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06/29/2026

How did St. Paul celebrate America's bicentennial 50 years ago? Find out here: https://www.twincities.com/2026/06/28/bicentennial-st-paul-mn-1976/

12/12/2025

It was 15 years ago today that chunks of snow and ice broke through the dome's inflatable roof and spilled onto the turf below.

A weekend blizzard had dumped a whopping 17 inches of snow on the dome faster than the short-staffed facilities crew could hose off its 10 acres of surface area with hot water.

12/11/2025

Happy to have an excuse to be late for school, three kids push a stranded motorist out of the snowdrifts at Fourth and Minnesota streets in downtown St. Paul during a winter storm on the morning of Dec. 16, 1940.

The storm, which dropped more than 7 inches of snow on the Twin Cities, came on the heels of the infamous Armistice Day Blizzard a month earlier.

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