Month: February 2016

Eastern Carver County Schools will close two hours early today, according to a District 112 alert.

The Chaska City Council made appointments to the city’s various commissions at Monday night’s meeting. Each of the city’s four commissions had between three and five open positions to fill. Commission

The correct answer to last week’s quiz was Lions Park, at 1300 Crosstown Boulevard, Chaska.

Snow is expected to reach the Twin Cities around noon today, according to a 7:30 a.m. update from the National Weather Service. (Read more…)

Jonathan Association’s Annual Meeting and Candidate Forum is 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. (Read more…) 16 at the Chaska City Council Chambers, 1 City Hall Plaza.

"With a ranking score of 10 … CHASKA!"

Falling by 16 points in the first meeting with fifth-ranked Lester Prairie/Holy Trinity Dec. 11, Southwest Christian held the visiting Bulldogs well below its season scoring average, falling 54-46 on

The Chaska Speech team competed in a tournament in Eden Prairie on Saturday, placing 3rd out of 26 teams. Team members netted 25 finals, with four individuals placing first in their respective categor

District 112’s 22nd annual Community Jazz Festival is Feb. 5-6.

The pedestrian bridge crossing Spring Creek in Carver for Carver County’s MN River Bluffs Regional Trail Extension Project will be delivered and assembled the week of February 15, 2016.  Prior to the bridge being delivered, the contractor will be assembling cranes on or about February 11, 2016, that will be needed to set the bridge.

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For the location of the bridge, please see the map below.

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Average retail gasoline prices in the Twin Cities have fallen 1 cent per gallon in the past week, averaging $1.63 per gallon yesterday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 1,106 gas outlets in the

Chaska ranked sixth on the SafeWise "20 Safest Cities in Minnesota" report.

Featuring six displays and 30 different cultivars, the “Timeless Beauty’’ orchid display will bring a tropical, exotic aura to the Arboretum’s Great Hall and the Snyder Building’s Meyer-Deats Conserva

A winter storm that appeared to be heading farther south so that it would miss the Twin Cities metropolitan area has changed course, and that means the area is in line for 4 to 8 inches of snow starti

The annual Carver County 4-H Tack Swap is 10 a.m.-2 p. (Read more…)m. Saturday, Feb. 6 at the Carver County Public Works Building, 11360 Highway 212 West, Cologne.

Tonight’s Chaska City Council agenda includes:

Are you interested in reading the public notices published in the January 28, 2016 print edition of the Chaska Herald newspaper? The page or pages on which those notices were printed are attached to t

On my recent trip to California to photograph bobcats (see my last column) I had a chance to fulfill a lifelong dream of seeing and photographing clusters of wintering monarch butterflies. We had chec

At their meeting tonight, the City Council will consider taking the first step in the redevelopment process for the recently acquired 920 6th St. W.  In short, the City Council will review a process that would start with the Planning Commission developing a “Request For Proposal” document to solicit projects for the approximately four (4) acre property. (Read more…)