Sunfish anglers will need to closely check the 2021 Minnesota Fishing Regulations booklet and signs at water accesses for new limits that are now in effect on 94 state waters.
The Burnsville dance team's season came to a close March 6
The Prior Lake dance team's state streak came to end March 6.
In the next few days many of you will be receiving a ballot in the mail for Minnesota Electric Valley Co-op Board of Directors election. If you are an MVEC Co-op member, I encourage you to vote for Tom Wolf! Tom is a great steward of our co-op and he keeps a keen eye on cost and reliability …
The January/February edition of Smithsonian Magazine has a fascinating article about Joseph Hayne Rainey (“Meet Joseph Rainey, the first Black congressman,” Jan. 6). Rainey was the first African American to be seated in the United States House of Representatives and the first member of Congr…
In just a couple weeks, we will experience the vernal equinox — one of the two times in the year when the sun is exactly above the equator. Apart from this astronomical anomaly, though, the equinox is mostly known as the beginning of spring — a fresh beginning and the time to spruce things up.
This week, ballots arrive in the mail for Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative Board of Directors. MVEC is governed by nine member-owners who serve as the cooperative's board of directors.
It’s been about a year since COVID-19 reached our communities.
Ashley George has done it again for the Prior Lake girls Alpine ski team
Forrest Bowan is back on the state slopes for the second time in three years.
Authorities charged a 19-year-old Minneapolis man with attempted murder Thursday after an alleged robbery and beating at the Quality Inn in Savage left a man with severe injuries over the weekend.
A local robotics team will construct a permanent obstacle course along the trails at Hidden Valley Park this year.
David Bedford has been "saving the world from mediocre apples" for 40-plus years.
Minnesota health officials identified the state’s first case of COVID-19 one year ago this week.
The Savage Police Department responded to and provided summaries for the following incidents Feb. 22 to March 1. The Savage Pacer doesn’t include a comprehensive list of calls to which the department responded. Incidents are included here based on severity, impact on public safety or other factors.
The Scott County and Carver County jails were recently subject to a biennial inspection performed by the Minnesota Department of Corrections, according to inspection reports published earlier this year.
The Prior Lake boys Nordic ski team's dominance in Section 1 continued March 2.
Kaelyn Ambuehl will be representing the Burnsville Nordic ski teams at state.
One person sustained serious injuries during an unspecified incident at the Quality Inn over the weekend, authorities confirmed.
It’s been a different season for the Prior Lake boys basketball team.
Interested in learning more about monarch butterflies? Come to Monarch Hour with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), a Facebook Live event hosted by Minnesota Valley Refuge Friends.
The Science Museum of Minnesota has reopened with friendly reminders for visitors to stay a Golden Eagle's wingspan apart.
Editor's note: Dr. Karissa L. Niehoff is an executive director of the National Federation of State High School Associations.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources reminds anglers that the deadline to remove fish houses from Minnesota lakes is here.
As a child of the 1970s, I remember road trips riding in the third row of our Buick station wagon looking out the open back window. I also remember the smell of exhaust, headaches and car sickness from those rides. Riding in school buses caused similar feelings of car sickness.
The last year has been incredibly challenging between the COVID crisis and the political tension that has overshadowed our lives. I questioned whether kindness was disappearing. Well, the experience I had last week changed that thought.
Following updates to the state's Safe Learning Plan last week, plans are underway for Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools secondary students to transition to an in-person learning model, according to an email from Superintendent Teri Staloch sent to staff and families Feb. 23.
Did you think that we would still be in the pandemic, one year later? I know I did not. In fact, I remember, sitting with my girlfriend last March, spaced six feet apart in my driveway as we remarked that if we had to do this for a couple of months, it would not be so bad. But here we are on…
Human-caused global climate change is one of the most complex issues facing society today. It is a global problem felt on local scales that cuts across many dimensions — science, economics, society, politics, and moral and ethical questions. It is here today, will be around for decades and c…
The great Arnold Palmer once said; "It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get."
The Savage Police Department responded to and provided summaries for the following incidents Feb. 15-22. The Savage Pacer doesn’t include a comprehensive list of calls to which the department responded. Incidents are included here based on severity, impact on public safety or other factors.
The bison turned quickly, ready to charge. The two feet of snow didn’t slow its powerful hooves, but rather kicked up a rooster-tail of shiny ice crystals into the cold winter air, highlighting the bison’s efforts.
The bison turned quickly, ready to charge. The two feet of snow didn’t slow its powerful hooves, but rather kicked up a rooster-tail of shiny ice crystals into the cold winter air, highlighting the bison’s efforts.
Credit River, Scott County’s upcoming new city, has contracted with the Scott County Sheriff’s Office to provide law enforcement services to its nearly 6,000 residents, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office.
Savage’s municipal liquor business thrived in 2020, and local residents could soon reap the benefits.
Teachers in the Burnsville-Eagan-Savage District are raising support for a colleague amid her husband's second cancer diagnosis.
Chef and television star Guy Fieri's virtual restaurant chain, Flavortown Kitchen, is now open in Minnesota.
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Taylor Koenen of Savage has taken her game to another level.
Local artist Greg Preslicka’s artwork can be found lining the interior of the Shakopee community pool, welcoming visitors to downtown Prior Lake, on the walls of the Savage Library and soon in the pages of those books.
We’ve all seen the headlines about the electrical grid failure in Texas, where about 90% of their energy comes from burning fossil fuels. Did you know we have similar systems here in Minnesota that may not be as resilient as we will need in the rapidly changing climate of our future?
The Prior Lake football team has won a lot of games over the last 13 years, including earning four berths into the Class 6A state tournament since 2011.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced Monday that Hy-Vee will be added to the expanding network of pharmacies vaccinating residents across the state, according to a news release from the governor’s office.
"Attention media: You're gonna want to hear the segment on state tournament coverage ..."
Maybe it was Amanda Gorman speaking her poem, “The Hill We Climb” at the inauguration last month, or maybe it’s the bitter cold and stark white of a Minnesota winter, but I find myself yearning for beauty among my truths. In his poem, “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” John Keats first penned the lines:
I am writing a response to the Feb. 13 Prior Lake American article “Snow Problem: Prior Lake Pickleballers Play Despite Winter Weather."
At last, some good news: we seem to be slowly crawling our way out of the pandemic. Even with new variant strains, our community rates are low, hospitalizations have decreased and fewer Americans are critically sick and dying. More of us are vaccinated every day as supply increases. Schools,…
Of course, it was on a below-zero morning during our long arctic blast that the zipper broke on my parka. This was not just any parka; this was the perfect parka.
Students are at the center of all decisions made at Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools and there is much to celebrate in our district. This is also the time of year when school districts work to determine the budget for the coming school year. As always, PLSAS strives to be fiscally responsible …
Eighty-three-year-old Nancy Harrison has ventured outside the one-bedroom apartment she shares with her son in Chaska precisely four times since March 14 of last year.
