Author: Staff Writer

CHASKA — An Eastern Carver County Schools Buildings and Grounds Department employee died in Chaska on Monday morning, Jan. 8, following an accident in the new sports dome.

A new grocery store, Mexican restaurant and coffee shop may be coming to Chaska.

State Sen. David Osmek of Mound has decided to change course in seeking the governor’s office. He has suspended his campaign and will no longer seek the Republican endorsement.

MINNEAPOLIS — Jamie Rykyto vividly remembers when she had to tell her 8-year-old son about the murders of his grandparents, Robert and Debra Lehman of Eden Prairie.

A new art exhibit, featuring the work of Karen Tiegland, of Carver, and her granddaughter Sara Tiegland, of Chanhassen, will be up through March at Shorewood City Hall and Senior Center.

Beginning Jan. 15, The Sower Gallery’s first art show of 2018 welcomes creatures from several animal kingdom families, created in various media, by 20 artists.

Beginning Jan. 15, The Sower Gallery’s first art show of 2018 welcomes creatures from several animal kingdom families, created in various media, by 20 artists.

PJ Velazquez reached the championship match at 126 pounds in a six-team invitational in Buffalo, placing second for Chaska/Chanhassen Jan. 6.

Nine minutes in, Chaska 12, second-ranked Wayzata 8.

There is a thought experiment named for Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodinger called “Schrodinger’s Cat.” The goal of the experiment was to explain his issues with the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, but the part that most people remember is this: there’s a cat in a box. Until you open the box and verify the results of the experiment, the cat is either alive or dead — or both, depending on your perspective.

Can’t sing? Not looking for a date at the moment? Not a ballroom-dancing celebrity? Fear not. It turns out there’s another way for you to be on a reality television show, and all you have to be is Swedish.

Winning a combined 35 games over the last two seasons, the success out of conference didn’t translate in the Wright County Conference for Holy Family Catholic girls basketball.

The Freshwater Society and the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office Water Patrol track ice-out dates for Lake Minnetonka. In some places, such as Prior Lake, people watch for ice-in dates, too.

The Freshwater Society and the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office Water Patrol track ice-out dates for Lake Minnetonka. In some places, such as Prior Lake, people watch for ice-in dates, too.

Jack Dahlgren broke his own pool records in the 200-yard (1:41.83) and 500-yard freestyle (4:35.21), leading Chaska/Chanhassen to a 95-64 win over Benilde-St. Margaret Jan. 4 at Chaska Middle School East.

As the Chaska veterans organizations representatives to the Veterans Park Task Force, we would like to thank the members of that task force, including: City Administrator Matt Podhradsky, city councilors Chris Schulz and Jay Rohe, Patricia Whitlock, Amy Bower, Paul Paige, Carl Lacey, Dave Thompson and Pascha Derkevics.

Many people who set new year’s resolutions will not keep them.

Residents don’t have to wait until the Saint Paul Winter Carnival later this month to see an ice castle. They can find one in Chanhassen now.

In 1968, Brian Horrigan graduated from high school in Texas and went to live in Chicago.

Four consecutive goals, two each in the second and third periods, led Chanhassen to a strong 4-2 road win at Holy Angels at Richfield Ice Arena on Jan. 4.