The following video of the EP Eagles 2008 State Dance Team Tournament performance is by "chanelist."

The following YouTube video, "Hansel and Gretel by EP Players," is by "dishaba." It features a summer 2007 performance.

The following video by EPHSB shows the Eden Eden Prairie Eagle Marching Band at Champlin.

The following is on page 26 of this week's Eden Prairie News, in our "Looking back" section:

"The Nov. 13, 1975, issue of the Eden Prairie News reported that “Ring Road” would now be named “Schooner Boulevard.”
“Nobody on the City Council was pleased with the name ‘Ring Road,’ the partially completed major street which is planned to encircle an industrial-commercial complex at the highways 169-494 intersection.

I received a message this week from an online reader who found one of John Mallo's columns on our Web site about Eden Prairie's McClay family, which lost sons in the Civil War and World War I.

http://www.edenprairienews.com/news/looking-back/eden-prairie-s-mcclay-f...

http://www.edenprairienews.com/continuing-story-eden-prairie-s-mcclay-fa...

She said that she had been researching her family history at www.myfamily.com and another family member had posted the article there.

The following is a video posted by "schoolofrockmn." It's titled "Eden Prairie School of Rock KISS Dress Rehearsal."

I didn't think we were going to get in at all, but we ended up "VIPs."I picked up Holly (who took the photo below) and we headed down 10th Street in St.

I received a copy of a news release touting the latest in State Fair foods, bacon dipped in chocolate.

Sign of the apocalypse or no, I will try this when we go to the State Fair on Saturday.

Are there any other decadent fair foods we can't miss? Have you tried these oddly named "Pig Lickers?"

The news release follows:

Do you get annoyed, as I do, when our gold-medal-winning athletes don't sing along to the National Anthem. They don't have to hit every high note, just mouth the words.

Couldn't they load the Star Spangled Banner onto the old iPod and give that a play every once in a while?

Is this a non-issue, not surprising or annoying. Vote in the poll by clicking the link below.

http://www.edenprairienews.com/when-gold-medal-athletes-dont-sing-along-...

Click here for Fire Chief George Esbensen's blog entry with video of the Eden Prairie Fire Department's Airport Crash Rescue truck and the fire it responded to on Eden Prairie Night Out Aug. 5.

http://edenprairieweblogs.org/georgeesbensen/post/568/