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The 20th annual District 112 Mid-Level Solo and Ensemble Festival was snowed out April 14. However, many students from Chaska Middle School East, Chaska Middle School West and Pioneer Ridge Middle School participated in a rescheduled mini-festival scheduled at each school.

Gov. Mark Dayton took to Minnesota classrooms last week to promote his last-minute effort to divert more than one-third of the state’s $329 million surplus to what he calls “emergency funding” for Minnesota public schools.

If you wanted to eat fresh, organic produce 15 years ago, your options were pretty limited.

In control, six outs needed to secure the first MCAA Conference baseball title ever for Southwest Christian, things got a little dicey May 16.

That’s one heck of a trophy.

A sound clip, lasting only three seconds, has the internet in a frenzy. Does the voice say “Laurel” or “Yanny”? 

Updated 4:29 p.m. Wednesday

Authorities arrested a 37-year-old man after he fled from police in a stolen vehicle, Tuesday morning.

Chatting with teenagers is always a joy as a part of my job. Speaking with Chaska High School senior McKay Hardy, I was blown away with his candidness, his maturity.

Each week we publish a detail of a local landmark. The next week we identify the landmark. Do you know where the heck this is? Send us your guess.

Lauren Oster said she thought she knew about Roe v. Wade before deciding to research the 1973 Supreme Court decision about abortion for this year’s History Day project.

The public is invited to participate in a shoe drive to raise funds for Star Legacy Foundation. Donations of gently worn, used and new shoes will be accepted.

Put the kettle on, dust off your finest fascinator and prepare to tune in for the televised wedding of Prince Harry of Great Britain and American actress Meghan Markle this Saturday.

Much of the southwest metro’s good news this week comes with a healthy dose of sugary sweetness.

One of six seniors in the class of 2018, Isaac Velgersdyk was one of the original players to join the Southwest Christian boys tennis team.

Facing the defending Class 2A state champions in the opening round of the Section 2AA boys tennis tournament, Chaska was defeated in straight sets at all seven matches.

Tied at three in the top of the seventh inning, Southwest Christian scored five times, moving one victory away from the program’s first MCAA Conference baseball title after defeating Trinity of River Ridge 8-3 on May 15.

Waconia won the Wright County Conference East Division boys golf title for the fourth consecutive season, a score of 297 in the final 18-hole event May 15 at Dahlgreen Golf Course near Chaska.

When Janet Jarnefeld started working as a tick specialist at the Metropolitan Mosquito Control District 28 years ago, deer ticks were all but absent in the southwest metro.

ST. PAUL — The price tag for the Southwest Light Rail Transit project is expected to go up again.