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Category: March 2024

  • Teen from Two Rivers elected to West St. Paul City Council

    Jake Spitzack

    Jake SpitzackStaff Writer If you’ve watched or attended a West St. Paul City Council meeting recently you’ve likely noticed the council has a new member that is noticeably younger than the rest. McKinley Cherrier, a junior at Two Rivers High School, has become the first-ever junior councilmember of the West St. Paul City Council. In… Read more

  • A St. Paul Original: the Marvy Barber Pole

    Jake Spitzack

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    Tim SpitzackEditor It used to be that men got their hair cut and women had their locks styled. While those lines have blurred considerably in the past 50 years, many professional barbers are quick to educate people on the difference. They are protective of their trade and take their craft seriously. Barbers, they’ll tell you,… Read more

  • Record-high demand continues at local food shelves: Minnesota FoodShare campaign is underway

    Jake Spitzack

    Jake SpitzackStaff Writer Neighborhood House and Neighbors, Inc. are among the approximately 300 food shelves across the state participating in the 43rd annual Minnesota FoodShare campaign, an initiative of the Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches. It challenges food shelves to see which one can raise the most food and money. The Council of Churches donates… Read more

  • Stryker Apartments welcomes low-income seniors

    Jake Spitzack

    Jake SpitzackStaff Writer One of Karen Reid’s first tasks when she became executive director of the Neighborhood Development Alliance (NeDA) 26 years ago was to work with the City of St. Paul to figure out what to do with the half-acre property at 617 Stryker Ave., home to a vacant gas station. After several failed… Read more

  • Saint City takes over former Creators Space

    Jake Spitzack

    Jake SpitzackStaff Writer The catering business that Guillermo Hernandez began five years ago has grown by leaps and bounds and now operates a full-fledged restaurant, Saint City. Located in the former Creators Space building, 218 7th St. E., it seats 200 and features American, Mexican and Salvadorian entrees for breakfast and lunch, a French-style bakery… Read more

  • Slice Brother’s Pizza opening soon at Treasure Island Center

    Jake Spitzack

    Jake SpitzackStaff Writer Jonesing for a massive slice of ’za that can be folded in true New York-style fashion? Adam Kado and Hosie Thurmond have got you covered. In March, they’re opening a branch of Slice Brothers Pizza at the Treasure Island Center, 400 Wabasha S. N. It will be their largest location yet, featuring… Read more

  • St. Patrick’s Day parade set for March 16

    Jake Spitzack

    Jake SpitzackStaff Writer Luck is sure to shine upon St. Paul this March when its streets are flooded with all things Irish – most notably the swaths of people clad in green cheerfully marching in (or viewing) the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade. Due to the holiday falling on a Sunday this year, the parade… Read more

  • From Fleming Field to infinity and beyond

    Jake Spitzack

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    Tim SpitzackEditor Our country’s earliest days of space exploration required men of unparalleled courage willing to do the unthinkable, and few were more daring than Joseph William Kittinger II, who rode a high-altitude balloon to the record-breaking height of 96,784 feet to test how humans reacted to the harsh conditions found high above the clouds.… Read more