West Side

Armando Camacho is a young man who clearly loves his new job as president of Neighborhood House. It is a homecoming for Camacho, who came to the West Side from Puerto Rico with his grandparents when he was six years old. Early on, his family connected with Neighborhood House, and today Camacho credits the services they received there with keeping him “off the streets” while he was growing up. MORE »

Real Women Have Curves, a production of Teatro del Pueblo, opened at the Paul and Sheila Wellstone Community Center on Friday, May 9. About an hour into the play, the five women triumphantly shed their clothes and revealed their curves. The audience shared their glee because in doing so, the women were relieved—if only temporarily—of the constant pressures in their lives. The characters are likable, each actress perfectly chosen for her role, and we root for them to succeed. MORE »

West St. Paul’s oldest continuously owned family business, Langula’s Hardware at 919 South Robert, is struggling. MORE »

Neighborhood House (NH) is now settled into its handsome new home on St. Paul’s West Side – the Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center – and its future in the challenging arena of community nonprofits seems upbeat. Still, there’s an obvious question that hasn’t been answered: why was its president, Dan Hoxworth, dismissed by the board of directors last June 19th? MORE »