Nick Woltman

1 month ago | twincities.com | Nick Woltman

A pair of St. Paul parks will be renamed to reflect their sacred significance to the Dakota people. The City Council on Wednesday voted to change the names of Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary and Indian Mounds Regional Park to Wakáŋ Tipi and Wic̣aḣapi, respectively.

1 month ago | twincities.com | Nick Woltman

The Twin Cities may have escaped the severe weather forecast by meteorologists earlier this week, but the metro wasn’t so lucky 60 years ago. An outbreak of five tornadoes tore through the western and northern suburbs on the evening of May 6, 1965, killing 13 people and injuring hundreds more in what the St. Paul Dispatch described on its front page as a “night of terror.”A sixth twister struck the area between Glencoe and Lester Prairie, just west of the metro.

2 months ago | twincities.com | Nick Woltman

An out-of-towner driving past the Highland Bridge development on Ford Parkway in St. Paul today might be forgiven for wondering how the street got its name. Little evidence remains that more than 2,000 people once clocked in each day at the Ford Motor Company’s sprawling Twin Cities Assembly Plant, where blocks of apartment and condo buildings are now in various stages of construction. It’s been 100 years since the plant opened to great fanfare on the southwestern edge of the city.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Nick Woltman

An out-of-towner driving past the Highland Bridge development on Ford Parkway in St. Paul today might be forgiven for wondering how the street got its name. Little evidence remains that more than 2,000 people once clocked in each day at the Ford Motor Company’s sprawling Twin Cities Assembly Plant, where blocks of apartment and condo buildings are now in various stages of construction. It’s been 100 years since the plant opened to great fanfare on the southwestern edge of the city.

2 months ago | inforum.com | Nick Woltman

ST. PAUL — History is written on the flood wall that protects St. Paul’s low-lying West Side from the Mississippi River. Just east of the Robert Street Bridge, a thin black line marks the crest of the highest flood on record in the Saintly City, which topped out at 26.4 feet in April 1965. Floodwaters raged along roughly 100 miles of the Mississippi that spring, causing $225 million in damage and more than a dozen deaths, according to the National Weather Service.