Eden Prairie residents can haul their no longer usable stuff to the city’s yard waste site and leave without it at a Sept. 11 city-sponsored event. Ninety-eight percent of the junk will be recycled, according to Certified Recycling, the vendor that is partnering with the city. When and where?The Fall Recycling Drop-Off is Saturday, Sept. 11 from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. The yard waste site is located at 9811 Flying Cloud Drive. Drop-off traffic must enter the site from northbound Flying Cloud Drive. Bring proof of your Eden Prairie residency in the form of a driver’s license, utility bill…
Author: Jeff Strate
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Jeff Strate
An Eden Prairie resident since 1994, Jeff has served as an organizer for local open-space initiatives and get-out-the-vote parks referenda. He has also served on the Eden Prairie Human Rights and Diversity Commission, conservation area task forces, the Southwest Light Rail Community Advisory Committee and the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Land Trust. Jeff studied journalism and mass communication at the U of MN and has been a producer/writer and occasional on-camera figure in the Twin Cities, New York, Boston, and Trenton. Jeff has written for websites and magazines and has produced award-winning access programing through Southwest Community Television (SWTV).
Orange and white traffic barrels on Valley View Road near the regional bike trail bridge that were installed in February should be gone in October. They were there in April and remain on guard in September. The barrels keep east-bound drivers from using Valley View’s right lane from Edenvale Boulevard to about 30 yards beyond the bridge. The sidewalk is also closed. The grassy and bushy area between the sidewalk and Purgatory Creek has been colonized by backhoes, compressors and work crews. They’ve scraped and moved a lot of soil on both sides of what has been named the Minnesota…
Weather permitting, Monday begins one of the busiest light rail construction weeks in months …
Weather permitting, construction crews will pour concrete on the light-rail span built over Nine Mile Creek and Flying Cloud Drive on Friday, Aug. 27. Flying Cloud Drive will be closed from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. between the Flying Cloud Dog Park and the Performing Institute of Minnesota Arts High School (PIM). According to a project construction bulletin, detour signs will be posted in the area. The south access to the high school via Valley View Road and Flying Cloud Drive will remain open. If the rain continues on Friday, work will be completed from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m.…
The Met Council says $1.5 billion of investments have been stimulated by the SWLRT project.
The summer’s second escorted tour of one of Southwest Light Rail’s largest construction zones, the bus/LRT station itself and the train bridge over Prairie Center Drive, is now taking reservations. The tour is set for Saturday, August 28, from 10:00 a.m. to noon.
Orange and white traffic barrels and “RAMP CLOSED” signs have been shoe-horned along the entire 14.5-mile alignment of the future Green Line Extension light rail trains. Here’s what to expect to and from our local cul-de-sac havens and work, dining, parks, business and shopping districts. EDEN PRAIRIE Prairie Center Drive. Expect southbound and northbound lane closures from Technology Drive to Singletree Lane through July. Crews will be advancing bridge work and laying tracks.. I-494 / Flying Cloud Drive Area. I-494 off-ramp to Flying Cloud Drive is closed through the construction season.. I-494 on-ramp from Flying Cloud Drive is open to…
Interested in taking your TikTok video to the next level? Eden Prairie teens have an opportunity to learn how to record and edit videos on their remote devices – free – for TikTok and beyond, from a TV production pro in August. This summer, Bloomington Community Access Television (BCAT) and Southwest Community Television (SWTV) are partnering for the third time to help teenagers begin making polished looking and sounding videos … with their phones. “The camp is going virtual this year. We have openings for our August camp,” says BCAT’s video director-instructor Ben Vinar. In previous years, “campers” have crafted…
EDEN PRAIRIE Earthwork and the construction of retaining walls along the southern reach of the light rail tunnel under Highway 62 continues, according to a a Southwest Light Rail Transit (SWLRT) July 9 press release. The tunnel connects the City West Station in Eden Prairie to the approach to the Opus Station in Minnetonka. Prairie Center Drive, from Technology Drive to Singletree Lane: Ongoing bridge work will prompt Southbound and northbound lane closures through July. The I-494 (west) off-ramp to Flying Cloud Drive is closed for the 2021 construction season. The I-494 (east) on-ramp from Flying Cloud Drive is expected…
At Menard’s on Saturday, the garden supply section is the size of Vermont. Inside are folks in need of dirt therapy. One desperate gent pushes a cart filled with sod rolls.