Month: April 2016

Baseball season has officially begun. However, for kids with disabilities, the dream to play often remains a dream.

One day after Sarah Peka pitched Minnetonka Softball to a season opening victory over Mound-Westonka, younger sister Kristen Peka threw a four-hitter, leading the Skippers to a 6-2 win over Holy Famil

Chaska’s assistant city administrator has been hired as the new city manager in Wayzata. The Wayzata City Council voted Tuesday night to hire Jeffrey Dahl. He will begin his new job in mid-May. (Read more…)

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service issued a warning Wednesday that scammers may try using the April 18 tax deadline to prey on taxpayers by impersonating the IRS and others with fake phone call

Chaska Curling Center membership continues to grow, reaching 1,002 members, as of earlier this week.

It’s not every day that you get an invitation to the White House, and Chaska resident Kara Douglass Thom wasn’t about to pass up the opportunity.

With warmer weather right around the corner, officials with the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) and the Metropolitan Mosquito Control District (MMCD) are encouraging Minnesotans to remove from th

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? (Read more…) Send us your guess.

Are you interested in reading the public notices published in the April 7, 2016 print edition of the Chaska Herald newspaper? The page or pages on which those notices were printed are attached to this

Through three games, it’s opponents zero, Southwest Christian pitchers three.

On this date in history, the Herald reported:

Opening the season at Eden Prairie is never an easy task. For the Chaska Baseball team, that was the case on Tuesday.

A burglary was interrupted and a suspect identified this morning (April 12) with the help of a Carver County Sheriff’s Office police dog, according to news release.

Jeff Pierce, of Chaska, said District 112’s proposed changes to school boundaries and school start times would affect his family in multiple ways.

Early snow melt meant golf course openings in March. Windy and cold conditions in between, though, has meant for challenging practice time leading up to season openers.

The son of a man found beaten to death along with a woman in a Shakopee home who was a suspect in the killing is dead, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Shakopee police said.

Election judges (poll workers) are paid officials who staff local polling places, carry out election procedures, and make sure that the rights of voters are protected. During a general election, there are more than 30,000 election judges who staff more than 4,100 precincts. Serving as an election judge is a chance to learn about elections, and is a great service to the community. (Read more…)  If you are interested, please fill out the Election Judge Application below or contact Vicky Sons-Eiden, City Clerk, at 952-448-5353.

 

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Author Patrick Mader will discuss international athletes and his book "Minnesota Gold" at the Chanhassen Public Library at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 20. (Read more…)

Authorities are investigating the deaths of two people who were found at a residence on the 1100 block of Dakota Street in Shakopee with blunt-force injuries.

Groundwater serves a number of critical functions in Carver County. Perhaps most importantly, all drinking water in Carver County comes from groundwater sources. With a population forecast to grow fro