Como

For the most part, if a restaurant doesn’t look like it’s thriving, we’re skeptical about it. Not every dusty storefront is worth checking out. But we’d heard enough about the counter at Abu Nader that we decided to give it a try. MORE »

I was having coffee with friends last weekend, and the conversation turned to which city was more livable: Minneapolis or St. Paul. One guy argued that St. Paul is a more pleasant city to walk around in because the architecture is more cohesive. “Sure,” replied another, “but name one building that’s gone up in St. Paul in the last 20 years that you’d look at and say, ‘Now that’s great architecture.’ Or 30 years—I’ll even give you 30 years!” MORE »

In today’s troubled economy, as more families turn to local foodshelves, children’s birthdays may be overlooked in the struggle to put basics on the table. Now, thanks to Health Occupations students at the Hubert H. Humphrey Job Corps Center, 100 children’s birthdays will be a little brighter. The students started by decorating brown bags with colorful characters. Then they put into each bag a cake mix, candles, a can of frosting, a little tube of frosting for writing on the cake, forks, plates, napkins and a toy. MORE »

Each year the students at the Hubert H. Humphrey Job Corps Center in the Como Park neighborhood of Saint Paul put on a Halloween party for kids in the neighborhood and their parents. MORE »

The North End/South Como community in Saint Paul has struggled with a disproportionate number of houses and commercial buildings gone vacant, businesses leaving the community, and quality of life issues. In October, the District 6 Planning Council hired CultureBrokers to conduct an analysis of the neighborhood and come up with a community conditions report. MORE »

Although it’s been on the market for about a year, the Sholom Home East property wasn’t a hot topic of discussion in the Como Park neighborhood until a social service provider recently expressed interest in the site. MORE »

After years of meetings, both formal and informal, neighbors living around Como Park have found focus for concerns about traffic, noise and other conditions that arise from having a regional park in one’s back yard. MORE »

We have a new community calendar, and it is ready for you to use. You can find the calendar icon at the top of column 4 on the front page and in the middle of column 1 on all other pages of the Daily Planet. Click on any date in the calendar icon, and you will go to a page listing events for that date. MORE »