North St. Paul celebrated the beginning of the fall season with its Fall Round-Up Parade Sept. 14, which made its way through the city’s downtown. One of the groups included the St. Paul Clown Club, seen above.
Many familiar favorites marched, pedaled and drove down Seventh Avenue for the 2017 Fall Round-Up Parade in North St. Paul, including the United Marching Band, made up of students from School District 622. file photo
With Labor Day, the Minnesota State Fair and the first day of school all behind us, Minnesota has turned the corner toward autumn and its brightly colored leaves, pumpkin spice everything, and North St. Paul’s Fall Round-Up Parade.
Carver Elementary School students were greeted with a surprise on Sept. 4, the first day of the 2018-2019 school year. They were welcomed back to school by Superintendent Christine Osorio, state Rep. JoAnn Ward, state Sen.
North St. Paul’s annual Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Candle Light Remembrance Walk was held Sept. 6, with community members marching from Arthur O. Haukland VFW Post 1350 to North St.
Aundrea Kinney/Review • At presstime, the 71 trees expected to be removed for North St. Paul’s 2018 Street and Utility Public Improvement Project had been reduced to about 50 trees, with city staff and a new resident workgroup examining other ways to try to save even more trees.
The North St. Paul City Council unanimously agreed Aug. 21 to allow a resident workgroup to research options to minimize the loss of trees to utility and road work that’s already underway near Silver Lake.
Mike Kuehn’s presence in the council chambers has been a North St. Paul mainstay for 28 years, a legacy that will come to an end at the close of the year.
courtesy of Google Maps • Developers of the former Anchor Block site shared plans with the North St. Paul City Council to build a variety of residential and commercial buildings on the lot. The vacant lot is located between McKnight Road, Highway 36, Third Street and South Avenue. The Gateway Trail bisects the lot into two parcels. Preliminary plans indicate the section south of the trail could be turned into townhomes, while the section north of it could be a mixture of apartment buildings, a self-storage facility and a coffee shop.
The North St. Paul City Council received an update on the development of the former Anchor Block property at an Aug. 8 special city council workshop.