Month: May 2018

The Spoonful brings you a roundup of the biggest news in the southwest metro region each week. 

When Janet Jarnefeld started working as a tick specialist at the Metropolitan Mosquito Control District 28 years ago, deer ticks were all but absent in the southwest metro.

Warmer weather got you wishing you could spend more time outdoors? You’re not the only one. 

Six kilometers is the average distance people in the developing world walk for water — water often contaminated with life-threatening diseases.

Six kilometers is the average distance people in the developing world walk for water — water often contaminated with life-threatening diseases.

The Jackpine Writers’ Bloc of the Park Rapids/Menahga area announces the release of Volume 27 of “The Talking Stick.”

The Carver County Historical Society and the Scott-Carver Threshers are hosting “Springtime on the farm” on Saturday, June 2.

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

Chaska Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1791 installed the elected officers and appointed positions for 2018-19 on May 8.

Lincoln Johnson knows the Chaska Town Course as well as any 18 holes. He knows each and every fairway and green. He knows where to take chances.

As usual, Twitter continues to deliver little nuggets of hilarity, so here are seven tweets of the week — one for every day so you can save them for yourself as a little treat if you’d like.

A match-up of two of the top teams in Section 5AA, Brady Richter threw six shutout innings, a 9-0 home win over Southwest Christian May 12 in Victoria.

Games six and seven in a five-day stretch, Chaska baseball split with Robbinsdale Cooper, suffering a Metro West Conference defeat in the first contest of the doubleheader May 11 at Athletic Park.

EXCELSIOR — Organizers of a parade and rally in Excelsior to honor metrowide high school students who opposed gun violence in recent months say they are perplexed as to why the City Council denied their permit request.

On this day in 1978, the U.S. Commerce Department announced that hurricane names would no longer be exclusively female.

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

Abibliophobia

Seniors Evan Oetter and Stephen Peper, juniors George Flectcher and Noah Cvetnic met up midfield, a runner-up finish in the 4×200 relay in the books.

At the end of April, Andrew Hazzard returned to Southwest News Media to join the regional reporting team. 

Are you interested in reading the public notices published in the May 10, 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.