Greater Eastside Neighborhood News and Events

The Greater East Side neighborhoods provide suburban comforts within minutes of downtown Saint Paul, the businesses along Phalen Corridor, 3-M headquarters, and employment and retail opportunities in the neighboring city of Maplewood. Most homes were built after World War II, in rambler and Cape Cod styles—some are located on curving streets and others face the Hillcrest Country Club’s golf course. Many families live in the neighborhood and are close to several different schools and recreational facilities.

White Bear Avenue is the “Main Street” of the neighborhood –with churches, schools, small shops, shopping centers, homes, restaurants and bars, nursing homes, libraries, medical offices, community centers and other services.

(Description from livemsp.org)

For detailed demographic information, see the neighborhood profile from Minnesota Compass.

Half Native, half Asian, all service to the people: A profile of Daniel Yang

By Allison Herrera, The Uptake

Daniel Yang is part of a new cohort of young leaders in the Native American community in South Minneapolis, a half-Native, half-Asian grassroots activist with a passion for public service and a special compassion for refugees. The experience of being lost, exiled and afraid is one his family knows well: Yang’s father was a Hmong refugee who, along with his Ojibwe mother, instilled a commitment to social justice and community service in his son.

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Finding great Hmong food and restaurants in St. Paul

By Ge Gao, TC Daily Planet

(Photos by Ge Gao)

As an Asian, I am always enthusiastic about Asian food. Living in Minneapolis for two years, I saw many Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Indian, Vietnamese, and Thai restaurants around the metro area, but I had not seen or even heard of any Hmong restaurant. I know there is a large Hmong population in Twin Cities. So, I wondered, what do Hmong people eat and where do they eat?

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Election Circle probes underlying assumptions about government

By Bruce Johansen, TC Daily Planet

Marita Bujold at election circle conversation. (Photos by Bruce Johansen)

Last month the Twin Cities Daily Planet embarked on a new experiment.

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St. Paul Parent Information Fair has tiger, but no drums

By Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet

Photos by Sheila Regan.

The St. Paul Public Schools Parent Information Fair drew hundreds of parents and kids to the River Centre on Saturday to find out about all the different choices for public, private, and charter schools available to St. Paul children.

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ST. PAUL NOTES | Register for school now

By Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet

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