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Pete Lopresti
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Star-kissed: A treasured memory is best kept locked away

My Uncle Bill had a job at the old Met Center in Bloomington, and when he was working a Minnesota North Stars game, he often took my cousin Natalie and me along. The North Stars were Minnesota’s first National Hockey…

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January 24, 2023
Summit trail
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This serious cyclist is pumped about Summit Avenue Regional Trail

Saint Paul's plan for a new regional trail along Summit Avenue includes one-way paths on either side of the street built within the existing curbs. I take issue with Patrick Contardo and Robyn Roslak’s assertion that parking-protected, off-street bike paths…

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December 6, 2022
summit and lexington
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Summit Ave. trail plan overlooks needs of serious cyclists

Saint Paul’s proposed $12 million Summit Avenue Regional Trail is fraught with many unknowns that will likely result in unintended and irreversible consequences—and with no proven increase in its primary goal: bicycle safety. Before city officials approve the recently unveiled…

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November 22, 2022
Voigt drawing
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Siblings’ brush with great art was a master stroke for weary Mom

Even when finances were tight, Mom always saved enough for art lessons for her children. Each Saturday at 10 a.m., she stopped vacuuming, folding laundry or putting away groceries to hand $1 bills to each of us—her seven budding artists,…

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November 8, 2022
Read more about the article Plan for River Learning Center can be improved
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Plan for River Learning Center can be improved

The city of Saint Paul, as the owner and one of the partners of the proposed Mississippi River Learning Center in Crosby Farm Regional Park, hosted a public meeting on August 11 to unveil an initial schematic design for the…

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September 13, 2022
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Don’t blame politicians for flaws of rent control

Marri Renne writes about why rent control is a bad idea (MyVillager Inbox, August 3). She gives a detailed account of the effects of Saint Paul’s new rent control ordinance on her ability as a landlord to improve her property…

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August 31, 2022
Women With Walkers
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Women With Walkers stand up against guns

July 28, was a beautiful day, not only for the sun and occasional clouds, but for the 90-plus voices gathered on the boulevard along Fairview Avenue. Of the 90 who were there, 34 were Women With Walkers who invited any…

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August 31, 2022
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Longing for a return to a simpler way of life

I grew up in the 1950s in a family of nine who shared a single telephone on the wall in the kitchen. With its extra-long curly cord, if we wanted privacy we just walked around to the living room. The…

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August 17, 2022
summit ave bike trails
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Two-way off-road trail would multiply the risk factor for Summit Ave. cyclists

The city of Saint Paul’s regional trail planning exercise for Summit Avenue is on a path for an irresponsible solution more dangerous for bicyclists and at the highest possible cost to taxpayers. For 2.5 of Summit Avenue’s 4.5 miles, the…

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August 3, 2022
Summit avenue bike trail
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Narrowing Summit, moving bike paths outside curbs makes for safer riding

The city of Saint Paul presented ideas in June about possible ways to change Summit Avenue’s on-street bike lanes to off-street bike paths. Essentially, the position of the parked cars and the existing bike lanes would be switched. The parked…

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August 3, 2022
summit ave bike trails
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City is pursuing high-risk, high-cost bike path on Summit

Two-way trail poses a danger to bicyclists and motorists alike. The city of Saint Paul’s regional trail planning exercise for Summit Avenue is on a path for an irresponsible solution more dangerous for bicyclists and at the highest possible cost…

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July 25, 2022
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The vacant lot next door: Our neighborhood’s field of dreams

 I remember the day we lost our vacant lot. It was where we played kickball and baseball as kids, racing from the first base pine tree to the second base divot by the alley to the third base apple tree…

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July 6, 2022
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