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West Side Neighborhood News and Events

The West Side neighborhood is rich with diversity.  The topography ranges from the River Flats that are home to many businesses to the Bluffs which provide breathtaking views of downtown Saint Paul and are home to some of Saint Paul’s finest historic houses. Within the West Side neighborhood, community members come from a rich diversity of income, age, cultural, and geographic backgrounds, this diversity is celebrated through a host of public art pieces disbursed throughout the neighborhood. The West Side is home to many parks and scenic overlooks as well as several neighborhood commercial areas—District del Sol, Stryker/George, Smith Avenue—all of which make the neighborhood vibrant and convenient. The West Side is just minutes to downtown Saint Paul and surrounding suburbs.

(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 »

Union reaches tentative agreement with The Saint Paul Hotel

By Michael Moore, St. Paul Union Advocate

After six months of unusually bitter contract negotiations, union workers at The Saint Paul Hotel will vote May 17 on a tentative agreement with the company on a new three-year contract. Leaders of UNITE HERE Local 17, the union that represents about 170 workers at the downtown hotel, are recommending members vote to accept the tentative agreement.MORE »

THEATER REVIEW | "The Addams Family" musical: La cage de la mort

By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet

In The Addams Family musical, the famously morbid tribe must welcome into their Gothic mansion a family who are distressingly lively and bright. But there's a larger problem that they're not allowed, except for one sly aside about word-of-mouth, to realize: they're in a Broadway musical, a genre as antithetical to unhappy endings as country music is to flag-burning. A successful Addams Family musical would steer into that skid, would deploy the contrarian Addamses to tear down the walls of a genre that's desperately in need of renovation. Instead, the characters inhabit this by-the-numbers show like the brand they are, answering to their names but not their natures.MORE »

THEATER REVIEW | At Park Square Theatre, "Doubt" is a riveting drama

By Bev Wolfe, TC Daily Planet

A riveting production of Doubt: A Parable is now playing at Park Square Theatre. In 2005, playwright Patrick Shanley’s play won both the Pulitzer Prize Award for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. Director Craig Johnson delivers a tight, well-paced and tense production of this multi-layered play.MORE »

Saint Paul celebrates Cinco de Mayo

By Nicole Crosbie, TC Daily Planet

The Saint Paul Festival & Heritage Foundation, an organization that produces cultural and educational events throughout the year like the Saint Paul Winter Carnival, hosted a Cinco de Mayo celebration on St. Paul's West Side on Saturday.MORE »

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Events in West Side

Date Address
Thu, 2012-06-07 (All day) - Sat, 2012-06-23 (All day) The Boys in the Band
The Lowry Lab Theatre
350 St. Peter Street
Saint Paul, MN 55102
Thu, 2012-06-07 (All day) - Sat, 2012-06-23 (All day) The Boys in the Band
The Lowry Lab Theatre
350 St. Peter Street
Saint Paul, MN 55102
Thu, 2012-06-07 (All day) - Sat, 2012-06-23 (All day) The Boys in the Band
The Lowry Lab Theatre
350 St. Peter Street
Saint Paul, MN 55102
Thu, 2012-06-07 19:30 - Sat, 2012-06-23 19:30 The Boys in the Band
Lowry Lab Theatre
350 St. Peter Street
Saint Paul, MN 55102

About West Side

 

CONTACTS

Riverview Economic Development Association 
Christopher Romano, Executive Director
Phone: 651-222-6347

Neighborhood Development Alliance
Karen Reid, Executive Director
Phone: 651-292-0131

West Side Citizens Organization
Carlos Garcia Velasco, Lead Organizer
Phone: 651-293-1708

Neighborhood House
Armando Camacho, President 
Phone: 651.789.2575

 

SCHOOLS

Public Schools:

Private Schools:

Specialty Schools:

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

PUBLIC FACILITIES

 

BOUNDARIES AND ZIP CODE

The West Side is located just south of downtown Saint Paul and was named for its location on the West bank of the Mississippi River.

North: Mississippi River
South: Annapolis Street
East: Mississippi River
West: Mississippi River 

Zip code: 55107

SUB-NEIGHBORHOODS

The following neighborhoods are part of the West Side planning district (District 3):

  • West Side flats
  • District del Sol
  • Cherokee Heights/Riverview
  • The Bluffs

Wilder Research Center Neighborhood Profiles-Includes trend information on neighborhood demographics, economics, and housing, taken from the most recent census data.

Representatives:
MN House: Carlos Mariani
MN Senate: Sandra L. Pappas
US House: Betty McCollum
City Council: Dave Thune

West Side Boundaries

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