The Community Reporter has been serving St. Paul for 55 years this July.

For the first time in those 55 years, we’re venturing beyond St. Paul’s West End, the area largely boxed in when I-35 cut through St. Paul about the same time our paper was first being published.

Through a partnership with Grand Old Day, we’re providing a copy of the Community Reporter to every house in Summit Hill along with our West End neighborhoods.

To our new readers – welcome. We hope you like what you see and will continue to support our free, monthly publication about news and views in our shared back yard. We hope to keep delivering in the neighborhood, funding dependent.

For our loyal readers – thank you for your decades of support and for allowing us to innovate, while keeping what is core to our organization: speaking truth to power and keeping our neighbors informed of the people, places and events shaping our community.

If you support that idea – that free, local news is important to keep and maintain in our city and beyond, please consider making a tax deductible donation to support our ongoing efforts.

communityreporter.org/donate

Starting this month, we are asking people to donate $55 for our 55th year.

Your donation goes to supporting telling more stories of St. Paul – from its origin, on through our formation in the 70s to today.

Thank you and happy Grand Old Day to those who celebrate.

~ Damian Goebel, Editor