Category: Chaska Herald

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.

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 Highway 5 was the topic of conversation April 5 when Victoria Mayor Deb McMillan and U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer, D-Minn., met at Victoria City Hall — less than a city block from the aging roadway.

National Public Safety Telecommunications Week is being observed this week to celebrate the “unsung heroes that nobody sees,” according to Debra Paige, the Carver County director of emergency management.

Students in the preschool at Family of Christ Lutheran Church in Chanhassen gathered April 6 to listen to a reading of the children’s book “My Daddy Tells Me” by author Thuba Nguyen.

Earlier in April, Chaska High School senior Kennedy Sanders received the school’s 2023 Athena Award.

Are you interested in reading the public notices published in the April 6, 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…

Chanhassen All-State soccer player Grace Fogarty earned one more recognition in March to close out her high school career.

The Chaska Water Department is flushing water mains from April 10 to May 2.

Baseball is back, and the Chanhassen Storm are coming off one of the strongest performances in program history.

The season is underway for 11,986 student-athletes participating in the Minnesota State High School Clay Target League this spring.

April 6 was a highly anticipated day for high school coaches and teams around Minnesota.

The Minnesota Departments of Agriculture and Health are partnering to offer free suicide prevention training for faith leaders in rural communities. This April and May, training will be offered to rural congregation leaders of all faiths and denominations.

As crime has been pushed further into the virtual realm with new and evolving technologies, detectives have had to reassess the way they investigate crime scenes — or, perhaps more accurately, “crime screens.”

It is almost spring, and the season of projects is right around the corner. If your project involves new construction, or remodeling of a structure, you will likely need a building permit.

People often ask me about my favorite animal to photograph. They want me to answer with one distinct and definitive favorite critter. Time after time, I disappoint them by saying my favorite wildlife to photograph tends to be whatever I…

A small fire started on a ceiling light fixture at Chaska High School the early morning of Wednesday, March 29, while the district was on spring break.

Chaska Police Department officers responded to the following calls. This is not a complete list of incidents.

When someone mentions a “doubleheader,” we usually think of two baseball games played back-to-back by the same pair of teams. To railroad employees, the word refers to a train pulled by two locomotives. This month, skywatchers will be able to…

In a recent letter, “Oh, the ills of socialism,” in the March 2 issue of The Herald, Sheri Meyers defended her appreciation for “socialism” and presented a defense that was built on a wrong premise. I could address each item…