News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Monday December 15th 2025
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Compiled by CHRISTINA SMITH, Librarian at Franklin Library
All information listed here is accurate as of October 20th, 2025. For the most recent information, check out the library website at http://www.hclib.org
FRANKLIN LIBRARY HOURS
Monday 9 AM to 5 PM Tuesday 12 PM to 8 PM Wednesday 12 PM to 8 PM Thursday 12 PM to 8 PM Friday 9 AM to 5 PM Saturday 9 AM to 5 PM Sunday 12 PM to 5 PM
Closures:
Veteran’s Day, Tuesday, November 11th
Thanksgiving Day, November 27th
PROGRAMS FOR YOUTH + FAMILIES
Let’s Read!
(Grades K-5)
Except week of Thanksgiving
Tuesdays/Thursdays: 4:00 – 7:30 pm
Saturdays: 1:00 -5:00 pm
Free in-person reading support for K-5 students. Students and trained volunteer tutors meet weekly one-on-one to work on grade level reading skills.
Homework Help
(Grades K-12)
Except week of Thanksgiving
Tuesdays/Thursdays: 4:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Saturdays: 2 – 5 p.m.
Free in-person tutoring for K-12 students. No advance sign-up needed.
STEAM Workshop
(Ages 8+)
Wednesdays: 5 – 6 pm
Except week of Thanksgiving
Drop in for fun and creative STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, math) experiments and projects! Materials provided. Led by Franklin Library’s teen STEAM Squad.
Make Your Own Merch
Saturday, November 15th
1:00 – 2:30 pm
Grades 7-12.… Read the rest “Franklin Library News: Nov. ’25”
Louis Solberg, Humorous, Heroic, Helpful
Policeman Who Sang and Did So Much More
240th in the series Tales from Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery…
By SUE HUNTER WEIR
Louis Solberg quickly became one of the most respected Minneapolitans; he was an early Norwegian immigrant at age 33 in 1868.
He died thirty-nine years later.
He was buried in a grave
next to his infant son.Their graves have no markers.
However, he was described as
“one of our most gentlemanly policemen…having an excellent record for ability
and honesty.”
In 1872 he was one of the first ten patrol officers appointed after Minneapolis and St. Anthony merged. George Brackett, elected mayor in 1873, charged the Police Force with cleaning up the City. Solberg and colleagues spent much of their time on stakeouts and patrolling of saloons in the City’s Red-Light District and “cleaning the City of early-day crooks.”
There are no reports that Solberg injured or killed anyone. A few report him firing warning shots at suspects. He fired at a man who had stolen a team of oxen, at a man who was breaking into a saloon, and at a man who “refused to move on.”… Read the rest “Louis Solberg, Humorous, Heroic, Helpful”
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