Month: January 2022

The start to the 2021-22 boys basketball season was foreign to the Chaska program. Just one win in the first eight games. A program that year in and year out is winning conference titles and in the mix for a…

Holy Family Catholic clinched the Wright County Conference boys hockey title, stretching a win streak to six games, in a 5-2 road win at Delano/Rockford on Jan. 27.

It took overtime, but Chaska defeated Minnetonka, clinching the No. 1 seed for the Section 2AAAA Girls Basketball Tournament in 2021. It made the Skippers go through both Eden Prairie and the Hawks.

How patient are you? We all get impatient at times. For many people, the last couple of years have been trying our patience. Yes, we have been forced to adjust to the many changes that have occurred. This can contribute…

Ren Clayton was in one of the most beautiful places on the planet in Hawaii, working as a sports anchor for FOX affiliate KHON2. His down time was spent learning how to surf.

Chanhassen won back-to-back games for the first time this season, improving to 8-6 overall and 5-3 in the Metro West Conference in a 61-50 win over Waconia on Jan. 28.

Chaska hit double digits for the second consecutive game, a 10-1 boys hockey road win at Waconia on Jan. 27 in improving to 8-1 in the Metro West Conference.

Callin Hake scored 33 points, one of three Chanhassen players in double figures, in an offensive shootout with St. Louis Park, an 83-77 girls basketball win on Jan. 26.

The 29th annual February Festival returns to Lake Ann in Chanhassen, noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 5, Last year’s festivities were held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Are you interested in reading the public notices published in the January 27, 2022 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…

For many people around the world and across the country, snowmobiles are just motorized vehicles designed for winter travel and recreation on snow. But for Minnesotans, snowmobiles have become a way of life and even a sport that many have…

The complexity of nature is often hard to understand and even harder to witness. Sure, we learn about it in school, read about it in a book, or watch it on a TV nature documentary, but it isn’t until you…

Sports editor Eric Kraushar:

One joy of reading and participating in the Chaska Herald opinion pages for 45 years is exposure to a wide range of views. The arguments used to be more civil and fact-based though. People cared more about how candidates would…

The nature photography of Priya Murahari will be on display at the Chanhassen Library through the end of February.

Minnesota winter means snowy streets, icy lakes and, sometimes, sled dog races.

By the time she was 22, Holly Betker and mom Jeannie Jackson agreed it was almost time for Becker to move out on her own.

Are you interested in reading the public notices published in the January 20, 2022 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…

Holy Family Catholic boys basketball used its height advantage for a season-high 86 points, a 15-point road win at Jordan, 86-71, on Jan. 25.

The Wright County Conference has belonged to Holy Family Catholic boys hockey for the past decade. Dating back to the 2012-13 season, the Fire are 81-4-1 in league play.