What does Woodbury have to offer?

Trails, parks and scenic views for lovers of the outdoors, restaurants for the foodies and “phone eats first” Instagram crew, energizing attractions for adrenaline junkies, local businesses and, best of all, community, according to Eric Satre, marketing manager for the city’s new visitors bureau, Destination Woodbury.

“We know Woodbury is a welcoming city and we know it’s a great place to visit,” Satre said.

Destination Woodbury, a city-funded destination marketing organization, launches Saturday at the Woodbury Community Expo. There, Satre will unveil the brand’s new website, parks and trails map and host live demonstrations of what the site has to offer.

“We’ll provide itineraries, things to do and places to stay,” Satre said. “It’s really just a one-stop shop for visitor resources.”

The idea for the tourist bureau has been in the works for several years, Satre said. As the city continues to grow and develop, with locations like Central Park re-opening in the fall, and businesses like Top Golf and Main Event opening later in the year, “now seemed to be the right time,” he said.

Satre, whose position is funded by Woodbury’s hotel lodging tax, has been in the tourism business for 18 years, having previously worked with Visit St. Paul and Visit Inver Grove Heights.

Explore Minnesota lists dozens of cities and regions that have their own visitor information websites, similar to Destination Woodbury.

But while the main purpose of Destination Woodbury is to attract visitors outside of the 50-mile radius, it’s also meant for Woodbury residents looking to discover new attractions and book venues for special events like weddings and family reunions, Satre said.

The organization also promotes local businesses by providing them a platform to share their stories, he said.

“The community in Woodbury is growing and developing and I feel like Destination Woodbury can grow alongside of it,” Satre said.

Woodbury is a prime spot for visitors, Satre said, as Interstate 94 connects it to the city of St. Paul and travelers can now use Metro Transit’s new Bus Rapid Transit route, the Gold Line, to explore.

“We have a great location here for visitors whether they’re staying in Woodbury or maybe they want to make it their home base and go to a concert in downtown St. Paul, a game or the St. Croix River Valley,” Satre said.

As of now, Destination Woodbury is only a website, but will open as a visitor’s desk in Woodbury Central Park this summer, according to Satre.

“Guests can come and ask questions about what there is to do, places to go, local restaurants and so forth,” Satre said.

Satre said the organization will help streamline the messaging of what Woodbury has to offer.

“My vision is to to launch the brand and the website in year one, then grow it from there,” Satre said. “I mean, this is really just the beginning, which is very exciting.”

For more information visit destinationwoodbury.com. To submit a business, attraction, or event for consideration, contact info@destinationwoodbury.com.

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Woodbury Community Expo

What: More than 150 business and organizations offer promotional booths, hosted by the Woodbury Chamber of Commerce. Live entertainment, a kids area, vehicle fair and food will also be available.

When: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 5

Where: Woodbury High School, 2665 Woodlane Drive

Cost: Free admission.

Info: Visit members.woodburychamber.org/events for more details.

Kelvin Yeboah’s first thought included skepticism.

The Italian/Ghanian striker joined Minnesota United last summer and was plugged in as the lone man atop the Loons’ attack. His first foray into MLS started off swimmingly with seven goals in 709 regular-season minutes.

But this season, head coach Eric Ramsay and the coaching staff wanted MNUFC to switch to a two-striker formation: with Yeboah playing alongside Canadian forward Tani Oluwaseyi.

“In the beginning, for sure, you are thinking, ‘Why change?’ ” Yeboah told the Pioneer Press this week. “And it’s a bit difficult to adapt to new changes, but eventually it all worked. We trusted (Ramsay) from Day 1, and we keep trusting him until now. So I think he’s doing really a good job.”

The switch has worked out for all parties. While opposing center backs have two strikers to worry about and account for on the field, Yeboah and Oluwaseyi have scored four goals each to tie for the fourth-most tallies in MLS through six games. Their production has boosted MNUFC (3-1-2) into fourth place in the Western Conference going into Sunday’s game against New York City FC (2-2-2) at Yankee Stadium.

“I feel like those two, if they needed convincing of the argument of playing as a pair, there’s enough evidence over six games to suggest that we can do really, really well,” Ramsay said.

Minnesota United forward Kelvin Yeboah (9) head the ball over Real Salt Lake midfielder Emeka Eneli (14) in the first half of a MLS game at Allianz Field in St. Paul on Saturday, March. 29, 2025. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)

Stumbles before big stage

Ramsay and Yeboah are quite alright over MNUFC’s strike partners not getting much praise for their early-season goal scoring successes.

“We’re quite happy with that, by the way; I think that suits us to an extent,” Ramsay said. “But also feel like that’s self inflicted, because if we had won one of the two games that we most definitely should have done against Kansas (City) and (L.A.) Galaxy, we would be, obviously, in a more eye-catching position.”

After losing leads in both those matches, MNUFC beat Real Salt Lake behind two goals from Oluwaseyi. The Loons will now go to New York, followed by Toronto next Saturday.

“Don’t really care,” Yeboah said about the lack of attention. “But yes, I do think we are a surprise for MLS. I think we are still considered a surprise, Minnesota United, in itself. The results speak for themselves, you know. So we are really keeping our head down and just keep working.”

Still a work in progress

Ramsay said the team reviewed the two-striker set-up before Thursday’s training session as it seeks more areas for improvement.

“The biggest message, both in and out of possession, for those (two) is that they stay close enough to one another,” Ramsay said. “And I think in order to get the benefit of one another’s movement and the benefit of each other’s physicality, they need to be close. And I think largely we’ve seen that over the course of most games. There are certain points in certain games where we start to drift a little bit from from one another.”

During small-sided drills and scrimmage situations in training sessions, the Loons’ starters are often broken up into different teams to find a competitive balance between the groups. On Thursday, Yeboah and Oluwaseyi remained together to further deepen their chemistry.

Oluwaseyi had back-to-back scoring chances early against RSL last Saturday, but didn’t convert. In the past, he said he would have dwelled on those missed opportunities, and people in his circle would have been reminding him to let it go.

“I’m just trying to … shout out to Ted Lasso, ‘Just be a goldfish,’ ” Oluwaseyi said about how the Apple TV show instilled the need for soccer players to have a short memory. “Just keep things in perspective and just forget everything that happens in the past and just keep going.”

Split scoring

All four of Oluwaseyi’s goals have come in open play or on counter-attacks, while three of Yeboah’s goals have derived from set plays and one on a penalty kick.

“There is an element on set plays (where) Kelvin, within the set-up, is in a better position to score than Tani,” Ramsay explained. “Tani is more likely to assist in those situations. I’d say there’s something in that.”

Oluwasseyi assisted on Yeboah’s (and the Loons’) first goal of the season, a tap-in off a corner kick in the 1-0 win over Montreal on March 1.

“I would also say in open play, Kelvin’s had some some good chances,” Ramsay said. “He’s yet to, sort of, set the world on fire when it comes to really eye-catching goals in the way that he did last year. But I think almost more pleasing for me and the staff is that he’s probably learned the value of a messy goal on a set play.”

Yeboah is looking to hone in on his natural instinct over where the ball is going to end up in sequences. When Galaxy goalkeeper John McCarthy failed to grab an attempt two weeks ago, Yeboah was there to poke it into the back of the net.

“You can never know,” Yeboah said. “So it’s always a bit of a gamble. But I’ve been gambling well in that sense.”

Competition?

Putting two ultra-competitive strikers on the field together might have led to them contrasting or combusting. But that hasn’t been the case.

Oluwaseyi said he made a joke about competing against Yeboah in practice, and Yeboah replied: “Don’t compete against me, compete against yourself.”

How Zen of Yeboah.

“As strikers, you have the edge always to compare because of numbers, because of whatsoever,” Yeboah said. “… Results are dictated by so many factors. So if you compete with yourself, you have a better chance to improve.”

Yeboah brought up how both players have different attributes. One example: Yeboah’s four goals have come with his preferred right foot, while Oluwaseyi has scored three with his favored left foot, and one with his head.

Just off the pace

Yeboah and Oluwaseyi’s goal totals are both within the Top 5 in MLS through six matches this season.

Top MLS goal-scorers in 2025:

1. Tai Baribo, Philadelphia, 6
2t. Hugo Cuypers, Chicago, 5
Emmanuel Latte Lath, Atlanta, 5
4t. Yeboah, 4
Oluwaseyi, 4
Christian Benteke, D.C., 4
Diego Rossi, Columbus, 4
Antony, Portland, 4
Evander, Cincinnati, 4
Alonso Martinez, New York City, 4
Martin Ojeda, Orlando City, 4
Marco Pasalic, Orlando City, 4

(Note: Only MNUFC and Orlando City have two players on the list, while Sunday’s opponent is represented with one.)

Little company

The Loons have had only one of the club’s annual leading scorers rank in the MLS Top 10 that season — and it came in the pandemic-shortened season in 2020:

Top MNUFC goal-scorers since 2017, with MLS rank:

2025 — T-4: Tani Oluwaseyi/Kelvin Yeboah, 4 goals
2024 — T-27: Bongi Hlongwane, 11 goals
2023 — T-21: Teemu Pukki, 10 goals
2022 — T-22: Emanuel Reynoso, 10 goals
2021 — T-27: Robin Lod, 9 goals
2020* — T-8: Kevin Molino, 9 goals
2019 — T-27: Darwin Quintero, 10 goals
2018 — T-22: Quintero, 11 goals
2017 — T-11: Christian Ramirez, 14 goals

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By FATIMA HUSSEIN and CHRIS MEGERIAN

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Two days after sending the global economy reeling by announcing tariffs on foreign imports, President Donald Trump insisted his trade policies will never change as he remained ensconced in a bubble of wealth and power in Florida.

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He woke up on Friday morning at Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Palm Beach, and headed to his nearby golf course a few miles away after writing on social media that “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO GET RICH.”

Several supporters stood across the street as Trump, wearing his signature red campaign hat and white polo shirt, glided down a street lined with palm trees. They waved to him and he waved back, part of a ritual that plays out every weekend that he’s in town.

The Republican president was not expected to appear publicly, although he’s scheduled to attend a candlelit dinner for MAGA Inc., an allied political organization, on Friday evening. He also spent Thursday in Miami at a different one of his golf courses, where he attended a Saudi-funded tournament. He landed in Marine One and was picked up in a golf cart driven by his son, Eric.

Trump has often proved impervious to the kind of scandals or gaffes that would damage another politician, but his decision to spend the weekend at his gilded properties could test Americans’ patience at a time when their retirement savings are evaporating along with the stock market. The tariffs are expected to increase prices by thousands of dollars per year and slow economic growth, and there are fears about a potential recession.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Friday that the tariffs were “significantly larger than expected” and are “highly likely” to cause more inflation — at least in the short term but possibly in the long term as well.

However, Trump has described his policies as a painful yet necessary step to encourage companies to relocate their operations to the United States, and he spent the morning defending himself on Truth Social, his social media platform, vowing he is sticking with his policies.

Although experts have harshly criticized Trump’s tariffs, he’s found support on TikTok. He shared a video that said “Trump is crashing the stock market” and “he’s doing it on purpose” as part of “secret game he’s playing, and it could make you rich.”

The goal, the video said, is to push the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, something that Trump explicitly called for later in the morning.

“This would be a PERFECT time” for Powell to cut interest rates, he wrote. “CUT INTEREST RATES, JEROME, AND STOP PLAYING POLITICS!”

With foreign leaders scrambling in response to Trump’s announcement this week, the president lashed out and looked to cut deals.

He said he spoke with Vietnamese leader To Lam and claimed Vietnam wants to eliminate its tariffs on U.S. goods if it can make a deal with the U.S.

He also criticized China for announcing its own tariffs on U.S. imports.

“CHINA PLAYED IT WRONG, THEY PANICKED – THE ONE THING THEY CANNOT AFFORD TO DO!” he wrote.

Trump also celebrated a new report showing the U.S. added 228,000 jobs in March, beating expectations. Although the numbers were a snapshot of the economy before the tariff announcement, Trump claimed vindication, saying they already show his moves are working. “HANG TOUGH,” he wrote. “WE CAN’T LOSE!!!”

Megerian reported from Washington.

A man recently living in St. Paul is among three people federally indicted in connection to the homicide of a man in Florida, which prosecutors announced Friday was related to the MS-13 gang.

The FBI arrested Hugo Adiel Bermudez-Martinez, 30, on March 12 at a residence in St. Paul’s Dayton’s Bluff where he was living with his family. He is charged with murder in aid of racketeering activity.

U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi spoke at a press conference in Florida on Friday, saying: “Let this be a lesson: no matter how long it takes, we will never give up in our pursuit of justice.”

Hugo Adiel Bermudez-Martinez (Courtesy of the Sherburne County Sheriff’s Office)

A stepdaughter of Bermudez-Martinez said Friday that he is innocent. She described him as a hard-working man.

On May 3, 2015, the body of a 22-year-old man was found in a vacant lot in Palm Beach, Fla. He’d been stabbed repeatedly in the face, neck, torso and groin, and also shot in the head, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Florida.

Law enforcement linked that man’s killing to January and October 2015 murders in Oakland Park, Fla., along with a body found in a makeshift grave in May 2021, also in Oakland Park. Investigators “pieced together evidence showing that MS-13 was responsible for the four homicides,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a statement.

Six people were federally charged in July 2022 and have been convicted of murder in aid of racketeering activity. One of the men, Andy Tovar aka “Fearless,” was described by federal prosecutors as an MS-13 gang leader who approved of the murder of one victim and participated in the Palm Beach murder by shooting the victim in the eye. He’s been sentenced to life in prison.

Another man, Wilson Tirado-Silva aka “Sombra,” “was a local MS-13 leader responsible for growing the gang in South Florida,” the statement from federal prosecutors said. “He took MS-13 recruits on kills as part of gang initiation.” Two other men “committed the murders to gain gang membership credit.”

Last month, three more people — including Bermudez-Martinez, aka “Blue” — were charged in connection to the 2015 Palm Beach killing. They are all in federal custody. The mandatory minimum sentence for the three men, if convicted, is life in prison.

An attorney for Bermudez-Martinez wasn’t listed in the Florida federal court file as of Friday morning. Bermudez-Martinez has been in custody since his arrest and has appeared in federal court in Minnesota about being transferred to Florida; the attorney who represented him in court couldn’t immediately be reached for comment Friday morning.

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