St Paul

The League of Women Voters St. Paul held a Sept. 18 roundtable discussion with St. Paul Public School board candidates at the East Side Freedom Library. 

The new pickleball courts at North Valley Park, 2800 70th St. in Inver Grove Heights, officially opened Sept. 17 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony full of puns. The six new courts replaced tennis courts.

Despite work not taking place until 2021, discussions are underway for updating the runway and taxiway at Fleming Field, the municipal airport in South St. Paul. 

A new community gathering space called Urban Village has opened at 1082 Arcade St.  

The space, geared toward supporting the local Karen community, fills a long-vacant building.

Police in Florida and Oklahoma arrested two men in connection with the Sept. 2 killing of a 36-year-old St. Paul firefighter in his East Side home.

The Railroad Island neighborhood has some new public art to check out this fall. 

Community of Peace Academy, a pre-k through 12th grade public charter school in the Payne-Phalen neighborhood, is planning to construct an addition to its building. 

Marjorie Otto
news editor

Arlington Hills Lutheran Church has called the East Side home for 110 years.

St. Paul police are continuing to investigate a shooting that took place Sept. 2 that took the life of a St. Paul firefighter. 

Candidate filling for the city council and school board races closed Aug. 13 and East Siders will be seeing full ballots this fall.