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Eden Prairie resident Nan Vest had known one of her closest friends for more than 50 years. After the friend was diagnosed with dementia, Vest wasn’t sure how to talk with her.
“I didn’t have a clue,” Vest said. “I didn’t even know how to carry on a conversation.”
The experience led Vest and Karlyn Beil, director of sales and marketing at Summit Place, an Eden P...
Installation of community solar gardens is steadily increasing across Minnesota, from Zumbrota to Duluth. Rows of solar panels, known as solar arrays, are placed on rooftops or in large fields to generate electricity. The panels convert sunlight into electricity that is sent to the grid and distributed to utility customers.
Solar gardens are owned and operated by devel...
I am Matt Hauwiller, and I proudly support Mari Verdugo for Eden Prairie School Board.
As someone born and raised in the Twin Cities, I know the importance of our school system. After my undergraduate degree at the University of Minnesota, I went out to the University of California, Berkeley, for a Ph.D. in chemistry. I met Mari there while she was studying engineerin...
There are some birds that seem almost too improbable to be real. The American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) is one of them. With a wingspan stretching nearly 9 feet and a bill so absurdly oversized, this is a bird that is hard to confuse with anything else.
Yet, despite their enormous size, white pelicans fly with astonishing grace. Flocks ...
Norbert Gernes, 88, died peacefully at home, holding hands with Pat, his wife of 53 years, on July 23, 2026.
Norbert grew up on a dairy farm in Winona, Minnesota, attending a one-room country school through eighth grade. After graduating from Cotter High School in 1955, he attended Saint Paul Seminary and was ordained in 1963. He later earned a master’s degree in couns...