Soul of the Southside brings people together
The festival began in 2022 as a celebration of the opening of the Legacy Building, but it quickly gained support and recognition as it evolved into the largest Juneteenth celebration in south …
A tight match
A tight match between MNUFC and Austin ended in a 1-1 tie. MNUFC have been undefeated this season with scoring opening goals. Many of those have been made by Robin Lod who is the all-time top goal …
Aurora for the win
Aurora is smashing their season led by their captain Cat Rapp. Since 2022, Aurora has lost only 1 home game, outscoring others 81-13. They won their third game of the season  against  …
Ward 4 candidate forum set for July 22
Join the League of Women Voters of Saint Paul (LWVSP) and co-sponsors - the Union Park Community Council and the Midway Chamber of Commerce - for a candidate forum for the special election for the …
Westrock paper plant to close
It’s the end of an era in St. Paul’s Midway industrial district as Smurfit Westrock shuts down in June. While the site is hailed by the St. Paul Port Authority for its redevelopment …
Bandana Square hotel turns into shelter
Project Home’s shelter for families will soon move into its new home – the former Best Western Plus Como Park Hotel at Bandana Square. The last of three community meetings to discuss the …
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School & Sports
Students paint pianos for Flint Hills Family Festival
On May 28, 2025, leaders from the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, Flint Hills Resources and Saint Paul Public Schools unveiled 25 public pianos in Rice Park in celebration of 25 years of the …
3DE concludes inaugural year at Como
The freshmen class at Como progressed through a series of case studies this school year in the 3DE (three-dimensional education) program. The experiential learning with local and national companies …
We’re creating one-of-a-kind learning
The Hamline to Hamline Collaboration is finishing the year strong with some truly memorable and engaging learning experiences. In early May, first graders participated in a fun-filled book reading …
Career pathways 2025 graduates
The Career Pathways class of 2025 stands ready to receive their diplomas. Career Pathways is a public charter secondary school at 1355 Pierce Butler Route. (Photo submitted)
Midway Chamber Golf Event 2025
The Midway on the Fairway Golf Tournament has become an important annual tradition for the Midway Chamber of Commerce. Proceeds from this event help the Midway Chamber keep dues affordable and …
HOME & GARDEN
Homeowners experiment with paint colors, say local painters
Whale gray, dry sage and french press are some of the popular names of interior paint colors right now at Benjamin Moore, a paint company. Sid Triantafilou, a local painter and owner of Greco Linden …
Hayes Window expands into new location, offers storm windows
Lost your storm windows over the years? Have windows you can’t open anymore because they were painted shut? Does the glass rattle in the wind? These problems don’t mean that you need to …
A watershed moment
What is a watershed? What is our local watershed called? Where does it begin and end?  What is the largest watershed in the U.S.? According to board chair of the League of …
Recycle your left-over paint with PaintCare
Did you know there’s an option for recycling leftover paint in Minnesota? That’s right, recycling, not just disposing of leftover paint. Since 2014, the non-profit PaintCare has been …
Events - Apr 2024
MASTER GARDENER PLANT SALE MAY 18 Ramsey County Master Gardeners will host their annual plant sale May 18, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Aldrich Arena, 1850 White Bear Ave N, Maplewood. This new …
Opinion
Letters - June 2025
I support the ‘rainbow coalition’ of writers After reading your editorial in the May issue of the Monitor, I feel the need to send an email to show my support for you, the newspaper, …
UFGA mural defaced in Frogtown
“If only we could develop an intolerance for bigotry.” Johnnetta B. Cole “We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.” A Dakota Saying   Hello Monitor …
Grin like you mean it: unlocking self-esteem in every child
When it comes to raising confident, resilient children, we tend to focus on their education, physical health, and emotional well-being. However, there’s something that ties all of these …
The intern becomes the teacher
I often tell people that I was the intern that never left some 46 years ago. I was fresh out of Hamline University and took a job at the Midway Monitor as editor after a brief internship. Over the …
We recognize a non-profit of the month with $1,000
Minnesota can jokingly be called the “land of 10,000 nonprofits” for all the charitable organizations calling our state home. And the Midway can feel like the epicenter of them; our …
Living 50+
'Gotta Dance' with Tina Jackson
Tina Jackson is the “Lady of Line Dance.” She teaches free classes once a month at Sabathani Community Center in South Minneapolis (310 E 38th St), and is at Oxford Community Center in …
‘Good Ancestors’ recognized by Elders Climate Action
The Twin Cities chapter of Elders Climate Action honored three local activists with its annual Good Ancestor award, recognizing their legacies of community-centered climate action. Elders Climate …
Natural organic reduction
Live On Minnesota is working to become the first provider of Natural Organic Reduction (NOR) in the state of Minnesota. Also known as “human composting,” NOR is the safe and peaceful …
Stop and smell the roses Rob McHattie grows
Rob McHattie tries to have as many people as possible stop and smell the roses that he grows.  The St. Paul gardener has raised tea roses for many years, and he shares the blooms with …
Seniors write rich stories
“What do you do when your car is stolen?” Milan Mockovak, 93, wrote in his story, “Life As We Know It.”  “A published story was on my bucket list,” he …
Rebuild, Repair, Recycle
North End Community Center: city's most sustainable community center
In 2018, funding was allocated to begin a campus study for a replacement of the Rice Recreation Center, and in 2019 the project officially started with community engagement and design of a new …
Rethinking I-94 debate renewed
The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) continues to work on draft recommendations for the Rethinking I-94 project. After a long and contentious virtual meeting in January 2025 to discuss …
Minnesota nights getting warmer
The Twin Cities Meteorological Society’s 4th Annual Minnesota State of the Climate event, held at the Anpétu Téca Education Center in Roseville, had a special focus on …
Rethinking I-94 discards fill-in-the-trench options
Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) recommendations headed to the Rethinking I-94 project policy advisory committee on Jan. 17 are provoking debate. Recommendations to set aside at-grade …
Solstice and seeds in 2025
Happy New Year! The winter solstice, harbinger of the beginning of astronomical winter in the Northern Hemisphere and sunlight curmudgeon, has passed. It’s a good thing we have such Grand …

11 AWARDS FOR TMC PUBLICATIONS 2025

At the 158th annual Minnesota Newspaper Association Convention, TMC Publications earned 11 wards. Accepting them in person were (left to right) Tesha M. Christensen, Jan Willms and Terbuto Ochothow. …
Development
Road construction and maintenance updates in Ramsey County
Dale Street: Como Avenue to Highway 36 Traffic is reduced to one lane in each direction . Expect major delays the week of May 5 due to pavement removal operations. Flaggers are present in …
Project Home program coming to Bandana Square
Recently it was announced that   Interfaith Action of Greater Saint Paul  is the new owner of 1010 Bandana Blvd (the former Best Western).   The Walz-Flanagan …
REGIONAL ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
REGIONAL ECONOMIC CONDITIONS Erick Garcia Luna from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis spoke about Regional Economic Conditions during the Midway Chamber Economic Development event on March 27, …
Learn about local businesses in this year’s directory
It’s April, which means the Midway Chamber’s annual directory is out. If you get the Monitor delivered to your house, the directory should have been included. If you’re a member of …
MILESTONES AND INVESTMENTS
If you’re standing at the corner of N. Asbury Street and Spruce Tree Drive, looking northwest to the Snelling/University intersection, you will be staring up at “The Calling,” …
Voices Against Violence
An ‘oppressive’ experience:’ 57 hearings, 80 court orders and 12 parenting time schedules
What do you do when 11 judges and referees, 20 therapists, 12 mediators, two parenting consultants (with 37 directives), one custody evaluator, and one guardian ad litem haven’t been able to …
Violence Free Minnesota issues statement on Burnsville Police and EMT domestic violence homicides
Violence Free Minnesota issued the following statement on Tuesday, Feb. 20 to call attention to the full circumstances around Shannon Cortez Gooden's murder of two police officers and an EMT in …
Domestic abuse victim jailed
During Domestic Violence Awareness Month, a Minnesota judge ordered a victim to jail for not forcing her daughter to see her father. Dani* was ordered to serve 30 days in jail on Oct. 2, 2023 or …
From their Standpoint
Thi Synavone came to the U.S. in 1979 as a Laotian refugee. After living in many states, her family settled in Minnesota in 1988. Synavone said that growing up, domestic and sexual violence was never …
CAUGHT BETWEEN
She lived in Minnesota for only five months and her daughter was born in Iowa, but Dani* has been dragged into family court in Minnesota nearly every one of the past 11 years by her ex-boyfriend. …
GOOD NEIGHBOR
She helps others meet the trees
  Last year, D10 Como Community Council received a grant from the Saint Paul Audubon Society to support a new initiative for the Como Park Tree Trek. For several years, the Tree Trek …
‘Inside Senior Living’ docu-series explores aging
In an exciting development for the local television landscape, “Inside Senior Living,” a groundbreaking docu-series, has announced its partnership with PBS North. The series, set to …
Hamline-Midway
A 10-year plan for the Hamline-Midway neighborhood goes to the St. Paul Planning Commission for a public hearing at 8:30 a.m. Friday, July 25 at City Hall. The commission’s Comprehensive …
On Thursday, May 20, 2025, Hubert H. Humphrey Job Corps (1480 Snelling Ave.) celebrated 120 graduates. Of those, 65 returned to participate in the ceremony. Those who couldn’t attend were …
The Metro Transit Police Department and multiple partner agencies unveiled a new, collaborative initiative focused on improving conditions along University Avenue and on the METRO Green Line on May …
Como
Como Lake neighbors continue to be unhappy about the loss of mature trees, saying they didn’t have a say in the $10 million Wheelock-Grotto area street reconstruction project. The St. Paul City …
Como Park Lutheran is partnering with the St. Paul Growers Association to bring a farmers’ market Thursdays 2-6 p.m. all summer through Oct. 30 at 1545 Hamline Ave. There will be a variety of …
‘The Little Mermaid’ on stage The Como Park Theater Department performed the adapted musical version of Disney’s The Little Mermaid during the weekend of April 26-27. Saturday …
Frogtown
I’ve been discovering plenty of new things to experience lately. Funny how a previously unknown author or new jazz recordings can alter one’s state of being. So too, things overlooked, …
Spring has arrived! “Meteorological spring” began March 1 and will last until May 3. The spring or vernal equinox kicked off on March 20 this year, marking when the equator receives the …
Is there anyone in the United States who has not been affected, indirectly or directly, by the changes enacted by our new President and his unelected sidekick? Farmers, consumers, doctors, …
George Floyd Square
GFS: Sowing seeds of solidarity
The little white house at 4600 Columbus Ave. S. is a typical south Minneapolis home. It has a garden out back and another out front, where every year in mid-July the Black-eyed Susans bloom. Its …
REMEMBERING GEORGE FLOYD
People gathered May 25-28, 2022 to commemorate the 2nd angelversary of George Floyd’s death. Others lost to police violence were remembered, and their families, who continue to push for change, …
A voice for justice
Becoming an activist in a worldwide movement for racial justice was beyond anything Angela Harrelson would have imagined for her life. But the murder of her nephew, George Perry Floyd, Jr. – or …
Did Minneapolis mislead, downplay public input on 38th & Chicago survey?
Since late 2020 Mayor Jacob Frey has made known his intent to reopen the intersection at 38th St. E and Chicago Ave. S. When interim design surveys were returned in spring 2021, he and city leaders …
The People's Closet makes fashion, political statement
Sometimes a revolutionary act is quiet, unseen. Sometimes it’s loud and worn on a shirtsleeve. At The People’s Closet at George Floyd Square, it’s a little bit of both.Born out of …
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