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Emerson Tallents started 10th grade at a new school—Hill-Murray School—earlier this year. She plays soccer, helps lead children’s ministry at her church and loves animals.

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Until recently, Emerson had one mini poodle, two geckos, a rabbit and a tank full of fish. But two years ago, she started doing research on another type of animal: psychiatric service dogs (PSDs). She wanted a dog that would help her cope with her social anxiety and depression.

In the ’90s, Minneapolis native Rick Anderson worked out of Philadelphia as a management consultant, traveling multiple times per week and meeting with leaders from Fortune 500 companies across the U.S. Then, in the early 2000s, he left his job to run his family’s liquor business.

When the M Health Fairview Achievement Center director Darcy Hager-Slavin first met Linda J. Hood, she remembers her saying, “We’re only on this Earth a very, very short amount of time, and we need to make sure that we do great things.”

College students are gearing up for autumn around campuses—near and far. While the year might have started with excitement and anticipation, this month can bring on bouts of homesickness as the reality of living away from home and the pressures of college life settle into reality.

When Plymouth resident Bob Lund graduated from college with a degree in English, he had two choices—enroll in either journalism school or law school. 

One morning in August 2019, Minnetonka resident Kym Jolstad got a call from her sister Kelly. “I said, ‘Hey, Kelly, what’s up? I’m at breakfast. Is everything okay?’ and she said, ‘No,’” Jolstad says. “... It was just like my heart sunk.” 

A typical night at Higher Ground Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in White Bear Township starts with a fundamentals class: Students—many of them new to jiu-jitsu—gather around the mat to start with a series of warmups.

Last winter, Andrew Mahoney cut a hole in Lake Minnetonka. He placed a wooden board over the opening in the ice to keep it from refreezing and set up a ring of orange cones around the edges. He took the ladder from his dock and put it into the ice hole to make it easy to climb out of the frigid water.

For homeowners looking to revamp their space, starting the renovation process may seem overwhelming. Simple choices like color and texture may be more difficult than at first glance, not to mention logistics like utilities and building structure. The good news is, with the right plan and people in your corner, the process can be more fun than stressful.

Walking through the front doors of ModernWell is like walking into an oasis. With bright walls, floor-to-ceiling windows, cushy couches and welcoming work desks, the space is designed for creativity. “It feels warm; it feels uplifting and inspired,” says Minnetonka resident Julie Burton, ModernWell’s founder and CEO.

Pamela Mercado Michelli’s daughter, Daniela, 5, loves to read. “I always took my daughter to storytime at the … Maple Grove Public Library,” Michelli says. “She started talking really clearly at a very young age.” But as Michelli searched for new stories for Daniela, she realized how few children’s books are originally written in Spanish. Instead, “It’s like a known English title that then they translated, and I feel like it’s not necessarily the same thing,” Michelli says of many Spanish-language children’s titles.