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The annual Neighborhood Super Sale brings more than 100 coordinated yard sales across East Isles, Lowry Hill, the Wedge and neighboring areas.
Paddling season is underway on Lake of the Isles, the sheltered lake that links by channel to Bde Maka Ska and Cedar Lake to form the heart of the Minneapolis Chain of Lakes.
Lowry Hill, Kenwood and Cedar-Isles-Dean associations are partnering with the Minnesota DNR on a free Fishing in the Parks event.
The Kenilworth and North Cedar Lake trails reopened in March 2026 after nearly seven years of closure for light-rail construction, restoring the bike link between the Chain of Lakes, downtown Minneapolis and the western suburbs.
The Cedar Lake Regional Trail is whole again after nearly seven years, with the last closed stretches of the Cedar Lake and Kenilworth trails reopening over the winter of 2026 once Southwest Light Rail construction cleared the corridor.
The lowest-commitment way to get involved on Lowry Hill is a Saturday morning: the neighborhood association's monthly Service Saturdays meet at Sebastian Joe's, 1007 W. Franklin Ave., on the third Saturday from 10 to 11:30 a.m. for a walking litter and storm-drain cleanup, with no sign-up required.
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board's plan for Lake of the Isles calls for replacing eroding turf banks with native sedges and grasses, work meant to hold soil, filter runoff and return wildlife to the shoreline.
Ward 7's spring community-conversations series ran a renters'-rights forum at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church on March 28 and helped convene a regional school-safety panel March 5 featuring researchers from Hamline University's Violence Prevention Project.
Organizers are recruiting paid staff and volunteers ahead of the season.
A paddler can launch on Lake of the Isles and reach Cedar Lake and Bde Maka Ska through connecting channels without ever loading the boat back onto a car.
Vehicle-related thefts dominated recent police reports in Lowry Hill and East Isles, with motor-vehicle thefts and thefts from vehicles outnumbering every other category.
Pit fires, hot cocoa and skating brought six neighborhoods together on the ice.
A seasonal canoe or kayak rack on Lake of the Isles costs Minneapolis residents $325, and demand routinely outruns the roughly 600 spots the Park Board awards each year by lottery.
Council Member Elizabeth Shaffer, sworn in to the Ward 7 seat on Jan. 5, 2026, now runs the office that handles constituent casework for Lowry Hill, the Wedge, East Isles, Cedar-Isles-Dean, Bryn Mawr, Kenwood and part of downtown.
Elizabeth Shaffer reached the Ward 7 City Council seat after serving as a Minneapolis park commissioner, a move between two separately elected governments that share the same neighborhoods.
Elizabeth Shaffer, a former Park Board commissioner, was sworn in as Ward 7 council member on Jan. 5 after unseating one-term incumbent Katie Cashman in the city's most expensive council race.
The shoreline of Lake of the Isles records more than a century of decisions, from the late-1800s dredging that turned a marsh into open water to recent shoreline restoration.
Cedar-Isles-Dean, a neighborhood of about 3,000 residents ringed by three lakes, is represented by the volunteer-led CIDNA, which has focused heavily on the Southwest Light Rail project.
The neighborhood north of the lake co-hosts two cold-weather staples — the Lake of the Isles Winter Party and the New Year's Eve Skate.
Two separate levies — the City of Minneapolis budget and the Park Board's 6.11% increase — land on the same 2026 Hennepin County property-tax statement.
Mayor Jacob Frey asked for a 7.8% levy increase in August; the City Council adopted 8% in December.
