Park Bugle – Page 210 – The Bugle is a community newspaper serving St. Anthony Park, Lauderdale, Falcon Heights and Como Park.

Wartime air crash snatched young lives and stunned close-knit St. Paul community Despite some clouds and rain, things looked bright for the three boyhood buddies from Como on that summer morning in 1942. Recently graduated from Murray High School, Roy...

Kristal Leebrick

01 Dec 2011

WW II volunteer, world trekker, storyteller

Gertrude Esteros, retired U of M design head, reflects on war, her 97 years and a lifetime of learning Gertrude Esteros still recalls the day she knew she’d see the world. It was spring. She was picking strawberries next to...

Kristal Leebrick

01 Nov 2011

American Top 50 (books, that is)

If you want to know the favorite 50 books of independent booksellers across the country, ask Hans Weyandt, co-owner of Micawber’s Books. By mid-October he’d collected more lists than he cares to count from booksellers spanning the country: rom City...

Judy Woodward

01 Nov 2011

The Peace Corps today

Skype, email, blogging keep volunteers closer to home When Bob Hoyle served with the Peace Corps in the Philippines in the early 1960s, he never once was able to telephone home to Minnesota. For news, he and his fellow volunteers...

Judy Woodward

01 Nov 2011

Peace Corps at 50

One of the first Minnesota volunteers says he took President Kennedy’s call to action to heart His father thought he was crazy. His employer was baffled, and many who knew the quiet, rather retiring young man who’d recently graduated from...

Judy Woodward

01 Nov 2011

Voices: Arla Savage

Photo by Lori Hamlton Arla Savage lived in a distinctive white house on Carter Avenue in north St. Anthony Park for nearly five decades. A tireless volunteer and a classic good neighbor, she was recognized throughout the neighborhood for her...

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School News

A roundup of winter sports at Como Park Senior High and Murray Middle School

Eric Erickson

23 Mar 2015

Como Cougars Girls basketball: The Lady Cougars earned a St. Paul City Championship for the first time in program history with an 11-1 conference record...