Month: April 2017

The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit organization committed to driving quality, safety, and transparency in the U.S. health care system, recently released new Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades, which assign A, B, C, D and F letter grades to hospitals nationwide.

Are you interested in reading the public notices published in the April 20, 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…

Wanda C. Johnson, a certified financial planner with Wanda C. Johnson & Associates, a private wealth advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. in Minnetonka, has earned membership in the company’s exclusive Hall of Fame.

The correct answer to last week’s quiz was the Rita Vannett Photography building, at 110 West Second Street.

There were five Chaska High School speech team members who competed in the Minnesota State High School Speech Tournament on April 21 in Apple Valley.

Leading 8-1 through three innings, Chaska softball needed some late-game heroics, winning in walk-off fashion in an 11-10 win over Eden Prairie in eight innings Monday.

Gary Schmidt bumped up the competition on the Southwest Christian tennis schedule this season, the first three bouts against Wright County Conference opponents.

The Chaska High School band and choir programs recently completed a spring break concert tour to Salzburg and Innsbruck, Austria and Venice, Italy.

Conner Kujak, a senior at Chaska High School, was recently presented with a $1,000 Eagle Scout Scholarship by the Northern Star Council Boy Scouts of America.

Volunteering your time and energy helps strengthen your community, but it also has important emotional and physical benefits.

It’s not hard to miss the headlines that speak of the conflict and divide happening in Washington, D.C. since Inauguration Day.

Ellie Miller hit five feet, three inches, winning her second consecutive high jump championship for Chaska at the Minnesota State University, Mankato Invitational on Saturday.

Just about anything can be found at the 31st annual Jonathan Festival of Garage Sales — including volunteers.

Chaska High School theater students take audiences back to the age of flappers, wingdings and jazz as they present the classic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby,” adapted for stage by Simon Levy.

The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office was notified of a reported body floating in the Mississippi River south of the Lowry Ave. Bridge at 2:20 p.m. Sunday, April 23.

Southwest Christian pounded out 10 hits, getting four strong innings on the mound from Nick Forar in a 12-2 win over Maranatha Christian in six innings Saturday in Cologne.

Southwest Christian pounded out 10 hits, getting four strong innings on the mound from Nick Forar in a 12-2 win over Maranatha Christian in six innings Saturday in Cologne.

Recording their best team score of the season — 296 — Holy Family Catholic won the Shattuck-St. Mary Invitational April 21 in Faribault.

Bullying is really hard to talk about. The specifics are pretty horrifying but taking action is complicated.

Jacob Goraczkowski won his second straight start, hurling a shutout in a 4-0 Chaska baseball home win over St. Louis Park April 20.