Author: Staff Writer

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

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.

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.

The voices of Carly Simon, Carole King and Joni Mitchell were part of a generation’s soundtrack in the 1960s and 1970s. The Chanhassen Dinner Theatres will pay tribute to the iconic singer-songwriters on Friday, May 18 and Saturday, May 19.

The Minnesota Department of Transportation will begin the Highway 7 resurfacing project Monday, May 14. It is expected to be complete by late August 2018, weather permitting.

MINNEAPOLIS — Wayzata police officer Bill Mathew’s femur was broken in three places. Sixteen ribs were broken in 23 places. He broke a tibia and a fibula. His boot flew into a different lane. His shoulder was dislocated. His aorta was severed. Every organ in his body was lacerated.

Students at Chaska Middle School West learned about various American Indian traditions on May 10.

Southwest Christian track and field athletes continue to make people ask where is that school? By the way, it’s in Chaska, not Edgerton.

Wow. I’m humbled beyond belief. On Sunday, we officially launched the Donzel Leggett for State House campaign, and the turnout blew me away. It inspired me.