Chaska seniors Micah Roane and Connor Souba were selected to play in the Minnesota High School All-Star Game Dec. 9 at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.

Chaska Middle School West eighth-grader Sean Bartels has been selected as the baritone saxophonist in the MBDA (Minnesota Band Directors Association) Mid-Level State Honor Jazz Band.

The Minnesota Department of Transportation plans to close two eastbound lanes of Interstate 394 on the morning of Wednesday, Dec. 20.

The state plans to replace the I-35W bridge over the Minnesota River next year and improve the corridor from West 106th Street to Cliff Road in Burnsville next year, which will surely make driving hell for commuters for awhile.

“Minnesota nice” is a phrase that’s bandied around a lot, but rarely with some concrete math behind it. Well, WalletHub just released a report on which city in the United States was the most caring city in 2017, all the better to see if Minnesota can put its money where its mouth is.

Chaska isn’t at the point where it can overlook teams.

Back and forth all game, Jordan and Southwest Christian showed what will be a budding rivalry for years to come in the Minnesota River Conference.

Coming off a tough loss to one of the top teams in the state of Minnesota, Chanhassen scored six unanswered goals, winning 6-1 at home over Owatonna Dec. 16 in Victoria.

If you happened to be downtown Carver on the Saturday evening following Thanksgiving, you probably had the opportunity to see the first lighting of our Holiday Tree.

A one-goal lead in the closing seconds of regulation, Chaska/Chanhassen found a way to regroup in overtime, getting a game-winning goal from Katelyn Roberts in a 2-1 victory at Fargo North-South Dec. 15 in North Dakota.

When in the gym to cover dance team, I think back often to the winter of 2006, my one year reporting in the great communities of Olivia and Renville on Highway 212 in west central Minnesota.

Chanhassen entered play Dec. 15 with a 1-3 record, a few buckets in each of the three losses away from being 4-0.

Eden Prairie entered the 2017-18 season as the consensus pick to win the Section 2-4A boys basketball title.

Are you interested in reading the public notices published in the December 14, 2017 print edition of the Chaska Herald newspaper? The page or pages on which those notices were printed are attached to this item, in the form of .pdf’s that can be opened with Adobe Acrobat.

For a copy, click HERE.

 

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I am responding to the article in the Nov. 30 paper (“Concerns about yard waste site”).

Are we living in an oligarchy?

As a resident of Chaska and a parent of two teenage children, I would like to see my city raise the tobacco sales age to 21 and with that get tobacco out of high school environments.