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Have any extra books, plants, cuttings or seeds you would like to share with neighbors?  (And get a few for yourself?) Then come to the neighborhood Plant & Book Swap in the Mentelle Park median nearest Cramer Avenue next Saturday, April 27, beginning at 2 p.m.

While you’re swapping and socializing, there will be a wine tasting by a local wine merchant. If you want to participate, there is a suggested donation of $5 per person.

If you live in Mentelle neighborhood — between Walton Avenue and Mentelle Park, East Main Street/Richmond Road and Winchester Road — and are not a member of the Mentelle Neighborhood Association, please join to help support more activities such as this. Click here for more information. 

Did you know that the Mentelle Park median is an official city park? That’s why the city arborists do such a good job of taking care of our trees, and the city landscaping crews keep it mowed in warm weather. But it’s up to us to keep it looking its best. That’s important, because the median is the site of several neighborhood gatherings each year, including the Easter Egg Hunt we had on March 30 and the fall potluck we will have in September.

Neighborhood volunteers will cleaning up the median on Saturday, April 20, beginning at 9 a.m. Please come out and join them if you’re free that morning. If questions, contact Jill DeBolt, co-chair of the median committee.

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Thanks to everyone who came out for the annual Mentelle Neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt this morning.  Our neighborhood children found all 912 donated eggs within 10 minutes!

Special thanks to: Kim Naujokas, who organized the event and donated the coffee and Spalding’s donuts; Dean Holt, who starred as the Easter Bunny; and to all of you who donated candy-filled plastic eggs and cleaned up and prepared the Mentelle Park median for today’s event.

You can support this and other great neighborhood events by joining the Mentelle Neighborhood Association. Click here to join.

Mentelle neighborhood residents are invited to come out to the Mentelle Park median Saturday at 10 a.m. to help get it cleaned up for next Saturday’s Easter Egg Hunt. It shouldn’t take long, and your help would be appreciated!

Please join us for our annual Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, March 30, at 10 a.m. on the Mentelle Park medians near Cramer Avenue. The egg hunts — one for little kids up to age 4 and one for bigger kids between ages 5 – 10 — begin at 10 a.m. Bigger kids will hunt on the median closest to Cramer and the little ones will hunt on the second median.

No small children in your household? No problem! We hope that all Mentelle Neighborhood residents will come out to socialize with your neighbors and celebrate the beginning of spring. Complimentary coffee will be available from Kenwick Table and we will have delicious Spalding’s Bakery donuts.

Donations of eggs are gladly accepted! If you would like to contribute to the event, please bring plastic eggs (preferably filled with a piece of wrapped candy) in a bag to the porch of 29 Mentelle Park no later than Friday, March 29. We would love to have at least 600 eggs to make this a truly fun and special event for the children of the neighborhood. And while we appreciate the generosity of all of our neighbors, we can’t use loose candy at this time.

We hope to see all Mentelle Neighborhood residents there!

Join us for a spring book and plant swap!  Bring your pre-loved (or un-loved) books and your extra bulbs, seeds, cuttings, roots, starters and seedlings to the north median of Mentelle Park on Saturday, April 27th at 2 pm to trade out what you have too much of and give your gardens and bookshelves a springtime refurb. We’ll also have a wine tasting!

Lexington’s Board of Adjustment voted 4-3 today to deny an application to convert a single-family home at 714 Hambrick Ave. into an un-hosted short-term rental property under Lexington’s new STR law.

The city’s Division of Planning staff had recommended approval. The Mentelle Neighborhood Association’s board of directors opposed the application. Several neighbors spoke against the application, outlining concerns they had, including that the city has already permitted too many un-hosted STRs already in and near the neighborhood.

The applicants have the right to appeal the decision to Circuit Court.*

Click here for more information about short-term rental issues.

*Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said District Court.