Here is the Bugle’s latest Midpoint, a mid-month web report on some local news and information, since the publication of our May 2025 issue: Como Park ...

The on-again, off-again quest by Luther Seminary to sell a section of its campus grounds is back on again. Seminary officials recently said their board of directors has contracted to sell its lower ...

This year the Park Bugle invited its readers to submit poems on the themes of adversity, challenge, change, endurance or perseverance. Sixteen thoughtful poems were submitted, and they explored the ...

This year’s annual Bugle poetry contest attracted various poems with a few reflecting on longevity and perseverance. Besides our three winning poems of this month’s Bugle, here is one additional ...

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, ...

Harrison Mohagen of Buhl Investors. Photo by Lou Michaels. Falcon Heights leaders and officials with Amber Union celebrated in early December the opening of the 125-unit apartment complex. The housing ...

Meghan Gordon remembers when she was not very adept at cooking and baking. “I didn’t have the patience for it,” Gordon recalled. “I couldn’t even boil water. I was a disaster.” But then something ...

With the holiday season upon us, the Bugle asked students from Julie MacGregor Farris’s third grade class at St. Anthony Park Elementary School what they liked best about winter. Here is some of what ...

In St. Anthony Park, lots of people support recycling, so it would seem that the plethora of recycling businesses in the neighborhood would be considered a good thing. But that isn’t always the case.

What are the characteristics of a good apple breeder? Professor James Luby, an expert in fruit-crop breeding and genetics, told me, “Breeding any type of tree is a long-term endeavor—start young, be ...

The Como Woodland Outdoor Classroom encompasses 17.5 acres at the corner of Hamline and Como avenues in the southwest corner of Como Park. The 27 interpretive stations are identified by posts, each of ...

A longtime Mac-Groveland business in St. Paul that counts Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Sheryl Crow and Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page among its customers is moving to a quiet corner in the city’s St.