Category: Neighborhood News

  • Global Recycling Day

    Global Recycling Day

    Letter to the Editor March 18th is Global Recycling Day, a day dedicated to recognizing the role recycling plays in promoting a more circular economy…

  • St. Paul Winter Farmer’s Market

    St. Paul Winter Farmer’s Market

    The tradition has remained open throughout the pandemic, connecting customers with fresh mushrooms and micro-greens, root veggies, humanely raised meat, farm fresh eggs, artisan cheeses, baked…

  • The Intersectional Feminist of Early 20th Century St. Paul

    The Intersectional Feminist of Early 20th Century St. Paul

    by David LambIn many of the histories of the period that mention her name, Nellie Francis, the subject of a new exhaustive biography by William…

  • West End Artist Profile: Chris Bremicker

    West End Artist Profile: Chris Bremicker

    by MIMI ROTHSTEINChris Bremicker is a West End writer who resides at the Montreal Hi-Rise. He has now published his third book, Eagle Claw and…

  • Growing Your Sustainable Lawn

    Growing Your Sustainable Lawn

    GARDEN VIEWSBy Kent PettersonA reader named Paul sent me a question about the grass on his boulevard—or should I say lack of it.  As he…

  • Snakes

    Snakes

    BEING WELLErin Brandel Dykhuizen, MA, MSW, LICSWcolumnist There are snakes inside my walls! I wake up some mornings with the thought, wishing it was merely…

  • Echo

    Echo

    BEA’S BOOKS(5 out of 5 stars)  BEATRICE COSGROVE, reviewerEcho by Pam Muñoz Ryan starts off with a story about a boy named Otto playing hide-and-seek…

  • Way, way up in the sky

    Way, way up in the sky

    Birds in ParticularHALLE O’[email protected] I was driving home from Ely, MN and stopped in the town of Virginia at the food co-op. It resides in…

  • Early March arrivals, late March awakenings

    Early March arrivals, late March awakenings

    Birds in Particular by Halle O’Falvey I am so happy for the month of March to begin, even though predictions are snowy and cold, then mild…