It may feel like this November’s election is years away with the current heat wave, but the primary elections on August 11th will decide who appears on those ballots, including our Wisconsin State Assembly District 76. To better learn about the candidates running for that office, several neighborhood groups have organized forums to help voters learn about who is running and how they’d lead if elected.

Tomorrow, July 14th, Tenney-Lapham is hosting a candidate forum from 7-9 PM at Christ Presbyterian Church, 944 E Gorham Street. On Tuesday July 28th, NSNA has worked with the Northside Planning Council to put together another candidate forum at Door Creek Church, 1181 N Sherman, from 6-8 PM.

Busy on Tuesdays? City Cast Madison attended the first forum that SASY held at Garver Feed Mill last month, and posted a transcript and recording of the event.

Matt here with a little different topic than usual. While helping out with Eken Park Fest, I noticed there were some questions our dedicated festival committee volunteers would ask that would best be answered by other festivals. In order to create an environment to help ask and answer questions about organizing events, the NSNA submitted for and received a grant for a Festival Planning Educational Series grant. The hope is to meet on 5 topics this coming fall and early winter featuring speakers that professionally do day in day out what we volunteer to do annually.

Interested in a topic, or know someone that is? Register your interest here to help me plan the events. Thanks!

July NSNA Meeting

Wed July 1, 6:30 PM at Hawthorne Public Library, or you can call-in virtually.

Note the day change to Wednesday.

Google Meet call-in link

Meeting agenda

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Future Meeting Dates Update

When Bashford Church was closed for renovations, the NSNA meeting continued to be held on the first Thursday of the month at Hawthorne Library. The library has a new reoccurring event scheduled that same night, and there was just enough of a conflict often enough to warrant moving our meeting cadence off of Thursday to Wednesday. This new routine will start with our July meeting on Wednesday, July 1st.

Looking ahead to August, however, the community room was already reserved the first Wednesday that month, so the August NSNA meeting will be Monday, August 3rd instead.

We will continue to post the meeting time, location, and agenda on the home page blog and update the Google Calendar meeting. If you miss our meeting and come to Hawthorne on the wrong day, you’re still at a library and that’s pretty cool too.

Thu June 6, 6:45 PM at Hawthorne Public Library, or you can call-in virtually. Note the time change!

Future meetings will likely happen on a new recurring monthly schedule, TBD.

Google Meet call-in link

Meeting agenda

Thu May 7th, 7:00 PM at Hawthorne Public Library, or you can call-in virtually. Different time than normal!

The Giving Committee will be presenting their funding proposal, so we need attendance from members for voting on the proposed spending! Hope to see you there!

Google Meet call-in link

Meeting agenda

The North Street Neighborhood Association is pleased to announce that the our annual Giving Committee grant process has begun! Applications will be accepted through Sun April 26th.

Apply here: 2026 NSNA Grant Application

To learn more about our annual giving process, or if you would like to be more involved, you can visit our Giving Committee page here. You can see the full details about the process in our policies [PDF].

Curious about our 2025 NSNA Grant Awardees? Check out this post from Jun 2025

Our Neighborhood Social is typically the 3rd Tue of each month, but this month lands on St. Patrick’s Day. Since Dexter’s will be packed to the gills that day, we’re bumping the social back a week to Tue 3/24. See you then!

Tonight Thu 3/5 6:30-7:30 PM is our monthly NSNA meeting.

Join in-person at the Hawthorne Library meeting room or virtually via Google Meet:https://meet.google.com/jqw-jnjb-eoa

Meeting agenda