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Longtime Grand Avenue fabric shop Treadle Yard Goods has closed amid owner's cancer battle
Treadle Yard Goods, a fabric shop with a nearly half-century-long history on Grand Avenue, has closed as its owner undergoes cancer treatment. Michele Hoaglund, who bought the store about a decade ago from its founding owners, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer around Christmas, she wrote on the store's social media page. The shop's final day was June 1. 'My focus must be on my health and getting well,' she wrote in the store's farewell message on its website. 'I have enjoyed getting to know so many of you over the years and loved seeing and hearing about your sewing projects.' Hoaglund could not be reached for comment this week. Hoaglund, a longtime employee who had initiated the store's class program, took over the store in 2015 from Mary Daley, who had founded it in 1976 with her late husband, Paul. The shop was known not just for its wide fabric selection but also for its employees' skill at supporting and advising customers' projects, and for its community outreach efforts. In 2020, the store provided free kits for sewists to make their own Covid-19 face masks. Then, in 2022, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine, Hoaglund organized community sewing sessions to produce more than 200 handmade baby blankets for Ukrainian refugees in Poland. Derrick Thompson guilty of all charges in Minneapolis high-speed crash that killed 5 young women Minneapolis man sentenced for stabbing, hanging St. Paul woman's dog after argument Snelling and St. Clair intersection fully reopens after construction Ex-Metro Transit employee claims religious discrimination in lawsuit St. Paul police name detective, officer, employee of the year
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Minneapolis man sentenced for stabbing, hanging St. Paul woman's dog after argument
A Minneapolis man with a significant recent criminal history was sentenced this week to four years in prison for killing a woman's dog inside her St. Paul apartment after the two argued. The sentence handed down to 25-year-old Emmanuel Joe Ware Jr. in Ramsey County District Court on Monday will run at the same time as a four-year term he received in Hennepin County in March for possession of a firearm and ammunition by a person who is not eligible due to a conviction for a crime of violence. The Ramsey County complaint says the woman told police that she left her West Side apartment on Jan. 9 to stay with her sister after she and Ware got into an argument. When she returned the next day, her bloodied and dead dog — a white Pomeranian named 'Bug' — was hanging by his neck in her closet. Officers saw a shattered mirror, blood 'all over' the walls and the dog hanging. He had a deep cut to his eye. A knife block in the kitchen was missing two knives. A necropsy later revealed Bug had broken bones and stab wounds to his head. The woman told police Ware sent her a series of threatening text messages after she went to her sister's place. She said she is pregnant with Ware's child and fearful of him because he was assaultive with her in the past, the complaint says. Investigators spoke with Ware four days later at Hennepin County Jail, where he was booked Jan. 12 on the gun possession charge. Ware said he 'loves Bug' and would never hurt him, and that he was with his girlfriend, 'Fantasia,' in Minneapolis on the day in question, the complaint says. Investigators pulled video surveillance footage from the apartment building, which showed Ware in the first-floor elevator lobby around 5 p.m. Jan. 9, and in the fourth-floor lobby around 7:45 p.m. Investigators, with apartment surveillance photos in hand, returned to the jail on Jan. 27 to interview Ware again. He said that he had lied to them before and was at the apartment on Jan. 9, but reiterated he did not kill the dog. Ware pleaded guilty to felony mistreating or torturing an animal on March 20 after reaching an agreement with the prosecution. Ex-Metro Transit employee claims religious discrimination in lawsuit Verdict awaits after closing arguments in Derrick Thompson's trial for crash that killed 5 Ex-teacher of Hmong College Prep Academy in St. Paul sentenced for criminal sexual conduct with student 'Felt as though they were going to kill me,' Mahtomedi man beaten and robbed of casino winnings says in court Macalester alum sues over animal testing in psychology labs; college responds Another case was dismissed at sentencing as part of the plea deal: felony mail theft after police say video surveillance at the woman's St. Paul apartment building showed him stealing a package of Christmas gifts from the mail room on Dec. 4. Ware has one pending case. In December, he was charged with misdemeanor domestic assault stemming from a Dec. 11 incident involving the woman at the HealthPartners Clinic on Wabasha Street in St. Paul during an OB/GYN appointment. A jury trial is scheduled for next month. At the time of the dog's killing, Ware was on intensive supervised release after serving three years and three months for a 2021 conviction in Hennepin County for abetting and abetting first-degree robbery. He has two other felony convictions out of Hennepin County: first-degree robbery in 2017 and fourth-degree possession of a controlled substance (cocaine and ecstasy) in 2019.
