After Glenn Olson saw how the invasive buckthorn was wreaking havoc on city-owned conservation areas, he decided to help. "I spent half my time on my own conservation area up north, so I haven't been...

When beginning work at the PROP Food Shelf in 2008, Janet Palmer learned something new about her longtime community. Eden Prairie is home to many big hearts. If their neighbors struggled,...

The Foundation for Eden Prairie Schools (FEPS) is accepting applications for both its community partnership grants and its teacher and staff grants through the month of October. “Our goal is to fund...

“There’s berry and then there is cranberry-apple,” explained a server to a woman customer. They were under one of the canvass canopies set up near the pavilion in Purgatory Creek Park. As the...

When life gave the country lemons, the Olympic Hills neighborhood made lemonade. Twenty years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Eden Prairie neighborhood continues to do so during its...

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,...

Though only a medium-sized town, Eden Prairie has a big-idea institution on Martin Drive. Founded in 1986, Pride Institute, 14400 Martin Drive, specializes in treatment of addiction in LGBTQ+ patients. Terri...

Calista Swensen’s garden is thriving in what seems like an improbable setting. Tucked away on the side of a large industrial building at 7550 Corporate Way in Eden Prairie, the 4,800-square-foot...

Cleaning out a closet? Upgrading an outfit? Outgrowing a garment? Donations of new and gently used coats and other winter gear (hats, mittens, gloves, snow pants) for all sizes and genders are welcome...

Stavya Arora, Morgan Cook, and Harini Senthilkumar wrote this article for Eden Prairie Local News (EPLN) as part of an internship provided by Vijay Dixit Chairman of the Shreya R. Dixit Memorial Foundation The...

As part of a subscription drive at the recent July 4, 2021 Independence Day event at Round Lake in Eden Prairie vistors to the Eden Prairie Local news (EPLN) booth had the opportunity to win prize. Contest...