Dakota County residents can review and comment on two greenway plans at two meetings hosted by county officials in January. The first meeting is Tuesday, Jan. 15 from 6–8 p.m. at the Lebanon Hills Regional Park Visitor Center, 860 Cliff Road, Eagan.
Lebanon Hills Regional Park is offering not one, but two, cross-country ski classes in January.
Follow Inver Grove Heights Patch on Twitter | Like us on Facebook | Sign up for our free newsletter Want to take up cross-country skiing, but afraid that you'll wind up face-first in a snowbank? Lebanon Hills Regional Park in Eagan is offering not one but two opportunities in January to learn how to cross-country ski. The first class is a beginner cross-country ski lesson for ages 15 and older scheduled from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Jan. 12. The class is $25 per person, and equipment is provided. Click here to view the park's event calendar and register for the course. The second course, scheduled from 10 a.m. to noon on Jan. 27, is geared for children ages 6-9 years old. Registration is $15 per person, and equipment is provided. Click here to …
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Dakota County residents can review and comment on two greenway plans at two meetings hosted by county officials in January.
Follow Inver Grove Heights Patch on Twitter | Like us on Facebook | Sign up for our free newsletter Editor's Note: The following is a press release from Dakota County. You can help shape the future of two greenway corridors in Dakota County—the Lake Marion-South Creek Greenway and the Mendota–Lebanon Hills Greenway—by attending an open house to review and comment on the plans. The open houses are part of the year-long master planning process for the two greenways. The open houses are scheduled Tuesday, Jan. 15 from 6–8 p.m. at the Lebanon Hills Regional Park Visitor Center, 860 Cliff Road, Eagan and Thursday, Jan. 24 from 6–8 p.m. at the Lakeville Water Treatment Facility, 18400 Ipava Ave., Lakeville. Review and provide feedback to the …
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Activities will likely include snowshoeing, hiking, sledding, s’mores at a bonfire and readings by a local storyteller, among other diversions.
Ring in 2013 at Lebanon Hills Regional Park's seventh annual family New Year's Eve Party. The party, scheduled from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Lebanon Hills Visitor Center in Eagan, is $10 per person at the door or $8 per person in advance. Children ages 5 and under are free. Activities include snowshoeing and hiking by candlelight; sledding on the lit sledding hill; s’mores at the bonfire; and readings by storyteller Roy Edward Power, magician Matt Dunn and live animals from Dakota Wild Animals. Participants can also welcome the New Year with a countdown and ball drop at 7:59 p.m. Hot concessions will be for sale and the snowshoe rental open. Bring your own sleds and ice skates. All ages are welcome. Click here for advanced registration.
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Looking for something to do this weekend? Here are a few ideas.
Inver Hills Theatre presents ‘The Shadow Box’ When: 7:30 pm, Friday and Saturday, Feb. 24 and 25, 7:30 pm Where: Inver Hills Community College, 2500 80th St E, Inver Grove Heights, MN What: “The Shadow Box” by Michael Christofer, winner of the 1977 Pulitzer Prize, tells the story of three very different families dealing with a terminal disease. The families are staying in separate cottages on the hospital grounds. There is Agnes and her mother Felicity, estranged by the latter’s dementia; Brian and Beverly, whose marital complications are made worse by Brian’s new lover; and Joe and Maggie, unready for the strain of Joe’s impending death and its effect on their teenager. Cost: $10 (adults), $5 (seniors and students) Tuskegee Airman …
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The public has gotten a chance to experience $1.3 million in improvements to Lebanon Hills Regional Park since the beginning of December. Have you been there?
The visitor center at Lebanon Hills Regional Park reopened about a month ago, after many improvements to the facility and surrounding park areas, including: The overhaul cost roughly $1.3 million, according to a report in the Star Tribune. Since Apple Valley Patch reported on the improvements in early December, members of the public have gotten to experience the upgrades through park activities, including the large New Year's Eve family gathering on Saturday. So, to those who've visited the park recently, tell us: Did you notice the improvements? What did you think of them? Leave a comment below with your thoughts. Read Apple Valley Patch's story and the Star Tribune's story for more on the upgrades.
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5:50 pm on Tuesday, January 3, 2012
I think....I haven't been there in awhile....and need to go back! more ›
Hiking, candlelit ice skating and bonfires were among the activities at 'Ring in 2012' at Lebanon Hills Regional Park in Eagan Saturday night.
Bill Klein
10:23 am on Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Greenways take away tax base from cities, the county, and school districts. Rules prohibit utilities from passing though thus you have to go around them unless they are already there. Same with roads. This adds great expense. The county purchases the rights to the use the land with our money. They will tell you that they are using deeds money which is in fact our money, and they use federal money… more ›