Harvest Festival changing things up this year – The Harvest Festival has been an East Side tradition for more than 100 years, and while its gone through its ups and downs, it’s been a constant in the community. READ: ow.ly/Or9450w35Kt

Traffic controls coming to handful of busy South St. Paul intersections – 3 of the remaining uncontrolled intersections in South St. Paul on Eighth Ave. S. will soon have some type of traffic controls after the city council voted on Sept. 3. READ: lillienews.com/articles/2019/…

Arlington Hills Lutheran celebrates 110 years on the East Side – On Sept. 8, 1909, Arlington Hills English Evangelical Lutheran Church was formally established. The church has called the East Side home for 110 years. READ: ow.ly/Wmru50w361J

Enjoying summer’s bounty: After taking leave for a week so the parking lot at Corpus Christi Catholic Church could serve as a park and ride for the Minnesota State Fair, the Roseville Farmers’ Market was back on Sept. 3. ow.ly/w02250w5EAT

Now that the New Brighton Elementary School is gone — torn down in late August to make way for housing — memories live on in the minds of residents and parishioners, as well as in the records of the New Brighton Area Historical Society. READ: ow.ly/yVHa50w5EFO

Little Canada wrapping up pumping effort on Twin Lake. READ: lillienews.com/articles/2019/…

Keith Tumulty, 36, has been entering bee products in the fair for the past four years, but this season brought the most success. He said he won a modest amount of cash, ribbons and a honey pot trophy for his efforts. READ: ow.ly/XEnO50w8KmV

Through the years, friends and colleagues have hosted motorcycle memorial runs and other remembrances for Richard Crittenden, who served on the city’s police force for nine years. The day he died is one that many will never forget. READ: ow.ly/sbML50w8KE0

The Oakdale Bark Park, located in the 7400 block of 50th Street North, underwent months-long upgrades and some accompanying delays, but is NOW OPEN for use. READ: ow.ly/E92q50w8M7F

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New public art installments - including a large log bench and plaques about Railroad Island history - are all a part of a series of public art installations at the St. Paul Police Department training facility. READ: ow.ly/CXQd50wbSY1

A major addition at Henry Sibley High School is complete — Warrior Field, the new athletic complex, hosted its first game Sept. 5. The second phase of work will include modernization of classrooms for family and consumer sciences, shop, art and more. READ: ow.ly/MCdo50wbTho

Thanks for all the great games this season, St. Paul Saints!!

“I have always felt education was important,” Bethany Husby says. She had a degree of dyslexia that she had to overcome through all her education. READ: ow.ly/6Vzp50wdyTY

Beverly Stroschein says she got serious about embroidery following her retirement as a secretary for St. Paul Public Schools some 25 years ago. Her grandmother taught her how and she’d make pillowcases and dish cloths to give away as gifts. READ: ow.ly/8Vez50wdz8K

Arden Hills Tobacco, the city’s sole adult-only tobacco store, is suing the city over a recently-approved ban on the sale of flavored tobacco & nicotine products set to go into effect Dec. 31. The business has operated in the city for over a decade. READ: ow.ly/tzVr50wdAnp

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