Month: April 2023

Spend July 21-23 among the stars at Baylor Regional Park as the Minnesota Astronomical Society leads a weekend of tours, classes and activities for all ages at the annual Camping with the Stars.

Members of the American Legion Auxiliary Chaska Unit #57 wore the color purple during the monthly meeting on April 3 to celebrate Purple Up! For Military Kids Day on April 15.

Each week, area athletes and teams compete on the field, track, court or course. Here are some of the highlights from April 10 to April 15.

The Jonathan Association, the organization behind the neighborhood that was built as a part of the New Town movement of the 1960s, is a community of more than 4,000 residents that knows how to throw an event.

Typically after an Arts Consortium of Carver County exhibit has run its course, artists pick up their work and move on.

Eastern Carver County School District students begin their lifelong relationship with economics and finances in their seventh grade civics class.

Numerous banners of different accomplishments hang on the walls of the Chaska High School main gymnasium.

On Sunday, April 16, the Chanhassen Lions served approximately 400 people at their annual pancake breakfast.

Golf in Minnesota is inching closer and closer as the Chaska Town Course plans to open April 25.

Coming into the 2023 season, Chanhassen began training inside with inches of snow accumulated outside and an uncertainty of when the team would get to train outside.

A popular and appetizing fund-raising event for the Carver Lions Club — its annual pork chop dinner — returns late this month.

The Chaska girls lacrosse team is aiming to make this season different from the past.

The University Minnesota Extension for Carver and Scott Counties will be hosting a beginner workshop for backyard chicken keeping.

Are you interested in reading the public notices published in the April 13, 2023 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 the 24th year, Southern Valley Alliance is putting on its annual gala to raise money for its work supporting those impacted by domestic violence.

Volunteering your time, energy, and resources makes the world a better place, makes the community a better community, and it makes us better versions of ourselves. Minnesota is home to many residents who give back to their communities by volunteering…

Wind Chill is not something Minnesotans usually love to hear, but it’s not all bad.

On March 12, the Carver County Sheriff’s Department issued nine citations to businesses across the county for the sale of tobacco to a minor. Chanhassen, Victoria, and Norwood Young America each had two businesses receive citations, and Waconia had three.

Carver County Water Management is partnering with the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in educational programming about aquatic bugs in the local lakes, streams and wetlands.

State of the city. Not long ago, I had a chance to take in the state of the city messages of the four cities in District 112, sponsored by the Southwest Chamber of Commerce.