Category: Local Culture

  • Highland District Council June 2024

    Highland District Council June 2024

    Highland Park Garage Sale Weekend Highland Park’s weekend of garage sales is Friday, June 21 and Saturday, June 22 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.…

  • HDC, W7/FRF host annual meetings, welcome new Board members

    HDC, W7/FRF host annual meetings, welcome new Board members

    The West 7th / Fort Road Federation (W7/FRF) and the Highland District Council (HDC) held their annual meetings and Board of Directors elections last month,…

  • Celebrate all things West 7th at West Fest this summer

    Celebrate all things West 7th at West Fest this summer

    There’s a party coming to West 7th this summer, and organizers want everyone in the neighborhood to know they are invited. The event, West Fest…

  • Keeping Fear in Its Place

    Keeping Fear in Its Place

    Our response was instinctive, as if our bodies made decisions without consulting our minds. The huge bear on the other side of the glass lunged…

  • Mr. Positive is ill

    Mr. Positive is ill

    I’ve driven by Carl Bentson‘s St. Clair State Fair House every day for 30 years. Like so many others, I have to. To right-start my…

  • A community lesson for the whole world

    A community lesson for the whole world

    Lucky I am to have made a documentary portrait of Carl Bentson. Mr. Positive is a half hour film about a good neighbor who never…

  • St. Paul Farmers’ Market kicks off 170th year

    St. Paul Farmers’ Market kicks off 170th year

    The St. Paul Farmers’ Market opened their season April 27-28 in downtown St. Paul for its 170th year of providing locally produced food in St.…

  • What Really Matters?

    What Really Matters?

    I’m stepping away from my sixteen-year involvement with the Community Reporter in the midst of my grief over the death of Miriam, my partner in…

  • Thank you Jerry

    Thank you Jerry

    Jerry Rothstein has meant so much to the Community Reporter (some might say WAS the Community Reporter) and our community for so long – he…