Month: May 2018

Some students need extra time to study, others need it to jam out with their buddies.

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Put the kettle on, dust off your finest fascinator and prepare to tune in for the televised wedding of Prince Harry of Great Britain and American actress Meghan Markle this Saturday.

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Tim Triplett grew up around the game of football. His father, Dave, head coach at the University of South Dakota from 1979 to 1988.

This week’s top-five crimes and courts stories in the southwest metro include the shooting death of a 7-year-old Plymouth boy and charges filed in an alleged hit-and-run in Credit River Township.

Thank you to the United States Postal workers for their annual food drive to benefit local food shelves. Last Saturday local postal workers picked up 6,192 pounds of food donated by caring people that went to the Bountiful Basket Food Shelf of Eastern Carver County, which serves individuals from Carver, Chanhassen, Chaska and Victoria.  The Bountiful Basket is operated by volunteers and serves over 1,000 individuals monthly with nearly 25,000 pounds of food.

It seems I have been reading Linda Worm’s thank you letters following each Red Cross blood donation drive, to the Herald and the community, since the 1970s.

Earlier this year, MinnPost writer Susan Perry wrote a very compelling article entitled “Americas appalling reality: We don’t care about our children.” As the CEO of Senior Community Services, a nonprofit exclusively serving older adults, I’d like to suggest another appalling reality: We don’t care about our older adults.

Over the last few months, our community has been hit hard by several attempted and completed suicides.

I would like to thank the Waconia Lions Club and everyone else involved who donated both their time and money to take Korean and Vietnam vets to Washington, D.C. on a special chartered flight. Also, the Carver County Sheriff’s Office, which provided and escort both to and from the airport.

We recently heard the good news that Hazeltine National Golf Club will host another Ryder Cup in 2028.

There are a growing number of communities and individuals that are actively calling out distracted driving for what it is, a dangerous and selfish choice.

Residents of Minnesota’s Second Congressional District who registered to attend the first town hall meeting hosted by U.S. Rep. Jason Lewis learned Thursday if they received tickets to three events in the district Saturday, a move that left some constituents feeling unheard.

Minnetonka fired 38 shots on net, avenging a one-goal loss in the first meeting with Edina in a 15-6 win May 17.

Needing to reverse two matches from a regular season bout to advance in the Section 2A playoffs, Southwest Christian was unable to make up any ground, a 5-2 Holy Family Catholic boys tennis win May 17.

Eight of nine Chaska starters had at least one run batted in, Chaska scoring seven times in the fourth inning en route to an 11-5 win over Bloomington Jefferson May 17 at Athletic Park.

Sydney Monge played her best 18 holes of the season, a second-place score of 75, leading Minnetonka girls golf to a third-place team finish at the Andover Invitational at Bunker Hills Golf Course in Coon Rapids May 17.

More weekend closures are coming to Interstate 94 and key access points to Minneapolis as summer construction chugs along.