Kristal Leebrick

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Kristal Leebrick (kristal@tcdailyplanet.net) is a freelance reporter in the Twin Cities.

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Pop in to University Avenue Pop-Up Shop

By Kristal Leebrick, Park Bugle

The St. Anthony Park Community Council is looking for artists, craftspeople, entrepreneurs and other creative types to pop in to 2401 University Ave. this summer for a week or maybe two.MORE »

Late night at the library: Late-night music and drinks at James J. Hill Reference Library

By Kristal Leebrick, Park Bugle

The days of keeping your voice down at the library are over. At least in downtown St. Paul, where the James J. Hill Reference Library has become one of St. Paul’s newest late- night music-and-drinks venues.MORE »

Three's company: Two Raymond-University area nonprofits and Avalon School connect, create and collaborate

By Kristal Leebrick, Park Bugle

Close your eyes and take a mental walk down University Avenue from Highway 280 east to Snelling. How many examples of public art can you name?MORE »

Building community, one little library at a time

By Kristal Leebrick, Park Bugle

Two new libraries have quietly opened in the Como Park and St. Anthony Park neighborhoods since November. They are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and you don’t need a library card to check out a book.MORE »

Inspiration, elbow grease and a few trips to Ax-Man

By Kristal Leebrick, Park Bugle

Thirteen 12-inch clear plastic salad bowls: $104
Yards of recycled 2-inch foam insulation: $200
Seven 30-by-40-inch sheets of plastic with a mirror finish: $28
Hearing the words “It’s warm in here” when people head into your church basement: Priceless

Pastor Dave Greenlund describes MORE »

Here comes the sun: Yule celebrants see return of the light as time for reflection, healing

By Kristal Leebrick, Park Bugle

The winter solstice—the shortest day and the longest night of the year—is Thursday, Dec. 22, and if all goes to plan, Teisha Magee will stay up through the night with her husband and four children, exchanging gifts, eating favorite foods and waiting for the sunrise.
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College Park is open for winter, stormwater project is put on hold

By Kristal Leebrick, Park Bugle

Area sledders can put College Park’s Suicide Hill back on the winter to-do list. The discovery of an unexpected elevation of groundwater has put a stormwater infiltration-and-treatment project on hold, according to Bruce Elder, sewer utility manager at St. Paul Public Works.MORE »

'We are more alike than different': Murray’s student-led culture classes are a tradition at annual Wolf Ridge environmental camp

By Kristal Leebrick, Park Bugle

When Murray Junior High School sends 72 seventh- and eighth-graders up to Wolf Ridge environmental learning center in Finland each November, those students learn about more than northern Minnesota’s ecosystem and natural history. They learn about each other.MORE »

District 12 Community Council to form a group that will look at parking solutions in the area

By Kristal Leebrick, Park Bugle

The St. Paul City Council approved a major street project on Raymond Avenue in south St. Anthony at its Nov. 2 meeting.MORE »

Music in the Park and Schubert Club: Last year's merger has brought good things to both institutions

By Kristal Leebrick, Park Bugle

One year after Music in the Park merged with the Schubert Club, Julie Himmelstrup, founder and artistic director of Music in the Park, reports that the union of the two longstanding St. Paul institutions has gone well.MORE »