Category: Syndicated

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

Free Car Seat Safety Check-Up

Carver Fire Department
801 Jonathan Carver Parkway

Saturday, May 19, 9:00 a.m. – Noon

Get your car seat checked by a certified technician.

To schedule a car seat check, please contact:  Esther DeLaCruz at 651-796-8142

Coming off a 3-2 loss to Concordia Academy of Roseville, Southwest Christian softball bounced back in a big way, an 11-1 five-inning win over Columbia Heights on a soggy May 14.

The answer to last week’s quiz was the (always divisive) sculpture “Nature Morte,” at the northwest corner of Faulkner Drive and Clover Ridge Drive.

We’re not talking two-peat, or three-peat. We’re talking a minimum four-peat. Maybe more.

“If you’re playing goalie, you’re a little screwed up to want to take the hits.”

Click HERE for the most recent update.

For all 2017 Improvement Project Construction updates and contact information, click HERE.

The Spoonful brings you a roundup of the biggest news in the southwest metro region each week. 

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.

Warmer weather got you wishing you could spend more time outdoors? You’re not the only one. 

Chaska Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1791 installed the elected officers and appointed positions for 2018-19 on May 8.

The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit organization committed to driving quality, safety, and transparency in the U.S. health care system, has released new Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades, which assign A, B, C, D and F letter grades to hospitals nationwide.

The Carver County Historical Society and the Scott-Carver Threshers are hosting “Springtime on the farm” on Saturday, June 2.

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.