope for serious community-driven green, sustainable activities in a portion of the Roof Depot site. We waited for over two months for a meeting with Council Member Alondra Cano to explain the “back doors” that appeared to have been opened in her “Staff Direction.” We then had a long-awaited meeting with City Chief Financial Officer Mark Ruff [...]
Social history set in stone
Tales fromPioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery By Sue Hunter Weir 164th in a Series Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery In June 2002, Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. For 10 years or so it was the only cemetery in Minnesota designated as an individual landmark. The cemetery”'s built environment ”“ the fence, caretaker”'s cottage and flagpole ”“ made it eligible but so did the lives of the people who are buried there.  Their stories are a significant part of the city”'s social history. It is by no means the complete history of the city during its early years but tells the story of many thousands of the city”'s early residents including thousands of immigrants and their children. In 1904, Sarah and Knut Nordeman, mother and son, entered into a suicide pact and overdosed on morphine. Knut survived but Sarah did not, and was buried in Pioneers [...]
