Contact information for Eden Prairie’s three watershed districts.
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).
The Metro Green Line Extension project has opened registration for the final round of its 2023 Green Line Extension construction site walking tours. Each tour will be guided by project staff who welcome questions about the station, bridge, crossing or tunnel being visited. The number of tour participants is limited. Priority will be given to registrants who have not yet been on a 2023 LRT project tour. Places are filling up. The two-hour tour of Eden Prairie’s City West Station happens on Saturday, Sept. 30, at 10 a.m. To register online, click or tap on here. Project staff will communicate…
Eden Prairie couple retake their yard from buckthorn thickets with gardens and wildflowers.
A Minnesota State Fair ribbon-winning home kitchen baker shares her secrets and recipes.
The Metro Green Line Extension project faces an estimated funding deficit of $240 million, which will be equally shared by Hennepin County and the Metropolitan Council. The project’s current estimated final cost is around $2.7 billion. Note: The Metro Green Line Extension project is also commonly referred to as Southwest Light Rail Transit (SWLRT). The Met Council announced in a Monday afternoon news release that the funds will be dedicated to the remaining capital and startup costs of the 14.5-mile line that will connect Eden Prairie, Minnetonka, Hopkins, St. Louis Park and downtown Minneapolis. Unanticipated constrution challenges and costs associated…
DeShaw and Hanninen were among the 1% of School of Rock’s 62,000 performance program students selected for this year’s AllStars tours.
John LeBlanc carries a handful of rooted garlic mustard plants as he directs the Central Middle School bus to park on a shady loop. Science teacher Jackie Campbell and her eighth graders disembark into a woodsy, rustic retreat from another era. Their end-of-school-year field trip would help restore native habitat along a nature trail at Camp Eden Wood in north-central Eden Prairie. It would also contribute to the sweat equity terms of a $21,500 Natural Resources Grant from Hennepin County. Some 20 Central Middle School students would pull garlic mustard from areas that had been cleared of common buckthorn. Garlic…
A critical evaluation of the Southwest Light Rail (SWLRT) project’s oversight of its major contractor was issued last week by the Office of the Legislative Auditor (OLA). The second of two reports slated for this year of the massive, delayed project holds that the Metropolitan Council “has not adequately enforced” aspects of key construction contracts, does not have adequate documentation to support some of its decisions, and did not provide sufficient mechanisms for the council to enforce those contracts. The 14.5-mile light rail line that will connect Eden Prairie, Minnetonka, Hopkins, St. Louis Park and Minneapolis was slated back in…
Eden Prairie Chamber of Commerce President Pat MulQueeny unzipped a black case shaped like a ukulele. A few steps in front of him, a breeze played with a polyester ribbon being unrolled for dignitaries to hold. They were lined up in the bright sun on the new bus loop at SouthWest Station. Wednesday, May 31, marked the ceremonial opening of the station’s passenger waiting room and bus loop. On May 1, SouthWest Transit commuters began boarding buses there to become the first to use any aspect of the massive Metro Green Line Extension Project. Light rail riders will begin sharing…
A Saturday morning breakfast of flapjacks drenched with maple syrup while seated beneath a full-size replica of the Spirit of St. Louis attracted aviation buffs from around the Twin Cities to a hangar at Flying Cloud Airport. Wings of the North (WOTN) runs four pancake breakfasts a year: one in the spring, one in the fall and two in midsummer. The July 22 and 23 breakfasts are part of AirExpo 2023. Billed as Minnesota’s premier aviation event, more than 30 vintage and modern aircraft and aviation heroes are expected to set down in Eden Prairie. Volunteer-driven, nonprofit Wings of the North…