Month: January 2017

Local legislators are back in St. Paul this week with the start of the 2017 legislative session.

Chaska, despite converting just three field goals in the first half, was within striking distance with 18 minutes to play.

The Task Force will meet in January, which is expected to be their last meeting on this issue. They will get cost and space options for several different scenarios. A local general contractor is also providing pricing for several repair options for Village Hall, which will also be presented to the Task Force in January. Finally, a financial analysis will be prepared to review the short and long-term fiscal impact of each choice. Staff will be getting direction from the City Council in late January or early February on how they want this information shared with the community, how the City Council would like to get feedback from residents, and what the decision-making process might look like.

Carver County commissioners met for their first meeting of 2017 on Tuesday to organize for the year ahead.

Ridgeview Medical Center’s first baby of the new year is Everett Cradick, born 1:55 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 1, weighing 6 pounds, 1 ounce and measuring 18 inches. He is welcomed by parents Jessica and Thomas Cradick of Mayer, Minn. Jessica…

MyPillow’s Better Business Bureau accreditation has been revoked, based on an advertising offer the BBB deemed continuous and confusing to customers.

Chaska and Rochester Lourdes were evenly matched in the third-place game of the U.S. Bank bracket of the Rochester Rotary Classic Dec. 30.

Five losses in seven games, a 3-5-2 record, Minnetonka needed a spark before the holiday break.

Jan. 5, 1899: The stock fair last Saturday was fairly well attended, although the day was very cold and the roads were bad. Farmers know that Chaska is the best market place in this part of the state, consequently our…

The correct answer to last week’s quiz was the entrance sign to QualiTech, at 318 Lake Hazeltine Drive.

A 58-year-old man from South St. Paul died in an apparent accidental fall into a grain bin at Rahr Malting Co. in Shakopee Monday night, according to Shakopee police.

Eight varsity wrestlers combined to score 39 1/2 team points, placing Chaska/Chanhassen 44th of 73 teams at the Rumble on the Red in Fargo, N.D. on Dec. 29-30.

When it’s all said and done, Chaska will face six of the seven other teams in Section 2-4A a combined eight times in the regular season.

Taking nearly 48 minutes for the first goal in the first meeting between Chaska and Minnehaha Academy Dec. 6, after one period in the second meeting Dec. 31, count it, six goals were in the net.

The police officer involved in the Dec. 31 shooting death of a Shakopee teacher has been identified by the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) as Gary Schnorenberg, who has been with the Mankato Department of Public Safety for 30…

Southwest Christian won five of 10 games decided by less than 10 points in 2015-2016, a girls basketball season that ended with a 15-12 record.

MANKATO — A man shot and killed by a Mankato police officer at a hotel early Saturday morning was a Shakopee teacher from Eden Prairie, according to the Mankato Free Press.

A winter-weather advisory for a wintry mix of freezing drizzle, light freezing rain and snow Sunday night into Monday has been issued by the National Weather Service office in Chanhassen.