Finally we see what this snowman's (not) made of
Julie Horak sent this photo from Arthur Street as the fat flakes began to fall Wednesday afternoon. Upload your photo or video to show what it looks like on your street.
Fridley would be blanketed with nice, fresh snow if it were colder.
As if the cancellation of the first week of broomball at Commons Park on Monday wasn't bad enough, it has been raining in fits and starts for about 24 hours, starting Tuesday evening. Or is that a good thing—because it's not cold?
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The Minneapolis landmark church was the top vote-getter in Partners in Preservation's Facebook voting.
The Basilica of St. Mary in downtown Minneapolis gained the most votes in a competition for preservation funds, the organization Partners in Preservation announced on Facebook Thursday afternoon. Facebook was also where voting by the public took place. Nearly 28,000 people voted, according to Partners in Preservation. Within 15 minutes of the announcement about the winner being posted on Facebook, 70 people had "liked" the announcement, while 14 comments expressed mostly disappointment about the winner. The Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts in Fridley, formerly the Banfill Tavern, was one of the 25 sites in the running for as much as $125,000 of $1 million that Partners in Preservation intends to grant to Twin Cities historic sites for …
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Google Street View offers instant climate change just by crossing a street or zooming in.
The saying goes that if you don't like Minnesota's weather, just wait a minute and it'll change. But people who poke around online on Google Street View don't even have to wait that minute. At 73rd and Old Central avenues NE in Fridley, for example, all you have to do is (virtually) cross the street. Using Google Street View, the view looking north on Old Central just south of 73rd is bright and sunny. But move north one click through the intersection and the sky clouds over and the trees lose their leaves on what clearly is a different, late fall day. If you want more change, zoom in on the scene to either side of Old Central and you suddenly get snow. It's an illustration of how Google stitches together pictures that its camera-trucks …
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The local version of the Occupy Wall Street demonstration started Friday in Minneapolis.
Hundreds of people gathered in downtown Minneapolis Friday for the first day of the OccupyMN demonstration. They came from big cities, suburbs and Greater Minnesota, united in disatisfaction with current economic, and to some extent political, conditions. The crowd in the plaza between Minneapolis City Hall and the Hennepin County Government Center swelled to as many as 1,000 over the noon hour, with placard-carrying protesters mixing with lunching office workers and the merely curious. The main activity of the demonstrators was mingling, strolling and admiring each other's signs. One corner of the plaza was a sign-making workshop; on the other side was a free food stand. OccupyMN is an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street protests over the …
9:07 am on Saturday, October 8, 2011
The ppl who are part of OccupyWallStreet are from various ideals, but they all agree that corporations having too much influence in our Justice/Gov is not a good thing. Many have said the don't disagree with capitalism, just disagree with unchecked power of it. more ›
The event to support victims of sexual violence was organized by a Fridley resident.
Hundreds of women, men and children marched along the central Minneapolis riverfront Saturday for the first local SlutWalk, an event to support victims of sexual violence that was organized by Fridley resident Kimberlia Sherva.
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1:08 pm on Sunday, October 2, 2011
Thanks for the wonderful photo's! You got some great ones of my friends and I! This is such a great cause and I am glad that is is being noticed! more ›
Watch what's happening right now at the Fridley Patch Breaking News live video channel, as it becomes available.
The Slutwalk Minneapolis event was organized by Fridley resident Kimberia Sherva. The livestream video clips can be replayed at any time, but they will appear as audio-only at first, until the UStream videos are done processing.
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Local rally and march is part of international movement.
See also: 100 photos from the event. October ends with Anoka's parade of costumed marchers. Costumed walkers in the Oct. 1, 2011, SlutWalk in Minneapolis will have a much different message: Rape is Rape and No Means No and that the "rape culture" we live in needs to change. Kimberia Sherva, one of the organizers of the event, is from Fridley and is a survivor. Fridley Patch: You’re from Fridley? Are you originally from here? Kimberia Sherva: I was born in Seoul, Korea. I was adopted and raised in Detroit Lakes and moved to the cities in my early 20’s. Patch: And you’re 25 now? Sherva: People ask that a lot. No, I’m 40. Patch: SlutWalk Minneapolis has been getting a lot of press. How do you feel being thrust into the spotlight? Sherva: …
Kimberia Sherva of Fridley organized the Oct. 1 event.
Laurie Buck
7:04 am on Thursday, December 15, 2011
You need another option--"I have mixed emotions about rain in December and I will tell you why in comments below" That would be my choice. Why? Because as mom-taxi who takes a teen to school for jazz band at 6;30 am, I like not having to scrape snow off windows in the morning. But I'm a Minnesotan through and through...and I like snow. The idea of not having a white Christmas in MN? Scandalous! more ›