Member Drive: School Board Coverage
Starting in August, School Board and City Council meetings conflict. We need 20 new members by August 10 to expand our team and continue school board coverage.
Starting in August, School Board and City Council meetings conflict. We need 20 new members by August 10 to expand our team and continue school board coverage.
Meet Joshua Przybylski, our new education correspondent. With City Council and School Board meetings conflicting, he’ll be taking over School Board coverage on an ongoing basis.
It’s Democracy Night in Inver Grove Heights as a local group organizes a candidate forum on July 31 for the City Council primary election.
Opened in 1956, the West St. Paul pool is celebrating its 70th birthday. Join the Golden Gal style birthday party with an event on July 29 (pre-registration required).
We’ve created a printable voters guide for the 2026 primary election in West St. Paul. It’s an at-a-glance chart of local races and can be a starting point for your candidate research.
A 149-foot cell phone tower proposed for Mendota Heights’ Wentworth Park will come back to the Planning Commission with a revised plan and a second public hearing on July 28.
Last week a 60-year-old male on an electric scooter collided with a vehicle at the intersection of Annapolis and Charlton in West St. Paul.
At about 8 p.m. tonight, the West St. Paul Police responded to reports of shots fired at Robert Street and Annapolis. Officers found several casings in the street, but did not locate suspects or identify any victims.
Monday’s City Council meeting had a light agenda with some tweaks to local zoning and rights-of-way and reflection on recent city successes.
The ISD 197 School Board approved next year’s budget and heard about a land acknowledgement plaque and mural at the high school.
On June 5, 1961, West St. Paul teen Nancee Parkinson was crowned Miss Minnesota. The 18-year-old was named fourth runner-up in the Miss America pageant and went on to be a teacher, spokesperson, and had a short career in Hollywood.
A look at Mud Lake on a summer morning.
