Carver Current

We are writing to express our support for Eastern Carver County Schools’ 2021 operating referendum.

Brad Hand has made 448 career appearances in Major League Baseball through the August 2021, making him the longest tenured major leaguer to come from Chaska.

The highly anticipated “Immersive Van Gogh” show made its way to Minneapolis in August and promises to dazzle spectators with moving projections of the renowned Dutch painter’s most famous post-impressionist artworks.

Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021, had just about everything great about town team baseball in Minnesota. Eighty-two degrees and blue skies.

Chanhassen won all six games in the 2020 season, the second time in program history with an unbeaten record — the season started late and was cut short due to increased COVID positive cases around the state.

Looking back at the last eight seasons, across the Class 5A landscape in Minnesota football, it’s hard to find many programs that have had the year in and year out success of Chaska.

A crash between a vehicle and a bicycle in Dahlgren Township resulted in traumatic injuries to the bicyclist, on Tuesday, Aug. 31, according to the Carver County Sheriff’s Office.

A crash between a vehicle and a bicycle in Dahlgren Township resulted in traumatic injuries to the bicyclist, on Tuesday, Aug. 31, according to the Carver County Sheriff’s Office.

Three Chanhassen swimmers – Zoe Thoma, Anna Schottler and Avery Luedtke — each won two individual events as the Storm opened the 2021 girls swimming and diving season with a 134-49 win over St. Louis Park.

Holy Family Catholic’s scoring prowess was on display in a 7-0 shutout home win over Blake School in girls soccer on Aug. 31.

Whether you are looking to get outside or stay cozied up at home, Carver County Library has family friendly programs planned for you. Take a stroll and read a story at Chaska’s StoryWalk on Saturday, Sept. 18 anytime between 10:30…

The Library will be closed on Monday, September 6 for Labor Day.

Rick Carlson sets out to pair the right llama with the right youth within the Carver County 4-H project. That’s why the farm is called Carlson’s Lloveable Llamas, located between Waconia and Chaska on Engler Boulevard.

With a spread of just 33 seconds between the first and seventh runners for the Chaska girls cross country team, the opening race at Lake Elmo Park Reserve was one of success for the Hawks.

Forty-three years ago this week, I wrote my first story for the old Minneapolis Tribune, the first of thousands I would tap out for the newspaper over 27 years while it morphed into the Star Tribune of the Twin Cities…

Holy Family Catholic had the ability to score goals in 2020, totaling 36 in 13 matches. Evidenced in a scrimmage in Duluth to start the 2021 season, finding the net won’t be a problem again this season.

Chaska had lofty goals for the 2020 season coming off a section championship appearance a year before. Then the season was delayed. Then the season was halted, just 11 matches in, 10 against conference opponents.

The Justin Kukowski Foundation hosts its third annual Autumn On The Bluff wine tasting event 3-9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2.

Nate Gilkey has recently been named Vice President of Commercial Lending for Center Bank, and will be officing in the new Chaska location set to open in September.

I am no stranger to traveling hundreds or even thousands of miles to see, study and document some of nature’s most wonderful events. For over 35 years I have traveled to see the epic migration of sandhill cranes in Nebraska,…