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As Jim Tittle drove over the Raymond Avenue bridge toward the Hampden Park Co-op one day in early May, he looked down at the open railcars sitting below on the Burlington Northern Sante Fe Railway
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.
The days of keeping your voice down at the library are over. At least in downtown St.
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?
Two new libraries have quietly opened in the Como Park and St. Anthony Park neighborhoods since November.
The winter solstice—the shortest day and the longest night of the year—is Thursday, Dec.
Area sledders can put College Park’s Suicide Hill back on the winter to-do list.
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.The students spend five days taking classes on subjects such as wetland ecology, geology, orienteering and animals signs. But four 50-minute sessions that week are devoted to classes that teach the students about the variety of cultures that make up their own school’s environment. Those classes are taught by the 16 eighth-graders chosen to be the student leaders for the trip.“We are more alike than different,” is a theme that has carried through the decades-long tradition of going to Wolf Ridge, said Tim Chase, science teacher and one of Murray’s Wolf Ridge coordinators.Teaching students about the variety of people in their community helps “a kid see that the student sitting next to him or her is different but the same,” Chase said. “They celebrate; they have special foods. Continue Reading
The St. Paul City Council approved a major street project on Raymond Avenue in south St. Anthony at its Nov. 2 meeting.