Pioneer Press Winter Carnival
2019 Winter Carnival buttons will be unveiled on Saturday
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vulcan-torchlight-parade013.jpg, Jay Loven and his daughter Cassie, 7, center, of Bloomington watch a display of fireworks in Rice Park during the conclusion of the Vulcan Victory Tor
By KATHY BERDAN | kberdan@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressA sure sign the St. Paul Winter Carnival is on its wintry way: the carnival button designs f
No Crashed Ice, no Super Bowl. Where’s the winter fun this year? Do not despair.
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art-shanty-projects002.webp, Clara Schiller pedals visitors in her Seal Pedicab out to the structures in the Art Shanty Project on White Bear Lake, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017. (Pioneer
By FREDERICK MELO | fmelo@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressRed Bull Crashed Ice — which drew up to 150,000 spectators to St. Paul annually — skated out
ljd_tree_lighting-2.jpg, The city of St. Paul kicked off the winter and holiday season with a tree lighting ceremony and fireworks show in Rice Park in downtown on Saturday, N
RICE PARK TREE LIGHTING: In St. Paul, the annual Rice Park tree-lighting ceremony is still scheduled for this weekend, fireworks and all, though not e
art-shanty-projects002.webp, Clara Schiller pedals visitors in her Seal Pedicab out to the structures in the Art Shanty Project on White Bear Lake, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017. (Pioneer
ART SHANTY PROJECTS: It was an upstart idea, back in 2004, when Minneapolis photographer Peter Haakon Thompson built an art shanty on a frozen lake as
european-christmas-market_2_union-depot-large.jpg, The European Christmas Market at Union Depot opens this weekend.
Now in its 40th year, the downtown St. Paul Landmark Center’s Holiday Bazaar will feature holiday music and refreshments, Nov. 29 to Dec.1. Grand Aven
jmp-004-0118-wild-pep-rally2.jpg, Fans lift their signs at a Minnesota Wild Stanley Cup Playoffs Pep Rally at TRIA Rink in St. Paul on Wednesday, April 11, 2018. (Jean Pieri / Pioneer
For now, fans of cold-weather sports could head over to the new Tria Rink in downtown St. Paul to check out a Minnesota Wild practice or the Whitecaps
jea-0009-lvs-vs-mh-semi-aa.jpg, A pair of patriotic Lakeville South Cougars fans cheer as their team takes on the Moorhead Spuds in the second period in a Class 2A semifinal game of
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St. Paul’s giant tree has moved, but lights will still glow starting Saturday
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By KATHY BERDAN | kberdan@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressYou know how Santa Claus can still find you after you move? Well, tree-lighting festivities
St. Paul’s Winter Carnival moving to Kellogg Park Mall, along Mississippi River
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20080115_061901_ICECarve2.webp, Ice carver John Franks of Blaine is covered with a coating of ice as he does detail work on the velociraptor fossil he was carving for the Science Mus
By PIONEER PRESS | news@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressThe hub of St. Paul’s 2019 Winter Carnival will move this year from Rice Park to Kellogg Mall
Winter Carnival: Applications open for 2019 Queen of Snows, Junior Royalty and Senior Royalty
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royal-coronation012.webp, Jilla Nadimi, Aurora, Queen of Snows, blows kisses to the crowd after she and Tom Leonard, Boreas LXXXII, were crowned at the St. Paul Winter Carnival
By MOLLY GUTHREY | mguthrey@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressThere’s not a glass slipper, but still the search for the 2019 Queen of Snows has begun.Th
Future of St. Paul’s Rice Street Parade is cloudy
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160730_ricestreetparadefile.webp, Sisters Jada Brown, 2, left, Net Brown, 8, Phajja Brown, 4, and friend Raekwon Johnson, 7, reach for beads during the 2003 Rice Street Parade. (Pionee
By FREDERICK MELO | fmelo@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressThe doughnut salesman reportedly roughed up by a young passer-by inside his vending truck a
Klondike Kate candidates, are you ready?
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senior-royalty-2018003.webp, Klondike Kate 2017 Kristen Oster, left, joins Klondike Kate 2018, Natalia Hemingway, right, in song prior to the coronation of the 2018 Senior Royalty
By KATHY BERDAN | kberdan@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressThe grease has barely cooled in the Minnesota State Fair Pronto Pup vats, but it’s time to s
St. Paul’s Art Blakey, longserving State Fair police chief and pioneering sheriff’s deputy, dies at 83
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artblakey.webp, In an Aug. 10, 2017 photo, Art Blakey, chief of police for the Minnesota State Fair, walks the fairgrounds in 2017. For two weeks at the end of every
By DEANNA WENIGER | Pioneer PressArt Blakey Jr. lived the last few days of his life as he’d lived most every day of his 83 years: surrounded by commun
dsc_64631.webp, Art Blakey Jr. gathers with his family — including his 9-year-old granddaughter, Braylyne Blakey, whom he has his arm around, and wife, Carolyn Carrol
“We were experiencing a lot of gang issues, drug issues,” he said. “Art was very instrumental in helping us get jackets to identify us. He was county
Rice Park closes for the summer — to be reborn in the late fall
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rice-park.webp, Rice Park is seen in August of 2000. The bronze statue titled “The Source” in Rice Park was donated in 1965. (Pioneer Press)
By FREDERICK MELO | fmelo@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer PressOn Thursday, the city of St. Paul said goodbye to Rice Park as thousands of St. Paul residen