For the past several weeks, I have not been seeing as many birds at my feeders as I usually do. When I refilled my feeders the other day, I noticed the platform feeder looked like it had hardly been ...

A child sipping juice. Baltimore police in combat gear, 2015. Patience Zalanga was a child when she discovered her calling. While her peers at St. Anthony Park Elementary School fervently followed the ...

Do you travel along Cleveland Ave­nue and wonder about the long brick building about a block south of Larpenteur Avenue? It is the University of Minnesota’s St. Paul Gymnasium, which opened in 1915 ...

The 2024 fall sports season began in August with cooperative high school teams dotting the landscape across Minnesota. The Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) allows and encourages the ...

The Park Bugle is a monthly nonprofit community newspaper serving St. Anthony Park, Lauderdale, Falcon Heights and Como Park. The Bugle reports and analyzes community news and promotes the exchange of ...

Parkview Ice Cream Shop, 898 Raymond Ave., planned to greet its first customers in mid–August. At the Bugle’s latest press deadline, owner Andy McNattin was putting finishing touches on the shop.

William Middlebrook built the first house in University Grove. (Photo courtesy of Sue and Bob Gehrz) A host of famous Minnesotans, including legendary football coach Bernie Bierman, famed economist ...

It has already been two years since ceramic artist Francis Pineda-Fischer moved his Sandwich Ceramic studio into the former Midtown Cleaners building on Hamline Avenue near Larpenteur. The space, now ...

After allowing the earth to rest for about five years, plans are underway for replanting the Native American Medicine Garden on the University of Minnesota’s St. Paul campus. The land needed time to ...

Despite its once-predicted demise, the printed book is alive and well. And the same is true of independent bookstores, whose numbers have doubled nationally in the last eight years. Riding that wave ...

A farm-scale, poultry-centered, regenerative agroforestry project has brought 100 degraded acres near Northfield back to life in two short years. Julie Ristau, executive director of the nonprofit Main ...

As winter turned to spring in our St. Paul neighborhoods this year, the melting snow revealed an unusual plethora of pine cones dotting the landscape of many evergreen-heavy yards. The more evergreens ...