Kristal Leebrick

If the words “smaller footprint” and “stronger community” sing to you, mark April 20 on your calendar for the All St. Anthony Park Transition Festival. That’s when Transition Town ASAP (an effort initiated by the District 12 Energy Resilience Group) will showcase an ambitious community venture that organizers hope will start moving the neighborhood toward less dependence on fossil fuel.

When the St. Paul Public Library put out the call for a citywide group read of the young adult novel Everybody Sees the Antsby A.S. King, the staff and students at Avalon School answered.

In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December, Como Park Senior High School counselor Molly McCurdy found herself searching for some way to help students at her school address the tragedy.

Once upon a time there was no such thing as a Christmas tree farm in the land of lakes—until University of Minnesota forestry professor Henry Hansen began planting spruces and pines on a tax-delinquent piece of land he’d purchased in Anoka County in 1952.