Week in Words: From Hallucinogenic Mushrooms to Improvements at a Kingfield Park.

Spring is finally here, as is our weekly roundup of some of the stories covered by Southwest Minneapolis Patch.

To start on a light note, Patch put took dozens of pictures at the last weekend. Check to see if you're there!

Contributor Amy Finch , a Southwest resident and founder of The Utne Reader in our Southwest Citizen piece.

We also covered public safety, with pieces on a man charged with to his girlfriend and another man charged for possession of mushrooms. Our weekly touched on a number of burglaries where thieves cut screen windows open. We also had briefs on the and arrests in the recent Uptown beatings and robberies.

Contributor Tom Carothers rounded up the at Washburn and Southwest High Schools. We also put together a gallery of photos on the Southwest vs. Washburn baseball game. We also sent videographer Todd Wardrope to the It truly is the sport of kings.

In the final full week of the legislative session, we featured a lot of our local lawmakers: House Minority Leader Paul Thissen said Republican cuts would hurt the state and that they were ;  Sen. Linda Berglin ; and Sen. Scott Dibble defended Gov. Mark with Republicans; the legislature passed ; and a .

Superstar contributor Sheila Regan covered another meeting of the 6th Park District Dog Park Citizen Advisory Committee. There's lots to dig into there as they make a list of new locations to consider. Regan also reported what $32,500 in on Nicollet Avenue will look like (the second phase is ambitious!).

On the food front, contributor Marsha Trainer profiled and previewed both the and Farmers Markets.

Leading up to this weekend's House decision to put a , Amy Finch profiled OutFront Minnesota and Southwest Citizen Monica Meyer.

Finally, the great storms descended on us. Readers sent in a great gallery of photos of , and we backed it with some.