Hannah Burlingame

courtesy of City of Inver Grove Heights The Inver Grove Heights City Council on April 8 denied requests to rezone and change the land use for a site on Rich Valley Boulevard that would have allowed for construction of a mini-storage facility.

courtesy of East Side Neighborhood Development Company For the first year of a program created by the East Side Neighborhood Development Company — called the LeadSafeMN Initiative — three East Side census tracts where children showed high levels of lead in their blood were the focus. LeadSafeMN aims to create funding sources and resources to bring lead poisoning down to zero. The initiative will eventually address the 40 census tracts statewide where kids are testing for high levels of lead.

submitted photo Marguerite Newburgh was the first woman to vote in the U.S. after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, as seen in this photo from the Aug. 27, 1920, edition of the Minneapolis Journal. Rep. Anne Claflin is seeking funding for a monument to memorialize the historic vote, which took place in South St. Paul almost 100 years ago.

courtesy Dan Nowickil In an April Fools’ Day post, West St. Paul Marketing and Communications Director Dan Nowicki photoshopped the city’s water tower to pay tribute to the city’s chicken restaurants. He said folks frequently joke about the number of chicken joints in town.

courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society “Mrs. Ambassador: the life and politics of Eugenie Anderson”

courtesy of City of South St. Paul The South St. Paul draft 2040 Comprehensive Plan breaks the city into 12 different planning districts, which take a closer look at future land uses for each section of town.