Month: May 2018

Win No. 900 for Minnetonka coach Paul Twenge certainly didn’t come easy.

Have a day, Jessica Wolfer.

Thanks to the warmer weather the bathrooms at our parks in Carver will open for the season on Thursday, May 3, 2018.

It’s May, and a beloved nerd holiday is almost upon us. Friday is May 4 and internationally known as Star Wars Day, when fans can proclaim “May the Fourth be with You” and celebrate with everything from impromptu lightsaber battles to movie marathons to blue-tinged milk beverages. 

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.

Tommy Heiland was frank. He needed a hit in the worst way versus Chaska April 30.

Look for tasty food and drinks at the upcoming 34th annual Taste of Chaska.

The all-time series shows a 10-6 advantage for Chanhassen over Chaska softball, but over the past five seasons it has been all Storm, winners of seven straight, eight of the last nine.

Led by a medalist score of 67 from Lincoln Johnson, Chaska captured its second team title in as many tournaments, a team score of 288 at the Lakeville North Invitational at Legends Golf Club in Prior Lake May 1.

Five games in a five-day stretch, a 5-0 record for Southwest Christian baseball.

That first win always feels great.

The Interstate 35W and Interstate 494 interchange is one of four projects to be selected for funding as part of the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s Corridors of Commerce program, according to state Rep. Paul Rosenthal’s office.

The Minnesota River crested Sunday at 27.76 feet in Jordan.

The 22nd annual Christmas in May-Chaska is this Saturday.

Donzel Leggett will kick off his campaign to represent Minnesota House District 47B (which includes all or parts of Chaska, Chanhassen and Victoria) with an event at the Chaska Community Center, 1661 Park Ridge Drive, 4-6 p.m. Sunday, May 6.

The correct answer to last week’s quiz was the invasive species alert sign at the (now submerged) Winkel Park boat landing on the Minnesota River.

May 3, 1928: Last week the attendance of all the grades in Chaska High reached one of the lowest points of the year. During the past week 20 percent of the total number of students enrolled were absent almost in every case because of illness.

The major snowfalls of late winter and early spring closed schools, caused spin-outs, and certainly made a few memories. But with the snow thawing, it seems as if spring has finally arrived and this winter can soon join the others relegated to memory.