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Wednesday December 24th 2025
Martha ”˜Annie”' Young
Feb. 24, 1942-Jan 22, 2018
“Annie” Young, a woman who lived life her way, giving more then she took and making the world a better place for all. She was so proud of the people and parks in the country”'s #1 Park system. Survived by her son and daughter in-law Shawn & Jessica Young and her three grandchildren Shawn, Sophia and Charlie Young.
Memorial services to be held outdoors on Saturday, March 17, 2018 at 10:00 am at Riverside Park in Mpls.Â
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Metro Transit – ABRT “D” Line to travel faster, less stops on Chicago Av
By JOHN CHARLES WILSON
Do you, like so many other Phillips residents, ever have occasion to ride Metro Transit”'s “legendary 5”, the Chicago Ave. bus? If so, do you dread the long, slow
ride with stops every single block, the overcrowding, the likelihood of having to listen to yet another belligerent commuter who may or may not happen to be drunk or high?
Well, the Met Council has a proposal for you! It”'s called the D Line and it promises a 20-25 percent faster ride using all articulated buses with three doors each for more comfort and easier boarding and alighting. Fare payments will work like they do on light rail; you will tap your GoTo Card or buy a ticket before you get on the bus. That means less having to listen to someone argue with the driver about the fare. If they don”'t pay, any confrontation will be with the Transit Police, who usually take the person off the bus or train to deal with them.
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Preservation group pressures City and State rescue
COURTESY MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | The fence in the background is the fence surrounding the old trolley barns on 21st and Lake. Notice the dirt roads for maintenance carts and, in their day, the old horse-drawn hearses.
After 7,000 bodies were exhumed and moved from disheveled cemetery
By SUE HUNTER WEIR
154th in a Series
In April 1919, the Minneapolis City Council voted to close Layman”'s Cemetery to future burials. What followed was the most chaotic period in the cemetery”'s history. It was a time when tall tales and extravagant claims were picked up and repeated in the newspapers. It was a time when the editorial pages of the local newspapers published dozens of letters from citizens arguing in favor of protecting the cemetery and from those who argued that the land should be cleared for commercial development or for recreational uses.
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