After years of delays, it appears funding is in place to fix the traffic-clogged intersection of Highway 169 and Interstate 494. Reconstruction of the interchange will likely start in spring 2011.

Wednesday, the Met Council’s Transportation Advisory Board voted in favor of allowing the Minnesota Department of Transportation to use $34 million owed to TAB for improvements to 169/494. The money had been loaned to MnDOT for the Crosstown project.

Flood warnings have been announced throughout the metro.

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for an update on the river levels around Shakopee.

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Photo by Unsie Zuege

The Matsons of Chanhassen worked with Destiny Homes of Chanhassen to
remodel their kitchen. The challenge of their six-sided home made the remodel challenging but they love the results. A point of local
trivia--their home was once owned by Kevin Sorbo who starred in the
popular 1990s TV series "Hercules."

About 300 people jumped into Round Lake Saturday to raise funds for Special Olympics. All told, they brought in $55,500. Click below to see a slide show of the Polar Bear Plunge.

Using his line item veto, Gov. Tim Pawlenty trimmed $319 million from the nearly billion dollar bonding bill passed by the Legislature this week. Among the projects cut was a $10.5 million request to fund a project at both campuses of Hennepin Technical College, located in Eden Prairie and Brooklyn Park. According to HTC President Cecilia Cervantes, the project would renovate the resource centers at the campuses bringing together the library, assessment center, tutoring areas and other student services into one cohesive space.

In order to pay its bills this session, the state has turned to school districts to sustain a funding delay –in Eden Prairie’s case it’s a delay of $10.8 million in aid.

Imagine a situation where you’d receive your paychecks for March and April at the end of May. If you were in Eden Prairie’s position, you’d plan to cover the bills with credit, which is just what the School Board members allowed during last week’s School Board meeting. During that meeting, the board voted for a resolution that would allow the district to take out a line of credit with Associated Bank.

The Relay For Life of Eden Prairie committee invites the community to its 2010 Relay For Life Kickoff. The Kickoff will be held from 6:30 to 7:30p.m. on March 29 at St. Andrew Lutheran Church, 13600 Technology Drive.

The Google Fiber project is drawing out all manner of promotional antics from cities around the country in a bid to be the chosen site for a pilot project to test an ultra-high-speed broadband network. The enticement for cities is that such a project could offer their citizens Internet speeds 100 times faster than what they currently have access to.