To place an obituary, please include the information from the obituary checklist below in an email to obits@pioneerpress.com. There is no option to place them through our website. Feel free to contact our obituary desk at 651-228-5263 with any questions.
General Information:
Your full name,
Address (City, State, Zip Code),
Phone number,
And an alternate phone number (if any)
Obituary Specification:
Name of Deceased,
Obituary Text,
A photo in a JPEG or PDF file is preferable, TIF and other files are accepted, we will contact you if there are any issues with the photo.
Ad Run dates
There is a discount for running more than one day, but this must be scheduled on the first run date to apply.
If a photo is used, it must be used for both days for the discount to apply, contact us for more information.
Policies:
Verification of Death:
In order to publish obituaries a name and phone number of funeral home/cremation society is required. We must contact the funeral home/cremation society handling the arrangements during their business hours to verify the death. If the body of the deceased has been donated to the University of Minnesota Anatomy Bequest Program, or a similar program, their phone number is required for verification.
Please allow enough time to contact them especially during their limited weekend hours.
A death certificate is also acceptable for this purpose but only one of these two options are necessary.
Guestbook and Outside Websites:
We are not allowed to reference other media sources with a guestbook or an obituary placed elsewhere when placing an obituary in print and online. We may place a website for a funeral home or a family email for contact instead; contact us with any questions regarding this matter.
Obituary Process:
Once your submission is completed, we will fax or email a proof for review prior to publication in the newspaper. This proof includes price and days the notice is scheduled to appear.
Please review the proof carefully. We must be notified of errors or changes before the notice appears in the Pioneer Press based on each day’s deadlines.
After publication, we will not be responsible for errors that may occur after final proofing.
Online:
Changes to an online obituary can be handled through the obituary desk. Call us with further questions.
Payment Procedure:
Pre-payment is required for all obituary notices prior to publication by the deadline specified below in our deadline schedule. Please call 651-228-5263 with your payment information after you have received the proof and approved its contents.
Credit Card: Payment accepted by phone only due to PCI (Payment Card Industry) regulations
EFT: Check by phone. Please provide your routing number and account number.
Cash: Accepted at our FRONT COUNTER Monday – Friday from 8:00AM – 3:30PM
Rates:
The minimum charge is $162 for the first 10 lines.
Every line after the first 10 is $12.20.
If the ad is under 10 lines it will be charged the minimum rate of $162.
On a second run date, the lines are $8.20 per line, starting w/ the first line.
For example: if first run date was 20 lines the cost would be $164.
Each photo published is $125 per day.
For example: 2 photos in the paper on 2 days would be 4 photo charges at $500.
Deadlines:
Please follow deadline times to ensure your obituary is published on the day requested.
Hours
Deadline (no exceptions)
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MEMORIAM (NON-OBITUARY) REQUEST
Unlike an obituary, Memoriam submissions are remembrances of a loved one who has passed. The rates for a memoriam differ from obituaries.
Please call or email us for more memoriam information
Please call 651-228-5280 for more information.
HOURS: Monday – Friday 8:00AM – 5:00PM (CLOSED WEEKENDS and HOLIDAYS)
Please submit your memoriam ad to memoriams@pioneerpress.com or call 651-228-5280.
St. Paul Park officials last week approved the final plat for a new housing subdivision, the first in the city since the mid-1980s.
Homebuilder Lennar Corp. plans to build 61 single-family homes on 30 acres located east of the railroad tracks and south of Summit and Ashland avenues. Construction of homes in the development, called Geneva Meadows, will begin in late 2025 or early 2026, with first closing expected to be in the spring of 2026, said Danielle Tocco, vice president of communications at Lennar Corp.
Home prices are expected to start in the low- to mid-$400,000 range, she said.
Lennar plans to extend Lincoln and Summit avenues south into the property, and the home sites will be accessed from those roads, which would then connect on the south end of the development.
New city adminstrator
St. Paul Park, population 5,600, is “poised to take off and do some really cool things with people coming and the community growing,” said City Administrator Hugo McPhee, who was hired this summer after former city administrator Kevin Walsh resigned.
Prior to joining St. Paul Park, McPhee, 60, of Bloomington, served as a consultant for Washington, D.C.-based Center for Public Safety Management.
He also previously worked as deputy city manager of Burnsville; served as the executive director of the state’s Private Detective and Protective Agent Services Regulatory Board and was the director of public safety of the Three Rivers Park District in the western suburbs.
McPhee has a master’s degree in management with an emphasis in human resources from the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota, and a bachelor’s degree in business from Marian College in Fond du Lac, Wis.
McPhee said he was interested in the St. Paul Park position, in part, because of the opportunity to mentor emerging leaders at city hall.
“The city has had some turnover, and this was a chance to work with new department heads and ensure we’re dialed into the community,” he said. “I wanted to get back to working in a small community and connecting city services with residents.”
Among the new hires: interim police chief Craig Elgin, who took over from former Police Chief Jessica Danberg, who resigned in May; Public Works Superintendent Tony Brinkman, who was promoted in January after the resignation of Jeff Dionisopoulos, and Finance Director Dawn Monahan, the former assistant city manager and finance director in Berry, Vt., who was hired after the former finance director, Melody Santana-Marty, resigned in April.
McPhee’s annual salary is $155,000.