Minneapolis Parks is sponsoring another movie in Audubon Park this Friday, August 29th, starting at dusk.

The movie will be the 2007 blockbuster Transformers. Bring your family and friends, blankets, lawn chairs, and popcorn!

The public is invited to comment on the Neighborhood Revitalization Program (NRP) Work Group’s final report, which recommends the focus, funding and governance of the NRP as well as options for strengthening community engagement in all aspects of the City’s partnership with neighborhood organizations.

The Minneapolis City Council Committee of the Whole received the final report at its July 24 meeting, and will hear community input at a meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 20 at 5 p.m. in City Council Chambers, room 317 of City Hall, 350 S. Fifth St.

The Annual Northeast Farmers' Market Corn Feed will take place this Saturday, August 16th, from 9:00 am - 1:00 pm. It will be held in the St. Boniface Church parking lot at 7th and University Avenues NE.

Colin Mullen, a brewer at Barley John’s Brewpub in New Brighton and Laura Fryberger, owner of the local event planning company, Flings Event Design, purchased their Arthur Street bungalow in the Audubon Park neighborhood in May 2008, just a few months before their scheduled wedding in September of 2008.

The couple rented one unit of a duplex on Buchanan Street for 3 years prior to the decision to buy in the neighborhood. Laura loves the feeling of community and connection to the Northeast arts scene. Colin likes the quick and convenient access to downtown, his workplace, and all necessary goods like Eastside Co-op and the Quarry businesses.

Northeast Minneapolis is featured in a Mpls.St.Paul Magazine article as a great neighborhood for new home buyers:

Hipness walking hand in hand with practicality are critical facets of Northeast’s allure. It’s a mid-twentieth-century neighborhood with twenty-first-century amenities and ease of access to the best of metropolitan culture.

It’s that time of year again! Hot July temperatures and lack of rainfall are stressing trees. As a result the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board (MPRB) Forestry Division urges residents to water their trees, especially young trees planted on boulevards. .”We really need residents to step forward to help us maintain these new trees by watering them once or twice a week as we deal with dry conditions,” says Paul Domholt, Community Forestry Coordinator.

Pierce Street Sunset, December 2007
© Mark Fox

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is pleased to announce that reconstruction of 3.3 miles of bike trails along St. Anthony Parkway in Northeast Minneapolis is complete.

The 32-year-old trail from the Camden Bridge (at 37th Ave. NE) east to Ulysses St. NE was replaced with a 10 ft. wide bituminous path. From Ulysses St. NE east to Stinson Parkway the sidewalk on the north side was removed and a 10-foot wide concrete combined pedestrian and bike path was installed.