Feature Story

A photo collage of the Kenwood Neighborhood Organization’s volunteer-run finale to its summer programs.

Celebrating the love of animals in our lives. If you want to help us spread the joy, submit your favorite pet photo for consideration by email to courtney@hillandlakepress.org.

The Park Board rebuilt the lakeside pavilion for $6.5 million, then renewed a 2017 concession decision without reopening it to bidders. The concept that opened was never competitively evaluated, and two years have cost the park system $291,777.

Amelia Bush is a managing editor of The Emory Wheel at Emory University in Atlanta and is interning at the Hill & Lake Press. She grew up in Kenwood.

Sally Skunk’s first day at Emerald Elementary takes an unexpected turn when a magical treasure hunt leads her into a dangerous forest.

For three decades, Steve Vasseur kept the mud pit at Hidden Beach ready and made a generation feel welcome. As the Mud Man enters hospice, neighbors reflect on a legacy of playfulness and community.

The Park Board is ending a three-decade-old off-leash dog park on land sacred to the Dakota. Dogs are still welcome on a leash, and the two commissioners who represent Hill & Lake readers split over how it was done.

Neighbors thought the debate was settled. Then a new Lyndale Avenue plan appeared, reopening questions about safety, access, trees, and the future of one of Minneapolis’s most beloved commercial corridors.

As the Mall redesign moves closer to implementation, some residents question whether a conceptual planning process has been treated as approval for major roadway and park changes.