Front line Covid era workers: Their stories – their confessions – are honest, revealing, emotional and very personal.
Author: Jeff Strate
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).
Visitors to Museum Louvre It or Leave It on Valley View Road, will likely imagine that they’ve just stepped into an art gallery in Paris or Beverly Hills.
The result – a regional trail that won’t crumble into a creek and … a happier creek.
Like bottom feeding carp, goldfish stir-up lake beds and uproot plants.
The haunted night calls of barred owls in the Summerhill Drive neighborhood were joined early Friday evening, Oct. 29, by costumed kids and their parents. Halloween falls on Sunday this year, but the families on this north-central Eden Prairie street were not waiting. They called their block party a “Neighborhood Halloween Bash.” It was. Out came the potluck dishes, the pizzas, the soda, the treats, the games, the chats and the kids. Temporary traffic barriers, a portable fire pit and food tables were set up on the street. An Eden Prairie Local News photographer walking on Summerhill Drive at about…
The steaming asphalt is a sign that two years of orange and white traffic barrels along one of Eden Prairie’s busiest arteries may slowly disappear in November.
Eden Prairie’s signature water tower overlooks a radically changed landscape noticed only, perhaps, by the residents and businesses along Eden Road and Singletree Lane. The transformation has been hidden behind Bachman’s, Bowlero, residential complexes, Costco and Emerson. Where three years ago a neglected ridge of buckthorn, brush and weeds stretched east to west, now, light rail track alignments, a nearly completed passenger station and a four-lane, paved street are laid out. Branded as “Town Center Place,” the new street begins where Eden Road elbows to the south at Redstone American Grill. The pavement heads west to Eden Prairie Town Center…
Eden Prairie’s hike and bike trails become embraced by spectacular autumn canvases each October. As October cedes to November and Thanksgiving, the blazes become less bold but more nuanced and informing — more interesting. Hidden ponds, creeks, neighborhoods and vistas re-appear as leaves fall. We can drop “Prairie” from our town’s name and just go with “Eden.” Every one of our neighborhoods is supplied with welcoming trails and walkways. The following small list of trails is not intended to be an arbitrary ranking; it is a reminder for the car-bound among us to take a hike or ride a bike…
Southwest Light Rail project work sites remain busy.