Month: May 2023

After a push in recent years to become a sanctioned varsity sport by the Minnesota State High School League, people involved in the sport of boys volleyball in Minnesota achieved that goal.

The Carver County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday responded to a threat made by a female student at Chanhassen High School.

In recent months, the Carver Scott Humane Society has joined other humane societies and animal shelters in finding ways to provide services while combating the canine influenza outbreak in the Twin Cities region.

With championship season approaching, the Chanhassen boys golf team hopes to build on the success it found at the end of last season.

Nearly two years after America Thayer was killed, her body thrown out of a vehicle onto a street in downtown Shakopee, Alexis Saborit was found guilty of her murder.

In a letter published May 4, “Emmer’s hypocrisy is showing,” the author states, “It’s too bad we lost Dean Phillips to Republican gerrymandering the last time the Republicans were in control of the state Capitol.”

Addiction seems to permeate our culture. It comes in many forms and varieties — some are very personal, and some are more societal.

As the end of the legislative session is swiftly approaching, committees formed with House and Senate members will work together to produce a single, joint bill for a number of issues. Three of those issues are addressed below.

With the House and Senate both passing their respective transportation bills, Carver County, along with Anoka, Dakota, Scott and Washington counties, is hoping the Legislature will consider more equitable transportation funding options.

Efforts toward the long-anticipated “Prince Rogers Nelson Memorial Highway” have finally come to fruition. On Tuesday, May 9, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed into law the bill to designate a section of Highway 5 as such.

In recent years, the end of the Minnesota legislative session has come with disappointment. Partisan divide has kept the Legislature from getting its job done. Lawmakers have consistently failed to address many of the problems and issues that face the…

Chaska-based nonprofit Bountiful Basket Food Shelf is now SuperShelf certified and invites the public to attend the SuperShelf Open House Celebration on May 21 from 1–3 p.m.

The Community Foundation for Carver County is seeking nominations for the inaugural Award in Philanthropy to be presented at the organization’s gala in September.

Christmas in May Chaska, a local nonprofit, spent Saturday, May 6, sprucing up the homes of those in the community that need it most.

The Eastern Carver County School Board meeting on April 24 kicked off with the recognition of Integrated Arts Academy: ProStart students, presented by Culinary Arts Instructor Remy Roper.

A peculiar pheasant inspired the Chaska Fire Department with his visits through the worst of COVID times, and now his story is immortalized in the form of a children’s book.

For over 40 years, Excelsior Art on the Lake has brought in several art fanatics into the community, and it will do so again this summer.

The JazzMN Orchestra will kick off its three-show run at the Chanhassen Dinner Theatres with a tribute to one of history’s most influential jazz musicians – Louis Armstrong.

The morning routines of many Chaska residents will look different from now after Chaska Dunn Brothers, a downtown caffeine hotspot owned by Mike Webb, closed its doors for good on May 5 after 15 years.

“Mirrors and Windows,” a book fair event promoting stories by authors of color and independent, minority owned book sellers, will be held at Family of Christ Lutheran Church on Saturday, May 13, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.