E DEN P RAIRIE ✹ D ECEMBER 30, 2010
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Vol. 45, No. 52
In the Community, With the Community, For the Community
EPHS girls edge Blaine in overtime PAGE 24
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Eden Prairie School Board will consider more options
Lifelong city resident pens her fifth book on EP history
Choice pilot programs, K-5 model remain up for more discussion
BY PAUL GROESSEL • SUN NEWSPAPERS
BY PAUL GROESSEL • SUN NEWSPAPERS The Eden Prairie School Board has approved an administrative report, which reaffirmed the February decision to transition to K-6 elementary schools from the current K-4 model. That decision came Dec. 21, after almost a year of administrative planning for the K-6 change, and after months of input from the community regarding the K-6 process and a proposed elementary school boundary map that would change where an estimated 1,100 students attend school. Since February some have petitioned and requested the School Board review other options for K-6, and since October many have asked for choice school or curriculum options. After the Dec. 21 vote, the School Board not only voted (4-3) to have the administration look into choice school options, but it also considered looking into a K-5 option while the district transitions to the K-6 model.
Members of the Sand Creek Baptist Church Youth group took a day trip to the Staring Lake sledding hill on a windy, sunny Monday. (Photo by Paul Groessel • Sun Newspapers)
Snow, cold arrive before season officially begins BY CHRIS DILLMANN • SUN NEWSPAPERS
W
ith winter only a little more than a week old, it’s already the snowiest season for the Twin Cities in two decades. This December also has set the record for the most snow.
With more than 34 inches at the Chanhassen National Weather Service reporting station, this month broke the record set in 1969, according to the National Weather Service. More snow was in the forecast for Dec. 31. WINTER: TO PAGE 16
Marie Wittenberg of Eden Prairie has come out with her fifth book about the city’s history. “Eden Prairie: A Brief History” was released this month and features the places and people that have come, gone and stayed since Native Americans were stewards of its land before the 1850s. Specifically, Marie Wittenberg the places include stores, post offices, city property, churches, homes, schools and libraries. The people include influential and prominent families, organizations and sports teams. “These things were just dropped in my lap,” Wittenberg said of the material used to write the book. Wittenberg acted as the Eden Prairie Historical Society president for 15 years. She took it over after longtime president and Historical Society founder Helen Anderson departed for Florida, Wittenberg said. HISTORY: TO PAGE 14
SCHOOLS: TO PAGE 21
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