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 leadership change is taking place at Como Park High School. Starting in July, Diana Brown is the new principal for the high school, succeeding Kirk Morris, who has become an assistant superintendent ...

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 ...

By Janet Wight Encompassing 40 acres, the Hansen Tree Farm in Ramsey is the closest Christmas tree farm to the Twin Cities, and it has local roots: It’s owned by longtime St. Anthony Park residents ...

by Eliza L. Swedenborg These are the trees whose great arms embrace The sun and give a shaded space A shelter for a world hard as this For a child’s first steps, a couple’s first kiss These are the ...

Art vendors, local musicians, community booths and food trucks came together to create a day of fun and activity at the 56th St. Anthony Park Arts Festival in early June. Photos by Laura Adrian, Bugle ...

Older adult programs at the North Dale Recreation Center are unique because community members started those activities themselves. The free weekly programs include Senior Fitness, knit and crochet, ...

The following is a list of contestants and their poems for the Bugle’s 12 th annual poetry competition: Susan Warde -Second place finisher All Things Come She arrived on schedule, mid-May, all whiz ...

You could say the Como neighborhood landed a keeper when Mac’s Fish & Chips opened shop in a former Clark gas station at the corner of Larpenteur and Hamline avenues. The small-scale, modest ...

Our exceptionally warm winter, nearly without snow, was better suited to Missouri than Minnesota. Already, summer has brought extraordinary storms and record-setting heatwaves. These signs of our ...

By Janet Wight After a 13-year run, the Foxy Falafel restaurant in south St. Anthony Park shuttered its doors on July 21. Owner Erica Strait explained it was “time to move on and try something ...

James Schrankler, St. Anthony Park Elementary’s nationally recognized science and engineering teacher, is retiring at the end of the current school year. Beloved by fellow staff members and students, ...