Month: April 2018

The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum has been again nominated for Best Botanical Garden in the USA Today Reader’s Choice Contest.

The District 112 Foundation has named five finalists for the 2018 Excellence in Education Teacher of the Year Award.

A collection of art and writing is presented in “Women’s Voices,” through May 31 at The Sower Gallery.

Nearly 200 people, representing 120 registered member households and businesses, attended Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative’s 81st annual meeting at New Prague High School on April 10.

Are you interested in reading the public notices published in the April 12, 2018 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 .pdf’s that can be opened with Adobe Acrobat.

The bureaus of the National Weather Service that cover Minnesota — in Chanhassen, Duluth, International Falls, Sioux Falls, S.D., La Crosse, Wis., and Grand Forks, N.D. — released official storm snowfall totals for the April 13-16 snowstorm:

The bureaus of the National Weather Service that cover Minnesota — in Chanhassen, Duluth, International Falls, Sioux Falls, S.D., La Crosse, Wis., and Grand Forks, N.D. — have released official storm snowfall totals from weather spotters around the state:

In addition to distributing food to families in need, Bountiful Basket Food Shelf also accepts and distributes essential personal care items such as soaps, shampoo, toothbrushes and diapers.

We could all probably use a pick-me-up this with the April blizzard temporarily ruining all our lives. 

Congratulations on surviving this record-breaking blizzard. You’ve lived to watch another installment of The Spoonful. 

Jonathan Montessori School, a Montessori learning environment for children ages 3 months through kindergarten, invites community members to its second annual Fun Run & 5K on Sunday, May 6.

A haven for Chaska and Chanhassen varsity athletic programs since spring practices started in mid-March, the new Eastern Carver County Athletic Center dome has been “irreplaceable,” said one local coach.

The Ladybug Child Care Center opened Feb. 20 in Shakopee. The physical structure is a 10,500-square-foot single-story child care center with an additional 15,000 square feet of outdoor playground space.

If you’ve managed to dig out from the weekend’s historic snowfall and plan to head to work Monday, be careful. Be safe and slow down. According to MnDOT as of 6:30 p.m., Sunday, April 15, all major roadways in the Twin Cities are partially covered with snow and slippery. Look out for icy bridges and ramps. Roadways have been treated but use caution driving. Check with your city for snow emergency updates.

Snow has continually fallen on the Twin Cities since Friday evening. The flakes have been dry in the cold night air and big, wet and heavy during the day — making the inches stack up. Most places have more than a foot on the ground, all thanks to this snowstorm.

Leaving corporate America has never been so clean.

Updated 11:28 a.m. Saturday 

On March 24, 18,000 people attended the for March for Our Lives Rally at the state Capitol.

This past week the Senate Health and Human Services Committee met to hear testimony on Senate File 3611, sponsored by Sen. Mark Johnson.

My name is Linda-Mary Sarafolean, and I work as a living skills instructor in Eden Prairie at a senior’s day program through the nonprofit organization Opportunity Partners.