If you saw a flashing notice along Interstate 94 in St. Paul recently about lane closures this weekend, disregard it.

Road and bridge work in the eastbound lanes has been postponed due to an extreme heat warning this weekend, according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation, though an unrelated road resurfacing project will temporarily close Minnesota 36 westbound between Interstates 35W and 35E.

The closure along westbound MN 36 in Roseville and Little Canada is scheduled to begin at 9 p.m. Friday and run through early Monday morning. The loop ramp from northbound Cleveland Avenue to westbound MN 36 is also closing at that time. Drivers are asked to continue north on Cleveland Avenue to County Road C to loop back south on 35W.

Work on MN 36 began a few weeks ago, with the goal of resurfacing the highway from 35W in Roseville to Edgerton St. in Little Canada, while making additional improvements. A new auxiliary lane will be added from southbound 35W to eastbound MN 36 with the goal of making merges safer. The ramp from northbound Cleveland Avenue to eastbound MN 36 will be reconstructed, and the merger lane onto eastbound MN 36 will be extended.

Drainage improvements and guardrail replacement are also planned as part of the $17 million project. Work began in mid-June and is scheduled to continue into late September.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Willi Castro joined the Twins last year on a minor league deal, a non-roster invite who was just fighting to make the team out of spring training.

He did, thanks to a couple of injuries, and he quickly established himself as one of the most pivotal players on the roster with his versatility allowing manager Rocco Baldelli almost endless options.

The Twins have been singing his praises for a season and a half now, but on Thursday, his contributions were recognized across the league when the super utilityman was named to the American League All-Star team as a replacement for Astros second baseman Jose Altuve. The game will take place on July 16 in Arlington, Texas.

“If you think about it, he’s the real MVP of this team. He plays everywhere. If somebody gets hurt, he replaces them with no problem,” shortstop Carlos Correa, also an All-Star this year, said last month. “If you ask him to play second, he plays great defense at second base. If you ask him to play shortstop, left, center, it doesn’t matter. He plays everywhere. When you have a guy like that, he makes you so much better as a team. I think we should appreciate him way more than we do already. He’s a real great player.”

Castro stepped in at third when Royce Lewis got hurt in the first game of the season. He filled in at short when Correa got injured, in center when Byron Buxton landed on the injured list and lately, he’s been seeing much of his time at second base since Edouard Julien was optioned to Triple-A.

The switch hitter has also played his fair share of left field this season, becoming one of just two players in major league history to play 20 games at five different defensive positions in a season.

“Everything that we do is affected and the number of options that we have are almost compounded based on the presence of Willi Castro,” manager Rocco Baldelli said last month. “ … He allows us to almost make whatever decisions we want to make. Daily decisions, roster decisions, every kind of decision.”

Castro currently has a 2.7 bWAR (Wins Above Replacement per Baseball Reference), which is second on the team behind just Correa. He’s hitting .268 with a 121 OPS+, a mark that represents 21 percent better than the league average hitter.

Days earlier, manager Rocco Baldelli had expressed his disappointment that only one Twin had been named to the All-Star team.

Now, Castro, who has appeared in every single Twins game this season, will have his chance to be honored on the national stage.

“I don’t know how much more clear it can be that he’s having an all-star season,” Baldelli said in June. “He’s done a fantastic job.”

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St. Paul’s Six Points Theater has a world premiere and a solo show from a recent Tony Award-winner in its newly announced 30th season.

Season tickets for the company’s three main shows are priced from $105 to $72, or $39 for full-time students. For details, see sixpointstheater.org. Performances take place at St. Paul’s Highland Park Community Center.

Founded by Barbara Brooks in 1994 under the name Minnesota Jewish Theater Company, the troupe has produced 115 plays and musicals, 5 commissions and 14 world premieres, all while operating free from debt. The company adopted the new name Six Points Theater in 2021. At the time, Brooks said “our mission has not changed, the work we do has not changed. Our work is very firmly Jewish.”

The season includes:

“Just for Us” (Oct. 26-Nov. 10): Comedian Alex Edelman debuted “Just for Us” in 2018 and it was nominated for the best show award at the Edinburgh Fringe. He revived it in 2023 and it went on to win a special Tony Award for exemplary debut. The show tells the comic tale of how he once ended up at a white supremacist meeting after being trolled by Nazis on social media.

“The Messenger” (March 8-23): This world premiere by Jenny O’Connell Davis explores bigotry and racism in an American town through the lens of four women living in upper middle-class predominantly white California.

“An Act of God” (May 3-18): David Javerbaum wrote this parody of the Ten Commandments with ample use of popular culture and current news. Sally Wingert stars as God.

Additional programming from Six Points Theater includes:

“Political Writing by Jewish Playwrights”: featuring actors reading scenes from plays by Arthur Miller and others; 7:30 p.m. Aug. 19.

“The Theatrics of Government”: with Hamline University Professor David Schultz and others; 7:30 p.m. Aug. 22.

“Survivors” (Jan. 23-24, 26, with additional dates to be announced): The true stories of 10 Holocaust survivors are woven together for this show, which illustrates the risk of normalizing hate and explores constructive actions to create a safer, more inclusive community.

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