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 ...

Dave Healy is a 30+ resident of St. Anthony Park and a retired college teacher and administrator (Bethel College and the U of M) and editor (The Writing Center Journal, Public Art Review, Park Bugle).

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 ...

With Luther Seminary recently putting its entire campus up for sale, the District 12 Community Council has now formed a citizens’ advisory task force “to help ensure that neighborhood voices are ...

Sammy Nelson’s outlook for 2026 at the Gibbs Farm: Pathways to Dakota & Pioneer Life is proof that a cherished historic resource is also a place for innovation. Construction is planned for 2026 at the ...

The sixth annual Chroma Zone Mural & Art Festival returns in 2025 with nine new murals, a visiting artist talk in June, and three days of events and tours in mid-September in the Creative Enterprise ...

For high school graduating classes, 2020 has been a year like no other. Starting in mid-March, the nation’s coronavirus pandemic prompted Minnesota to implement “shelter in place” mandates that ...

Three months after the Bugle launched its 2025 annual fall campaign, donors met the newspaper’s challenge in contributing more than $50,000 in funds for our operations. From July 1, 2025 to Jan. 14, ...

The Como Park High School girls basketball team on Wednesday night won in Class 3A section 3 quarterfinal s play. The Cougars, at their home court, defeated Highland Park 75 to 33.

Editor’s note: With this issue the Bugle launches a new column, the Minnesota Native Plant of the Month. The contribution comes from the Como Community Seed Library. CCSL was founded in 2015 to ...

Steve Wellington, president and owner of real estate company Wellington Management, was named one of Minnesota’s “10 mostadmired CEOs” by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal in September. Each ...

*In 1886, Mrs. Jennie Hall moved to St. Anthony Park, where she recalled listening to the whippoorwills at night: “It was a very pretty spot, right among the trees, and we had all the wildflowers that ...