Jane Horn's Prior Lake gardens are featured on the "Better Homes and Gardens" Web site, the Internet home of the popular lifestyle magazine. The self-taught gardener offers tips on a range of issues, including plant choice and how to cultivate a luscious landscape.

The "Better Homes and Gardens" feature isn't the first time Horn, a Scott-Carver Master Gardener, has shared her yard space with the public. In July 2009 she hosted a public viewing of her garden, with proceeds going to support the Piper Breast Center at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis.

By Lori Carlson, Editor
For Terry Hitchcock, the last eight months have been a different kind of marathon – a nationwide whirlwind of film festival appearances and motivational speeches.

The Prior Lake man is the subject of “My Run,” a documentary that follows his 1996 trek – in which he ran 75 marathons in 75 days – from St. Paul to Atlanta, Ga.

Hitchcock, who was 57 at the time of the run, had lost his wife, Sue, to breast cancer a decade earlier and became a single father to three young children.

Prior Lake resident Brianna Larson, a seventh-grade student at Twin Oaks Middle School, packaged food at the Eagan headquarters of Feed My Starving Children, on Thursday, March 4. In just two hours, Larson and more than 50 of her peers packaged enough food to feed 68 children for an entire year. (Submitted photo)

By Chuck Friedbauer, Correspondent

CHASKA - The Eastern Carver County School Board narrowed the list of potential candidates for the superintendent position to two finalists.

Corey Lunn, superintendent of the Montgomery-Lonsdale School District and a former principal at Prior Lake High School, will be interviewed Monday, March 15; and James Bauck, superintendent of the Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose school district, will be interviewed Tuesday, March 16.

By Meryn Fluker, Staff Writer

For students in the Prior Lake-Savage Area School District, September brings new classmates, new teachers and even new classrooms. Last September also brought a new face to Twin Oaks Middle School in the form of Sheri Kuntz, the school’s new guidance/attendance secretary.

“I really enjoy students,” Kuntz said. “Each one is so unique, and they all have their own personalities.”

By Meryn Fluker, Staff Writer

Drew Barrymore, Carrie Fisher and Charlie Sheen all came from families filled with successful actors. While her parents aren’t necessarily movie stars, 13-year-old Tori Thibodeaux is another young thespian who’s joining in the family tradition.

Dakotah! Ice Center is now home to the Dakotah! Figure Skating Club (DSF). The Dakotah! Figure Skating Club is a non-profit organization.

Established in mid-2009, the club currently has about 40 skaters and member parents. Community children, youth, and adults who train as figure skaters formed the club with DSF figure skating coach Trudy Oltmanns, who is a skating coach at the Dakotah! Ice Center which opened in November 2008.

By Meryn Fluker, Staff Writer

Lauren Resh has big plans for Sunday. While many people are dreading the start of the work week and holding on to the weekend’s last hours, Lauren will be dancing on the Orchestra Hall stage with the Chieftains, a six-time Grammy Award-winning Irish music quartet.

Lauren will perform with seven of her peers from the Shamrock School of Irish Step Dance, where she has been taking classes for the last eight years.