Carver Current

What words come to mind when you think of Christmas Eve? “Jesus’ birth,” “Christmas carols,” “families together,” “gifts exchanged” are some words that you might answer.

The phone calls and emails started flooding in before Thanksgiving. People interested in a skating rink in their yard.

I am old enough to remember what it was like before the computer, the internet and email. When we wanted to communicate, we had three options; talk face-to face, talk on your home phone now referred to as your landline,…

Some of you know me. I am a respected artist and art teacher in this community.

Tony Donatell started out in the gas station business 12 years ago — well, an 6,000-square-foot Eagan gas station with a big kitchen.

Ask Santa what he’s missing most this year because of the pandemic, and he might say mall visits with children.

Megan Becker stood alongside the decorated tree in Gazebo Park and pointed at a yarn-style decoration that intrigued her.

If members of academic bowl teams around the country found themselves watching “The Greatest of All-Time” tournament on the game show Jeopardy last January, they would have been pulling hard for the underdog.

The Electoral College should be maintained, but modified.

Before the new year starts and the Eastern Carver County School Board welcomes our two newly elected board members, I want to acknowledge our two outgoing board members, Amy Logue and Ron Meyer.

Saturday, Dec. 5, our community leaders did their part to make sure our veteran brothers and sisters were taken care of during the holidays.

Like just about everything else, places of worship across the state have found ways to navigate a new normal in 2020.

Stocking Target’s shelves in early 2020 was mostly routine for Lori Blackketter. She’d replenish the grocery section, helping out customers by reading their lips or using a phone to write notes back and forth.

Five hens. No egg or meat sales. A $100 permit fee.

Two more Carver County deaths due to COVID-19 were reported Thursday, Dec. 17.

Gloves and sticks flew through the air as Minnetonka hockey players rushed to the home side of the ice. A pile of Skippers in the goal crease as they celebrated a 2018 state boys title over Duluth East.

How was 2020?

This winter has been a bit strange in the northland where I reside. Not much snow but enough cold temperatures to start freezing the lakes. The small lakes and ponds freeze up tight right away, but the larger lakes have…