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W hen Tom Jessen bought his family’s old dairy farm in Wisconsin, the property had several old buildings that were falling apart and held old equipment.

Each week we publish a detail of a local landmark. The next week we identify the landmark. Do you know where the heck this is? Send us your guess.

While Chaska volleyball is off to an 0-3 start for the first time since 2011 — losses to top-10 Hopkins and Prior Lake as well as Lakeville South in four games in the late August season opener — there remains…

Three different players scored for Southwest Christian, which posted its fourth shutout in five games, defeating Mankato Loyola 3-0 Tuesday in girls soccer.

Even when Chanhassen had some of the best swimmers in the state, placed third as a team, when it came to swimming against Eden Prairie in a dual, it was all Eagles.

ST. LOUIS PARK — Karen Bjorgan had a good career, working at Wells Fargo in downtown Minneapolis.

ST. LOUIS PARK — Karen Bjorgan had a good career, working at Wells Fargo in downtown Minneapolis.

ORONO — Police officers found two people hanged at a house in Orono on Monday in what appears to be a murder-suicide.

Mid-America Festivals has just two more seasons of the Renaissance Festival at the existing Shakopee site before it has to move to a new location, and Jordan is the preferred new location.

Nancy Allen, of Chaska, is participating in the PurpleRideStride on Sept. 17 at Elm Creek Regional Park in Maple Grove.

We are currently experiencing technical difficulties with some links on the City’s website (cityofcarver.com) that we are working diligently to correct.  Therefore, if you anything in the meantime and are unable to get to that link, please feel free to call City Hall at 952-448-5353.  Thank you for your patience as we resolve this issue.

Are you interested in reading the public notices published in the August 31, 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…

Are you interested in reading the public notices published in the August 31, 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…

Sept. 7, 1876: The saloon keepers of this village were in council last Monday evening, and resolved to resist the payment of the $100 city license. They say they are willing to pay a reasonable license and no more.

The correct answer to last week’s quiz was the book sculpture on the south side of the SouthWest Metro Intermediate District 288 “401 Building” at 401 Fourth Street East, Chaska.

When a team plays one, maybe two games over each of the first two weekends of the Class B State Amateur Baseball Tournament, winning six games over four days is a tall order.

When a team plays one, maybe two games over each of the first two weekends of the Class B State Amateur Baseball Tournament, winning six games over four days is a tall order.

Dale Hoogeveen, with Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1791 in Chaska, has achieved All-American status as a district commander.

There was a movie made about it and even a television series.

Late summer and early fall is the best time for mushrooms. For the past couple of weeks I’ve been out and about searching high and low for all sorts of mushrooms. I find peace in the simple act of walking…