The Villager, formerly the Highland Villager, is a newspaper from Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was founded in 1953 as the Highland Villager, a newspaper for the Highland Park neighborhood, and is the oldest community newspaper in the Twin Cities. It absorbed a sister paper Avenues in 2007 (which had been Grand Gazette till 2003).
As of 2007, its circulation covered the Saint Paul neighborhoods of Highland Park, Macalester-Groveland, Merriam Park, Snelling-Hamline, Lexington-Hamline, Summit-University, Summit Hill, West 7th/Fort Road, and Downtown; the Minneapolis neighborhoods of Hiawatha and Minnehaha; and suburban Mendota, Mendota Heights, and Lilydale.
The newspaper is published twice a month on Wednesdays, with free doorstep delivery to 50,000 homes/apartments/businesses. An additional 10,000 copies are distributed free of charge via local newsstands. The newspaper is unusual in not making its content available online.
Famous quotes containing the word villager:
“The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)