Jodi Reeb, an artist based in the Carriage House at the Casket Arts building, 681 17th Ave. NE, recently concluded her solo exhibition “Landscapes Exposed” at St. Mary’s University in Winona, Minn. The show featured 40 mixed-media works combining encaustic painting and photo collage. 

Doug Argue is a nationally recognized painter who got his start in Minnesota in the 1980s and ’90s. He’s known for his larger-than-life paintings exploring themes such as time, perception, history, science and the infinite. But massive themes aside, the sheer scale of his paintings tells another, less conceptual story: to make big work, you need a big space.

Artspace Projects, Inc., the non-profit owner and manager of the Northrup King Building complex, held a groundbreaking ceremony at the building on Thursday, Oct. 24, to celebrate the start of their new housing development. 

On Wednesday, Oct. 30, a group of volunteers, under the direction of Minneapolis’ recycling coordinator Kellie Kish, waded through two truckloads of lettuce and other juice-oozing kitchen scraps, pumpkins, flowers, pizza boxes, takeout leftovers and more, that had been dumped on the plastic-protected concrete floor of a Northside storage building.

The council chambers at St. Anthony City Hall were packed Tuesday, Oct. 22 as members of the greater Muslim community gathered to hear the City Council’s decision on whether the old Bremer Bank building at 2401 Lowry Ave. NE would be permitted to be transformed into a school and mosque. The 60 chairs were full; people lined up against the walls and spilled out into the hallway.

The St. Anthony Police Department (SAPD) will once again patrol the streets of Falcon Heights. 

Neighbors in the area of Lowry and Marshall in Northeast have a problem, and they’re trying to raise a stink about it. Well, actually, the stink is already there. Both home owners and businesses have complained to the city of Minneapolis and the Metropolitan Council about sewer gas smell, but thus far they haven’t seen any results.

A couple of months ago, we asked readers to send us their ghost stories for this edition. Rebecca Kraker and Jeanne Erickson responded.

Sasha Sakurets is a Registered Nurse. She’s worked at the University of Minnesota Medical Center since 1998, taking care of patients in acute and critical care  wards and at the surgery center.  While working in the bone marrow transplant unit, she witnessed the power of using a body’s own blood components to treat cancers and other diseases with blood and marrow transplantation.

More than 600 people visited the St. Anthony Village Fire Department annual open house Saturday, Oct. 5.