Month: March 2018

Last summer, during street reconstruction in downtown Chaska and Carver, one person found a silver lining amidst the mess.

The Chaska City Council approved a tobacco license application submitted by a new business in town, Chaska Smoke Shop during its Monday night meeting.

Chaska police officers responded to the following calls.

Chanhassen Library will host a panel discussion “Vietnam War 360.” The discussion will be held 10:30 a.m.-noon Saturday, March 24.

Wow! What?

A winter storm watch is in effect from Friday evening through Saturday morning, according to the National Weather Service.

Eden Prairie Mayor Nancy Tyra-Lukens has been honored by SouthWest Transit Commission for her 21 years of service with the bus transit agency.

Chaska VFW Post 1791 hosts its monthly burger night tonight, Wednesday, March 22.

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? Send us your guess.

The issue of guns and security has come to Chaska, as local students joined a countrywide protest against gun violence in schools, following the Parkland, Florida, school shooting that left 17 people dead.

Growth.

Updated at 4 p.m. Tuesday

Yellowbook directories will be delivered to Carver residents soon.

Yellowbook directories are 100% recyclable, so drop your out-of-date directories into your recycling when the new book arrives.

See the attached flyer for more information regarding recycling and opt-out information.

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A video posted to twitter on March 15 shows a dog named “Moose” in a peaceful slumber until his own snores rudely awaken him. The video has been viewed over 4.5 million times. 

The Chaska Speech Team competed at Roseville Area High School on March 17 where it placed 10th out of 33 teams in the final invitational tournament of the season.

The answer to last week’s quiz was Brickyard Villas, off of Brickyard Drive in south Chaska.

March 15, 1934: For the first time in its history Chaska is to be represented in the state high school declamatory contest by Miss Nora Schimelpfenig, student of Chaska high school. She goes into the state to compete with three other contestants in the humorous division. The event will take place on Wednesday of next week in Minneapolis.

March 22, 1962: A four-piece teenage band under the leadership of an aspiring local musician made their TV debut last Thursday afternoon. John Bury’s Casualties made a guest appearance on the Arle Haberle “Around the Town” show on WCCO-TV. Local musicians participating were Bury, piano; Darrell Fasching, drums, and Katherine Sitar, vocalist, both seniors at Guardian Angels High School.