Chanhassen Dinner Theatres is back with a brand-new main stage show.
Carver-on-the-Minnesota is planting an evergreen tree in Gazebo Park at 11:30 a.m., Friday, Sept. 25.
Guardian Angels Catholic Church has planned a cookout and car show on Saturday, Sept. 26.
I have written about mile-markers in life several times. It is a term every biker understands because for each mile on a bike trail there is a new mile-marker. You usually start with zero and go to one, then two, and on and on. On the Cannon Valley Trail there are 18 mile-markers and on the …
Eighteen votes cast, six yay responses, Minnesota high school football in the fall of 2020 was postponed by the Minnesota State High School League Board of Directors Aug. 4.
With four runners in the top 10, including champion Maya Mor, Minnetonka girls cross country captured the Lake Conference Jamboree at Round Lake Park in Eden Prairie Sept. 18.
A rematch of the 2018 and 2019 Class AA State Championship, top-ranked Minnetonka showed their dominance, defeating Edina by a 7-0 score on Sept. 17 in the only meeting of the season.
Coming off a pair of losses, Thursday's home contest with St. Louis Park was a much-needed opportunity to turn the momentum back in Chanhassen's favor into a key stretch next week.
Twelve goals on the season, seven in the last three matches, Bishop Schugel is on fire for the Holy Family Catholic boys soccer team.
Constitution Day, sometimes known as “Citizenship Day," is coming up. It started as “I am an American” Day in 1940, then the date was changed to correspond with the anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787.
I urge your readers to vote to re-elect Randy Maluchnik as a Carver County commissioner. I have known Randy for many years. We first served together on the Chaska City Council, where I served from 1978 through 2008.
I am voting for Julia Coleman in the District 47 race for the Minnesota State Senate. The only candidate in this race with elected experience, Julia Coleman has already made a positive impact in Carver County while serving on the Chanhassen City Council.
While the presidential election is getting the bulk of public attention, and it is important, I’d like to highlight an overlooked, but still very important election in Minnesota Senate District 47.
I am a veteran, most recently serving for a year on a U.S. Navy base in Djibouti, Africa.
In the run-up to the primary election last month, Republican candidate for the Minnesota senate, Julia Coleman, put out a postcard touting herself as the candidate who could "keep Carver County red.”
The Veterans of Foreign Wars a fraternal organization, a nonprofit veterans service organization, a 501(c)(3), with an exclusive membership of only U.S. veterans of a conflict on foreign soil. Therefore, and according to our charter, since 1899, the VFW does not endorse any candidate for pub…
The fall season evokes memories of harvest on the farm and the wonderful smells wafting from my mom’s kitchen. Apple crisp, praline pumpkin date bread, pot roast meatloaf, beef stroganoff, butterscotch pie, and a family favorite, caramel bars.
Although 2020 has had its share of unwelcome surprises, the seasonal changes we experience as summer fades to autumn are wonderful gifts from Mother Nature. Cooler weather accompanied by colorful landscapes will soon be here for everyone to enjoy.
Major construction on Highway 101 continues, but the city is set to meet its November deadline for Phase 1.
On a late Wednesday afternoon at Canterbury Park, about the only things familiar to regular racing fans were the plastic cups of foaming beer, Paul Allen’s voice over the loudspeaker and the horses and their jockeys, ready to take their marks before the sounding of the gun.
Abby Gronholz saw the ache her sister Julia went through last spring, losing her senior softball season to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As the weather starts to turn in the fall, so do the colors of apples in Minnesota’s many orchards.
I (Boaz) am the outgoing, friendly, slightly dominate male kitten of my sibling group. I’ll be at the door when I hear my trusted person coming and complaining that she should hurry up and come see me. I play with anything I can move. I like window watching. My purr is quickly heard when I’m…
Carisa Kuntz couldn’t even finish her sentence without chuckling.
People from plenty of backgrounds call Carver County home, but some have more space on the pie chart than others.
District 112, in its transition to insource transportation operations, is working with SBC Public Finance to purchase 15 buses. The lease agreement will be for a term of eight years at 1.4% interest rate. The district will access its operating capital to make the annual lease payments.
Lights on, doors closed, learning engaged.
Changes in federal funding now allow Eastern Carver County Schools to offer breakfast and lunch to all students at no cost.
The 2019 soccer season was a trying 14-game campaign for the Chanhassen boys team. Their two wins came in a one-week stretch in early September, a nine-match winless streak to end the season.
Each week we publish a detail of a local landmark. The next week we identify the landmark. Do you know where the heck this is? Send us your guess.
It wasn't as easy as the season opener, but Chaska, coming off its first loss of the season, improved to 5-1 on the season with a 1-0 win over Bloomington Kennedy Sept. 15 in girls soccer.
Even though Steamboat Days festivities were canceled this year in Carver, Emily Gillespie wasn’t about to miss out on a chance to do “a little bit of celebrating."
Sept. 17, 1953: Between 500 and 600 square dancing fans are expected to watch and take part in the Folk and Square Dance Festival to be held this Sunday afternoon from 2:00 to 6:00 o’clock in the Valley Ballroom. There will be no admission charge and the public has been invited by the Chaska…
Nearly four hours long, Tuesday's Minnesota State High School League Board of Directors workshop produced little resolution in terms of a plan for the 2020-21 calendar.
Danielle Raabe was planning on a future in sports medicine when she attended Black Hill State University to play basketball.
After almost exactly two years, the Highway 169 and Highway 41/County Road 78 interchange has wrapped up construction.
A Chaska High School graduate convicted of criminal sexual conduct involving two women while attending the University of Minnesota in 2014 is moving back to Carver County this month.
Let this soak in. The state of Minnesota no longer has just one Division I university within its boundaries. Joining the University of Minnesota? The University of St. Thomas in St. Paul.
Edina and Minnetonka had quite the 2019 season together on the boys soccer field. A pair of 3-2 Hornet wins in the regular season was a prelude to a thrilling 2-0 Section 2AA final.
The correct answer to last week's quiz was the Chaska Skate Park at Chaska Community Park, next to Clover Ridge Elementary School.
The correct answer to last week’s quiz was UClick Studios on Lake Drive.
Jackson Allen dreamed about being a Gopher. He was so ready to join the University of Minnesota men’s tennis program that after winning a state singles championship at Shakopee High School in 2016, he enrolled early, bypassing his senior year.
Southwest Christian, led by three all-Minnesota River Conference runners, placed third overall in both the boys and girls league championship race Sept. 10 at Montgomery National Golf Club.
Chaska recorded the three fastest times in seven of 11 races, including the 200-yard medley relay, in a 98-25 win over Bloomington Kennedy on Sept. 10. It was the home opener for the Hawks (2-0) at Pioneer Ridge Middle School.
David Garcia tallied his seventh and eighth goals of the season, giving Chaska a 2-1 lead in the second half at Benilde-St. Margaret on Sept. 10.
Two unbeatens in the Metro West Conference, Benilde-St. Margaret showed early they are the team to beat, scoring twice in the first half, beating Chaska 3-0 on Sept. 10.
Same opponent, a few line-up changes, the same result on the scoreboard.
Pioneer Ridge Middle School pool had all the sounds you'd come to expect at a home opener swimming and diving meet.
Beyond the Yellow Ribbon of Chaska is a diverse group of citizens and community leaders uniting key areas within local communities to leverage existing support activities, build awareness and take action to recognize and support service members and military families.
David loved his friends. It’s not that he disliked his family, he just loved to get out of his noisy, cramped apartment to have fun. One school night, David stayed out late.
