Christy Iverson helped customers on the front desk of the Pioneer Press lobby for a few years, but she also had a way with words.
In 2012, in a Pioneer Press Turning Point column, Iverson described the experience of living...
After navigating Mastel’s Health Foods through the early stages of the pandemic, longtime employees Lauren Gaffney and Alina Hornfeldt knew they were ready for his or her next move — becoming the shop’s recent owners.
Situated at 1526 St. Clair...
Stu Abraham, a sales representative for publishers in Minnesota and the Midwest for greater than 40 years, has won the 2023 Kay Sexton Award.
Stu Abraham (Courtesy Friends of the St. Paul Public Library)
The Sexton Award is an element of...
David Snyder recalled how Vic Rosenthal hired him to guide a statewide initiative on responsible banking investments. A gathering with Black leaders in North Minneapolis convinced each men to pivot as a substitute toward an emerging crisis in predatory...
Longtime community activist and St. Paul resident Vic Rosenthal, 68, was honored Saturday by the town declaring March 18 “Victor Rosenthal Day” in honor of his a long time of community organizing and work for social justice.
Within the proclamation...
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Renee AlexanderFrom Fox 9, the Minnesota State Fair has named its latest CEO. Renee Alexander has been the Fair’s deputy general manager for 13 years.
WCCO TV staff report a construction...
For Martin Stern, the longtime co-owner of Squire House Gardens in Afton, gardens were a metaphor for all times.
“You’ll notice how inspired this whole (planting) process is,” Stern told the Pioneer Press in 2007. “That’s since it’s about life...
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Recently retired boys’ basketball coach Vern Simmons, who led St. Paul Johnson High School’s boys’ basketball team for 20 years, was honored at halftime of the Governor’s 61-60 non-conference victory over Minnehaha Academy on February 4. The victory...
The St. Paul school board voted 5-1 Tuesday to rent a brand new finance chief who was just considered one of two applicants for the job.
Tom Sager, business services director for Mankato Area Public Schools, takes over Oct. 17...
After 18 years of service, Dorothea Harris has retired because the director of Volunteers of America’s (VOA) Culturally Responsive Caregiver Support and Dementia Services.
On August 30, colleagues, peers, community leaders, elders, and state and national partners gathered on the...
Longtime St. Paul Democratic U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum is in search of one other term in Minnesota’s Fourth Congressional District and again faces May...
