Month: January 2017

Chaska/Chanhassen has won nine games in a row, outscoring opponents 47-10 in the stretch.

Trailing twice in the third period, Chaska scored three times, earning a 5-5 draw with St. Louis Park Tuesday.

Holy Family Catholic scored six times in the first period, leading 9-0 at one point, in a 10-1 home win over Litchfield/Dassel-Cokato Tuesday.

Chaska girls basketball won its third straight game, defeating host Richfield 75-41 Tuesday.

After 31 years behind the microphone courtside at Williams Arena, this will mark the final season for University of Minnesota men’s basketball public address announcer Dick Jonckowski of Shakopee.

The Chaska High School Speech Team competed in Eden Prairie Saturday. The team took 4th place overall, with 18 finalists, including seven novice (1st year) competitors.

Three local Chaska High School seniors from Boy Scout Troop 589 — Jonathan Early, Conner Kujak and Jacob Meier — were presented with the Eagle Scout Award, scouting’s highest rank, on Jan. 22.

The Guardian Angels Youth Leadership Team and Guardian Angels School students recently created fleece blankets to donate to hospitalized children.

Are you interested in reading the public notices published in the January 26, 2017 print edition of the Chaska Herald newspaper? The page or pages on which those notices were printed are attached to this item, in the form of…

Feb. 2, 1922: A bunch of our young fellows, 8th graders, went to Carver Sunday afternoon and defeated the Carver lads at basket ball. We understand the score was 18 to 5 in favor of Chaska. The Chaska boys showed…

The correct answer to last week’s quiz was the east skating rink in Lions Park, off of Ravoux Road.

Jeff and B.J. Perkins of Eden Prairie and their friends came to the city of Carver on Saturday to play in the eighth annual Soggy Bottom Open snow golf fundraising event.

Jeff and B.J. Perkins of Eden Prairie and their friends came to the city of Carver on Saturday to play in the eighth annual Soggy Bottom Open snow golf fundraising event.

Grace Church launches Grace Church Chaska with a grand opening on March 5 at Oak Ridge Hotel & Conference Center.

Local legislators are speaking out against President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, calling the order “poorly implemented” and “disgraceful.”

The Minnesota Park and Recreation Association (MPRA) presented the Chaska Parks and Recreation Department the Tommy Johnson award for the top project of 2016 for Firemen’s Park. The award was presented Jan. 9, according to a press release.

A series of free gardening classes offered by the Carver-Scott Extension Master Gardeners will teach participants about seed starting, vegetable gardening, growing herbs or perennials, making a garden eco-friendly, adding shrubs to a landscape and other gardening topics.

The 12th annual book festival “Hooked on Books … and the Arts, Too!” is Saturday, Feb. 11.

The City Council and Planning Commission will be reviewing a Concept Plan for another new neighborhood in Carver. A Concept Plan has been submitted by Trinity Development, partnering with M/I Homes (known by many as Hans Hagen), for the development of 147 homes, on approximately 50 acres, just east of the Spring Creek housing development on Spring Creek Drive.  The Planning Commission will be reviewing the Concept Plan at their meeting on Thursday, February 16 at 6:30 pm at the Church By The River.  For more information on this project please click here.

Crashes were seen about 8:30 a.m. in the eastbound lane of Highway 212 near the border of Chanhassen and Chaska as well as on the Highway 41 bridge over Highway 212 in the northbound lanes.