Open Your Heart (OYH) to the Hungry and Homeless will match a portion of all financial gifts at PROP Food Shelf during July.  PROP’s goal is to raise $50,000 toward this matching opportunity. The...

Mark Weber during the EP Gives annual fundraising event in May organized by the Eden Prairie Community Foundation. It was Weber’s last as the Foundation’s executive director. He is retiring from that...

Priya Elayath, Deepak Ganapathy, and Spiwe Jefferson were elected as new members of the Eden Prairie Community Foundation’s board of directors on June 16, and Jay Lotthammer was elected board chair...

Mayor Ron Case (middle left) and Mark Weber, the retiring executive director of the Eden Prairie Community Foundation, hold a proclamation honoring Weber. He was given it during the June 14 City Council...

Eden Prairie Police Chief Matt Sackett (right) pats Detective Carter Staaf on the back while Staaf walks for a bit with Kitty Porta (left) and Margie Williamson (center) during Saturday’s Stop the Trafficking...

The ninth annual Stop the Trafficking 5K Walk/Run for Justice takes place at Purgatory Creek Park, 13001 Technology Drive, Eden Prairie, on Saturday morning, June 11.  Billed as Eden Prairie's...

Schooner Days rolled back into Eden Prairie this past weekend, providing fun for all ages. Activities at the three-day event, held from June 3-5, included carnival rides, games, bingo, food, and a...

Organizers of the first Schooner Days in 1964 had an ambitious motive for setting up the event, complete with a parade, skydiving, carnival rides and hootenanny music, in a pasture east of Flying Cloud...

It was June 29, 2007.  Spring had paved the way for summer, prompting nature enthusiasts to rush to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chaska. After hibernating for months during the...

“Democratic Visions,” a long-running community access TV series produced by Eden Prairie resident Jeff Strate and a handful of volunteers, has been honored by the Alliance for Community Media (ACM)...

The Hennepin County Board is recruiting volunteers for two vacancies on the Riley Purgatory Bluff-Creek Watershed District Board.  A member may not be a public officer of the county, state or...

“Paper or plastic?” What is your answer when you are asked this question at your local grocery store? If you answered “paper,” Eleanor Finne would be satisfied. If you said neither and handed...