The recommended design layout for reconstructing Grand Avenue from Snelling to Fairview. Nearly $7M project now enters final design stage for 2024 reconstruction Plans for reconstructing Grand Avenue between Snelling and Fairview avenues next year are one step closer to…
A CUP of prejudice“Ma’am, no student feels welcome in your neighborhood.” That was the response of an African American student when a University of Saint Thomas (UST) neighbor asked whether the student felt welcome in the neighborhood. The response was…
Annual fee for single-family home increases from $60.24 to $129.41The cost of curbside recycling will more than double for most Saint Paul property owners in 2023 under a resolution approved on December 14 by the City Council. For the owners…
One option being considered for the Grand Avenue median that bisects Macalester College would raise the road surface to be even with the curbs, widen the existing east and west pedestrian crossings and remove the center crossing. The Macalester-Groveland Community…
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…
Saint Paul’s latest plan for a new off-street bicycle and pedestrian trail along Summit Avenue will be unveiled at an open house from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, October 27, at Hidden River (formerly Ramsey) Middle School, 1700 Summit Ave.The Summit Avenue…
Twenty-year practice was deemed a tax on nonprofits. The city of Saint Paul’s controversial street maintenance assessment program has ended 20 years after it began. City officials have opted not to appeal a May ruling by a Ramsey County District…
Saint Paul officials want answers from the city’s consortium of five residential trash haulers, after receiving almost 3,000 complaints about missed garbage and yard waste pickups in the first 10 days of June. The missed pickups are a big increase…
Public comments are being sought on a plan to add new pavement, sidewalks, streetlights and underground utilities on Grand Avenue between Snelling and Fairview avenues. The estimated $7 million project is scheduled to start in 2024. The stretch of Grand…
The theft of copper wire from light poles on Saint Paul’s streets and in parks cost the city more than $300,000 in 2021 and is likely to top that total in 2022. City Council members heard an update on April…
A quarter-mile of Prior Avenue just north of I-94 will be reconstructed in 2022. The section between Gilbert and University avenues will be largely closed to traffic from June to November as the Saint Paul Department of Public Works gives…
The Saint Paul City Council approved a $457,000 allocation on November 3 from the Great River Passage Conservancy to design a new Mississippi River education center at Watergate Marina and Crosby Farm Regional Park. The project has been on the…
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