New Brighton

There, dressed in a pink bow tie, pink suspenders and a grey shirt, next to host Steve Harvey, stood New Brighton resident Steve Beckman. 

Beckman was tasked with answering a sudden-death question to win the game show “Family Feud.” 

Up a little hill off Old Highway 8 and County Road D in New Brighton stands Barley John’s Brew Pub, the eatery and pub where John Moore has brewed and served craft beer all under the same roof since 2000. 

Brian Strub served on the New Brighton City Council for a term from 2014 to 2017, and decided not run for reelection last fall. 

As temperatures jumped into the upper 20s on Jan. 17, a small crowd gathered and cars slowed while passing by 2777 16th St. NW in New Brighton to see the Bartz brothers’ latest creation. 

Mayor looks forward to more unity.

New Brighton native and Irondale High School graduate Sarah Janecek, a veteran political pundit, died during a trip to Brazil on Jan. 12. She was 57. 

Gricel Alvarez, 16, sat at the head of the table in her mobile home in Oak Grove Park, the bright light from another recent white-out, wintry morning pouring in through a large window.

The New Brighton City Council at its Dec. 12 meeting voted to change the year of the city’s elections from odd to even years, again. 

If the ordinance holds, 2019 municipal elections are canceled and moved to 2020.

New Brighton City Council member Gina Bauman said New Brighton Mayor Val Johnson gets “unhinged quite often if you don’t agree with her” while being interviewed by Tucker Carlson on the Dec.

Police-worn body camera research and debate has intensified following recent high profle police shootings, such as the killing of Michael Brown in St. Louis in 2014.