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The beach at Lake Phalen and the pools at Highland and Como Parks open for the season Saturday. Here’s a rundown of east metro swimming opportunities. CITY OF ST PAUL Phalen Park Beach will be open Saturday to Aug. 26. It features a new splash pad this year. Como Park Regional Pool and Highland Park Aquatic Center will be open Saturday to Sept. 3, with highlights including splash pads, climbing walls and water slides. Admission is $6 for swimmers shorter than 48 inches; $7 for all others. More information: www.stpaul.gov/departments/parks-recreation/aquatics  RAMSEY COUNTY Lifeguards will be on duty from noon to 8 p.m. starting Saturday at the beaches in Tony Schmidt Regional Park, Lake Josephine County Park, Long Lake Regional Park, Lake McCarrons County Park and White Bear Lake County Park. The county parks at Lake Gervais, Lake Owasso and Turtle Lake have unguarded beaches. The water park at Battle Creek Regional Park also opens Saturday. Admission is $7; free for … [Read more...] about St. Paul pools open Saturday — here’s where to take a dip

The hottest baby names for girls and boys in Minnesota are … pretty much the same. The Social Security Administration on Thursday listed the most common names given state-by-state to babies in 2017. Minnesota’s most popular names were only two letters apart — Olivia and Oliver. Earlier, the SSA reported the most popular names nationwide, which show how much Minnesota deviates from national norms. Minnesota’s top girls’ names were Olivia, Evelyn, Emma, Charlotte and Nora. For boys, they were Oliver, William, Henry, Liam and Theodore. But Oliver is not even on the top-five list for boys’ names nationally. In the U.S., the top appellations were Liam, Noah, William, James and Logan for boys. The most common girls’ names were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Isabella and Sophia. In terms of the Olivia/Oliver sweep, Wisconsin seemed to follow the same trend — the names are No. 2 on both top-five lists for boys and girls. Wisconsin’s favorite male … [Read more...] about Minnesota’s most popular baby name? Almost the same for boys, girls

By Frank Pine | [email protected] | Daily News PUBLISHED: May 3, 2018 at 3:28 pm | UPDATED: May 8, 2018 at 9:03 am Beginning this week, this news organization will no longer be giving its work away online. Print readers have always paid for the news, though to be fair, the price of a subscription often doesn’t cover even the cost of newsprint and delivery. The truth is, news gathering has traditionally been funded by advertising, but in these days of declining print advertising, those print dollars just don’t go far enough, and online advertising just isn’t making up the difference. Real news gathering – the kind done by professional journalists who put their names on their work and who are accountable for its accuracy, fairness and balance – is not cheap. So this week, we’re launching a digital subscription program, asking those who read our news to support local journalism by subscribing. The first four weeks is only 99 cents. After that, … [Read more...] about Daily Breeze to charge for unlimited access to digital news to help support local journalism

By Frank Pine | [email protected] | Daily News PUBLISHED: May 3, 2018 at 3:28 pm | UPDATED: May 8, 2018 at 10:26 am Beginning this week, this news organization will no longer be giving its work away online. Print readers have always paid for the news, though to be fair, the price of a subscription often doesn’t cover even the cost of newsprint and delivery. The truth is, news gathering has traditionally been funded by advertising, but in these days of declining print advertising, those print dollars just don’t go far enough, and online advertising just isn’t making up the difference. Real news gathering – the kind done by professional journalists who put their names on their work and who are accountable for its accuracy, fairness and balance – is not cheap. So this week, we’re launching a digital subscription program, asking those who read our news to support local journalism by subscribing. Related: Questions and answers about the subscription … [Read more...] about Press-Enterprise to charge for unlimited access to digital news to help support local journalism

By Frank Pine | [email protected] | Daily News PUBLISHED: May 3, 2018 at 3:28 pm | UPDATED: May 8, 2018 at 10:16 am Beginning this week, this news organization will no longer be giving its work away online. Print readers have always paid for the news, though to be fair, the price of a subscription often doesn’t cover even the cost of newsprint and delivery. The truth is, news gathering has traditionally been funded by advertising, but in these days of declining print advertising, those print dollars just don’t go far enough, and online advertising just isn’t making up the difference. Real news gathering – the kind done by professional journalists who put their names on their work and who are accountable for its accuracy, fairness and balance – is not cheap. So this week, we’re launching a digital subscription program, asking those who read our news to support local journalism by subscribing. The first four weeks is only 99 cents. After that, … [Read more...] about OC Register to charge for unlimited access to digital news to help support local journalism