People - Bulletin Area

A New Brighton-based start up faced big challenges its first year in business, so its two young founders took on the law, so to speak, in order to ease the red tape that makes operating their business a bit of a hassle.

Brittney Rademacher of Mounds View was selected a spring semester outstanding student at Metropolitan State University where she double-majored in psychology and gender studies and graduated magnu cum laude.

Gabrielle Nead, 10, of Shoreview has been chosen as a state finalist in the National American Miss Minnesota Pageant.

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New Brighton resident Bruce Howard was named the 2015 New Brighton Volunteer of  the year at the city’s volunteer appreciation dinner on Sunday, April 24.

Local entrepreneurs seek legislation to ease restrictions on locating tiny homes

The tiny house movement isn’t only for the young and sprightly. 

A New Brighton company is fielding another path for it, but to make it work, the company’s two young business partners are first wading through the waters of passing new legislation at the state Capitol. 

Chippewa Middle School is home to a garden that was planted about two years ago. 

Now, nearly a dozen schools in District 621 have similar plots for growing vegetables and salad greens.

Dominic Cotroneo has worked with the St. Anthony Police Department since 1982. Starting off just as the department’s reserve program began, he climbed his way from reserve to officer to lieutenant, and has served as captain since 2005. 

Accompanying bus tour up for discussion

Historical records show that St. Anthony Village was once home to more livestock than humans. 

After digging through archives at the St. Anthony Village Historical Society, that tidbit stuck out to local author Gail Olson and inspired the title of her new book, “More Pigs Than People!” 

Olson, a Columbia Heights resident, has worked with the historical society in recent years as a commissioned author, writing books centered on St. Anthony’s history. 

This is her third book about the small suburb, but her first for children, complete with colorful illustrations by St. Anthony Village High School studio art instructor Sarah Gunderson.