Brooklyn Center will soon be home to a new barbering school.
Melt City Barbering School of Craftsmanship got the go-ahead for operation from the Brooklyn Center City Council on Monday.
The school will open in the former Handz-On Barber and Beauty shop at 6800 Humboldt Ave. N. in the Humboldt Square shopping center. That's the same strip mall that's home to Value Foods and House of Hui.
Rory Purnell, a Brooklyn Center resident, will head the school.
"To put a business here is definitely a perfect dream," Purnell said.
Purnell has spent 20…
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