From no hoops to drive-up confession: signs of the COVID times

MinnPost toured and tooled around the Twin Cities, looking for signs of life during COVID-19.

By Jim Walsh | MinnPost contributing writer

April 29, 2020

Minnesotans entered the sixth week of the statewide COVID-19 shutdown with messages of thanks, hope, distancing, and determination. MinnPost toured and tooled around, looking for signs of life:

St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church, West St. Paul. — MinnPost photo by Jim Walsh
St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church, West St. Paul.

Boarded up baskets, Marthaler Park, West St. Paul. — MinnPost photo by Jim Walsh
Boarded up baskets, Marthaler Park, West St. Paul.

St. Maron’s Maronite Catholic Church, St. Anthony East, Minneapolis. — MinnPost photo by Jim Walsh
St. Maron’s Maronite Catholic Church, St. Anthony East, Minneapolis.

Whole Foods, East Calhoun, Minneapolis. — MinnPost photo by Jim Walsh
Whole Foods, Minneapolis.

Corona 2020 tears graffiti, King Field, Minneapolis. — MinnPost photo by Jim Walsh
Corona 2020 tears graffiti, Kingfield, Minneapolis.

Near North, Minneapolis. — MinnPost photo by Jim Walsh
Near north, Minneapolis.

Abbott-Northwestern Hospital, Whittier, Minneapolis. — MinnPost photo by Jim Walsh
Abbott-Northwestern Hospital, south Minneapolis.

A sign and a sanitizer bottle: Tremblay’s Sweet Shop, Stillwater. — MinnPost photo by Jim Walsh
A sign and a sanitizer bottle: Tremblay’s Sweet Shop, Stillwater.

Mendota Heights. — MinnPost photo by Jim Walsh
Mendota Heights.

Diamond Lake, Minneapolis. — MinnPost photo by Jim Walsh
South Minneapolis.

The Record Spot, Kingfield, Minneapolis. — MinnPost photo by Jim Walsh
The Record Spot, Kingfield, Minneapolis.

Justice Page Middle School, Tangletown, Minneapolis. — MinnPost photo by Jim Walsh
Justice Page Middle School, Tangletown, Minneapolis.