Category: Chaska Herald

Carver County’s Parks and Recreation Department announced plans to seek community input, starting in January 2021, for the development of Lake Waconia Regional Park’s planned waterfront service center, as well as other supportive park amenities in the recently redesigned park.

Bongards Creameries, a national cheese manufacturer, with corporate offices in Chanhassen, has donated over 18,000 pounds of cheese to help local food banks in the Minnesota and Tennessee communities in which they operate.

The Norman and Ann Hoffman Emergency Center renovation and expansion project on Ridgeview’s Waconia campus was completed in early October.

Winter high school sports teams were eager to start their seasons in early December when the word came down from Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. “We’re taking a pause.”

The phone calls and emails started flooding in before Thanksgiving. People interested in a skating rink in their yard.

What words come to mind when you think of Christmas Eve? “Jesus’ birth,” “Christmas carols,” “families together,” “gifts exchanged” are some words that you might answer.

I am old enough to remember what it was like before the computer, the internet and email. When we wanted to communicate, we had three options; talk face-to face, talk on your home phone now referred to as your landline,…

Some of you know me. I am a respected artist and art teacher in this community.

Tony Donatell started out in the gas station business 12 years ago — well, an 6,000-square-foot Eagan gas station with a big kitchen.

Ask Santa what he’s missing most this year because of the pandemic, and he might say mall visits with children.

If members of academic bowl teams around the country found themselves watching “The Greatest of All-Time” tournament on the game show Jeopardy last January, they would have been pulling hard for the underdog.

Megan Becker stood alongside the decorated tree in Gazebo Park and pointed at a yarn-style decoration that intrigued her.

Before the new year starts and the Eastern Carver County School Board welcomes our two newly elected board members, I want to acknowledge our two outgoing board members, Amy Logue and Ron Meyer.

The Electoral College should be maintained, but modified.

Saturday, Dec. 5, our community leaders did their part to make sure our veteran brothers and sisters were taken care of during the holidays.

Stocking Target’s shelves in early 2020 was mostly routine for Lori Blackketter. She’d replenish the grocery section, helping out customers by reading their lips or using a phone to write notes back and forth.

Like just about everything else, places of worship across the state have found ways to navigate a new normal in 2020.

Five hens. No egg or meat sales. A $100 permit fee.

Two more Carver County deaths due to COVID-19 were reported Thursday, Dec. 17.