Around Town

In today’s economic conditions, Plymouth resident Robert Wachholz, president and owner of True Gravity Ventures, is working on an innovative design in Brooklyn Park that would promote “fiscal sustainability” for future homeowners.

Crowds anticipate the annual Music in Plymouth festivities.

In 1972, Music in Plymouth began as a small gathering on a vacant lot in the
Minneapolis Industrial Park. Fast forward 42 years, and the get-together has
become a must-attend summer extravaganza anticipated by thousands of Plymouth

Sara Commers' Tahitian pearl pendant ($8,100) is set with 1.43 carats of diamonds and a 71.2 mm Tahitian pearl in 14 karat gold that is black rhodium-plated, held on a sterling silver multi-strand chain, also black rhodium-plated ($150 extra).  But that's not all: Commers also designed her rings.

After taking a class at Minnetonka Center for the Arts in 1999, Sara Commers took a leap and launched into a career in the fine jewelry industry.

For more than eight years, on the Thursday before Memorial Day, local gardening guru Heidi Heiland hosts May Planter Parties, a day filled with two-hour planting sessions, with sign-ups beginning at 8 a.m. and the last class concluding at 8 p.m.

Eighteen-year-old Amanda Bluford is just about to graduate from Robbinsdale-Armstrong High School, and the girl’s got big plans.

Back in summer 2004, an upstart publishing company identified the Minneapolis suburb of Plymouth as the next community to get its very own magazine.

When Ruth and Jim Buezis moved to Minnesota from California in 1991, the engineer by training with a degree from California Polytechnic State University discovered she needed a toy box for her young daughters (now ages 17 through 23).

Gene Heezen carves from his home.

Retired longtime Plymouth resident Gene Heezen, 77, has been woodcarving for some 40 years. During this period, he has recreated more than 12 historic Plymouth buildings, including the Farmer’s Home Inn, Gilfillan Log Cabin and the Old Town Hall.

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