“Mr. Positive” Retires after 40 years at Bridgeview School
“Mr. Positive” Carl Bentson, 61, was honored with a sumptuous Mancini’s dinner on March 18 for his 40 years of
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Local Culture
Fort Road community garden plots available
Plots at our Fort Road Community Garden are now open to neighbors in the West 7th Community. Registration started in
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Range Anxiety and the Green Book
When it comes to electric vehicles, range anxiety is a thing. “Will we make it to our destination?” being the central question driving the anxiety. In late January we leased an electric car from Hyundai. Our Ioniq 5 has a range of 266 miles, which is quite sufficient for traveling anywhere in the Metro region. Our goal, however, was St. Augustine, Florida to visit family. Would we make it the entire way, finding charging stations when needed or would we find ourselves stranded along the road in Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky or one of the other states through which we had to travel?
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Letter to the Editor: Thanks to the Fort Road Federation for making our street safer
I would like to give a shout out to Julia McColley, Executive Director of the West 7th/Fort Road Federation, for
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Carol Carey Retires from Historic St. Paul
After leading Historic St. Paul (HSP) for over two decades, Carol Carey, the organization’s Executive Director, recently retired from her
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GAP creative writers share mini memoirs
This month, GAP Creative Writing students were challenged to write a memoir in under 250 words, having to pack lots of detail and feelings into limited space. Here are five of their stories.
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Schmidt on West 7th hosts St. Paul Spring Art Crawl
What do Rembrandt, Georgia O’Keefe, Banksy and Andy Warhol have in common? They all started as local artists. Meet a
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Piano lessons – finale
Ever since the first piano – outside – the UFM clinic column in December’s “Community Reporter,” letters have been pouring in. Well, three. One congratulatory, one asking about a “rash down there” and one cease and desist note begging for a “column about anything other than another piano.”
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House of Thune takes second at national snow sculpting competition
St. Paul snow sculpting collective House of Thune had a busy February, placing second at the National Snow Sculpting Championship in Lake Geneva, Wis. and third at the Minnesota State Snow Sculpting Competition this year, despite the warm temperatures and lack of snow.
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