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North End Neighborhood News and Events

The North End is primarily a residential neighborhood with easy access to shops and restaurants along Rice Street and other small retail areas. The North End is home to many schools, parks, and recreation centers making it a family-friendly neighborhood. The 18-mile Gateway Trail that connects Saint Paul to Stillwater begins in the North End. Oakland Cemetery, Saint Paul’s oldest formal cemetery features rolling hills and woods, eclectic and historic architecture, and gravesites of famous early Minnesotan business and political leaders.

(Description from livemsp.org)

St. Paul Hmong two-way immersion programs face challenges of enrolling non-Hmong students, developing curriculum

By Alleen Brown, TC Daily Planet

Nou Her is a pre-kindergarten teacher in the first Hmong immersion program in the nation, located at St. Paul’s Jackson Elementary school. She’s also a translator. 

During the summer, on weekends, on weeknights and during prep hours, she translates children’s books, district curriculum, wall hangings and songs. “From big books to small books to rhyming to alliteration,” she said.

It’s what’s required for a program that teaches core curriculum in a language for which there exist virtually no commercial curriculum materials.MORE »

Democracy chugs on at St. Paul school board listening session

By Alleen Brown, TC Daily Planet

On April 26, the St. Paul school board held its second of three listening sessions, open to community members interested in speaking directly to the board.MORE »

Central Corridor homes featured in Minneapolis & St. Paul Home Tour April 28 and 29

By Margo Ashmore, TC Daily Planet

“Our property values are going to go back up. And our transportation expense is going to go down. This is our ticket,” Joanne Nguyen declared during a tour of 749 University Avenue, a  duplex renovated through the Greater Frogtown Community Development Corporation (GFCDC). “With this light rail, our property values are already going up.MORE »

Stone's Throw Urban Farm joins three farms in Minneapolis and St. Paul

By Mary Jane LaVigne, TC Daily Planet

“This is a giant cement square!” Xavier, 8, leans on his shovel, delivers his assessment, and turns back to loosening soil from the old foundation. He’s the youngest of a crew of a dozen or so helping Stone’s Throw Urban Farm prepare a field at 391 W. Maryland in St. Paul. The commercial farming enterprise works land in both Minneapolis and St. Paul.MORE »

Farming in the city

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By Tom Niemisto, Minnesota 2020

You might easily confuse the sound of a farm-tiller with that of a lawn-mower this spring season. That's because more urban farmers in Minneapolis can use their own land to sell self-grown produce.MORE »

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About North End

 

CONTACTS

District 6 Planning Council
Kerry Antrim, Executive Director
171 Front Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55117
651-488-4485

SCHOOLS

Public Schools:

  • Como Park Senior High School (9-12)

Private Schools:

For more information on Saint Paul schools, visit Live MSP's Schools page.

PUBLIC FACILITIES

  • Marydale Park (SE of Dale and Maryland, this park is one of the North End's best kept secrets.)
  • Gateway State Bike Trail (This is a major Minnesota bike/ski Trail that begins in the North End neighborhood at the trailhead on Cayuga and ends in Pine Point Park in Stillwater,18 miles to the northeast.)

BOUNDARIES AND ZIP CODE

North: Larpenteur Avenue
South: Burlington - Northern Railroad 
East: I-35E 
West: Lexington - Dale

Zip codes: 55117, 55103

SUB-NEIGHBORHOODS

The following neighborhoods are part of the Near North planning district (District 6):

  • South Como

Representatives:
MN House: John Lesch, Rena Moran, or Alice Hasuman
MN Senate: Mary Jo McGuire or Sandra L. Pappas
US House: Betty McCollum
City Council: Amy Brendmoen

North End Boundaries

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