Interview with Artika Tyner

Reading has always been a driving force in Dr. Artika Tyner’s life. As a child growing up in the Rondo neighborhood, the author and educator remembers taking the bus to the library with her friend and saving her money to buy books at the Salvation Army.

Salt and Snow

2d cartoon image of a snowy day with gravel and sand instead of salt on a sidewalk with a shovel

Deicing salt is often over applied, with 365,000 tons of road salt applied in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area (TCMA) alone each year. It is vital to our transportation and infrastructure that we have safe roads, however we also know that chloride salt is not a sustainable solution as it wears on our infrastructure every winter

Open Hands Midway

Open Hands Midway has been serving the Hamline Midway and Union Park communities for 15 years. “Freely we give, freely we receive” has been at the core of operations since opening. They offer Meal Programs, Food Shelf, and Produce Distribution free of cost to all who come.

Midway to Mississippi

Midway to the Mississippi flyer

Midway to Mississippi Clean up leaf litter on the curb to protect the Mississippi River from pollution! Sign Up to participate in Midway to Mississippi Hamline Midway Coalition has teamed up with Capitol Region Watershed for the Midway To Mississippi environmental initiative. Midway to the Mississippi is a simple yet effective initiative aimed at preventing […]

Food Justice at Zion Community Commons

The Community Dinner concept began at Eureka Compass in 2017. As it grew, and the potential for beneficial impacts in the community in the concept began to be better understood, more community partners were brought in.

Green To Go

Green To Go! The Hamline Midway neighborhood supports St. Paul’s Green-to-Go ordinance to create a more environmental city. The Green to Go ordinance passed in 2022 by the city of St. Paul is meant to convert a pollution issue into a resource by creating more soil health through composting food waste and much of its packaging. This […]

Taking Notes

But who is the Midway Neighborhood? What are our stories? What are our troubles and our dreams? What makes us want to live our lives here? From renters, to homeowners, students, to parents; we are the Hamline Midway Neighborhood, and our story is not one that begins and ends, but forever changes.

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