Month: October 2021

With the safety and security of the school board, staff, students, and public, Eastern Carver County Schools will institute a new policy for the October 25 open forum and board meeting.

Two pool records fell at Pioneer Ridge Middle School on Oct. 19 in Chanhassen’s 98-64 win over Robbinsdale Cooper.

Chaska completed back-to-back-to-back Metro West Conference sweeps, running their league win streak to 28 matches dating back to the 2018 season, with a 3-0 win over Orono on Oct. 19.

Looking for a good book to listen to? Carver County Library offers great choices for audiobook users including audiobooks on CD. While most feature one narrator, some titles feature a “full cast” recording of the book.

Providence Academy allowed just nine total goals in the regular season, and lost just twice in low-scoring affairs with No. 1-ranked St. Paul Academy.

Holy Family Catholic knew it would take a complete 80-minute game, in all phases, to beat top-ranked Southwest Christian in the Section 6A championship Oct. 19.

Friday and Saturday brought merrymaking to Firemen’s Park with this year’s Fire and Ice Festival and Bonspiel.

Weekly parkrun events are now taking place at Chaska’s Courthouse Lake each Saturday. The free, timed 5K events are volunteer-run and gift milestone T-shirts when people participate in 25, 50, 100, 250 and 500 runs.

Chaska Police Department officers responded to the following calls. This is not a complete list of incidents.

Carver County Public Health is reopening a community COVID-19 testing site at the Lake Waconia Event Center.

It’s hard to beat this time of year. The cool days, the colorful trees and pumpkins. Ya, that’s right, pumpkins. I find pumpkins fascinating. Especially the history of pumpkins. You might agree after reading about this amazing vine.

If winning the Section 2AA team title without surrendering a set wasn’t enough to show how dominant top-ranked Minnetonka is in girls tennis this fall, the Skippers followed that up by sending all six individuals to state as well.

Erik Weidner stood at curve 12 at Utah Olympic Park, home to the Park City bobsled track, made famous in the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic games.

Hurt in a match with New Prague Sept. 14, Ellie Sieling missed 10 contests with an ankle injury for Bloomington Jefferson.

The reaction of senior Claire Carver told the story of the first 40 minutes between host Minnetonka and Chaska in the Section 2AAA girls soccer quarterfinals Oct. 12.

When senior captain Katie Anseth scored her fourth goal of the season with 11 minutes to play, a strike from 25 or so yards out, Holy Family Catholic girls soccer looked like they would be headed to the Section 6A…

Southwest Christian was in control, up 2-0 in the Section 6A semifinal at halftime Saturday. The lead was 4-1 with 14 minutes to play. And then 4-2 with five minutes to play. And then 4-3 ….