Who can use south Minneapolis' Phelps Rec Center? Lease renewal prompts friction between Minneapolis Park Board and Boys and Girls Club startribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from startribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Minneapolis Park Board is poised to approve a third year of selling "carbon offset credits" generated by capitalizing on trees planted throughout the city's parkland to companies that want to claim they're reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The scheme has earned the city more than $100,000, but it hasn't yet caused a single additional tree to be planted.
City, Park Board and Minnehaha Watershed District launching new partnership to repair water problems in south Minneapolis, clean up Lake Hiawatha startribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from startribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Minnehaha Creek has long been treated like a glorified drainage ditch as it flows downstream from Lake Minnetonka through south Minneapolis, dumping street runoff into the Mississippi River. A new partnership seeks to redefine the creek's relationship with the people who live along its banks and play in the lakes fed by its polluted water. Modeled after the 1991 Clean Water Partnership that .
South Minneapolis neighbors rally to save beloved playground as school district shrinks startribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from startribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.