Carver Current

NOTE: The author was the head coach of the Chaska boys basketball team in 1981.

Some may have called them “The Purple Machine” or “The Purple Crush,” but neither of those nicknames were adored and adorned on a T-shirt like the name “Denny’s Doomsday Defense.”

Hopkins has been girls basketball immortality in the state of Minnesota over the last decade, having reached the state championship in nine of the last 10 years.

All three incumbents will return to the Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative’s Board of Directors after this year’s election results were finalized during the organization’s annual meeting Tuesday.

Get ready for the change in eBook and eAudiobook platforms as Carver County Library moves from cloudLibrary to OverDrive in May.

A 78-game win streak, a No. 1 ranking not only in the state of Minnesota, but in the country according to ESPN. One more win and Hopkins will own the state’s all-time consecutive wins record.

Holly Mae is a 2-year-old female Labrador mix that was pulled from an animal shelter. Whatever happened prior to being abandoned has caused her to be shy, timid and slow to trust people. Holly finds comfort in her crate and…

Carver County COVID-19 statistics, provided by Eric Sieger, county communications manager on April 12.

Carver County COVID-19 statistics, provided by Eric Sieger, county communications manager on April 5.

Two young adults died and two teenagers were injured in a crash in Burnsville on Easter Sunday, authorities confirmed this weekend.

A crossover kiss off the glass for two? How about a drive through two bodies, a shot off the glass for an answer? A corner 3-pointer? How about a step-back 3-pointer in returner.

Ready to give new voices a chance to fill the role she’s held for a decade, Minnesota Poet Laureate Joyce Sutphen is resigning.

Ready to give new voices a chance to fill the role she’s held for a decade, Minnesota Poet Laureate Joyce Sutphen is resigning.

For far too long, Gov. Tim Walz has abused his authority and completely disregarded the separation of powers enshrined in the Minnesota Constitution. During what is now the longest peacetime emergency in state history, Walz has shut down businesses, churches…

An estimated one million people in the U.S. live with Parkinson’s disease, the second-most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s, and the 14th-leading cause of death in our country.

New gubernatorial candidate Dr. Scott Jensen is quoted In your March 18 edition as speaking against “…. election processes that are not so dependent on hyper-attacks …”

With regards to the March 25 story on the Chanhassen Dinner Theatres (CDT), “Dinner theater drops ‘Cinderella’: Plans push for diversity.” Michael Brindisi deciding to, “start fresh with a clean slate” with the diversity of the cast would logically, and…

I recently heard that Carver County was the fastest growing county in the state, so I decided to check it out.