Carver Current

Editor’s note: With the recent $309.674 million restoration of the Minnesota Capitol, the Herald is republishing this updated version of a story that first ran on June 30, 1905, during the 100th anniversary of the building.

I t’s months before Second Street will be reconstructed and some business owners are unsure what they will do.

John Emery is a U.S. Army veteran, a bike shop manager, beekeeper and Chaska resident.

“Old timers,” as former Chaska baseball coach Dale Welter refers to them, from Maple Lake, still to this day fume about the start of the 1947 State Amateur Baseball Tournament.

Top teams in the Metro West and East conferences clashed Wednesday, Chaska, coming off a 32-point win, scored 45 first-half points, defeating 12-win North St. Paul 76-57.

Interim Chanhassen High School Principal Dick Ungar said the mood has been positive at the school since returning from the holidays. Both students and staff have had time to reflect and re-focus on the positive things that happen and continue…

Interim Chanhassen High School Principal Dick Ungar said the mood has been positive at the school since returning from the holidays. Both students and staff have had time to reflect and re-focus on the positive things that happen and continue…

Gordon Stewart, former pastor at Shepherd of the Hill Presbyterian Church, hasn’t been idle in his retirement.

Chaska/Chanhassen had the top two finishers in 10 of 12 events Jan. 31, completing the Metro West Conference dual sweep in a 97-79 win over Richfield.

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.

Chaska/Chanhassen has won nine games in a row, outscoring opponents 47-10 in the stretch.

Trailing twice in the third period, Chaska scored three times, earning a 5-5 draw with St. Louis Park Tuesday.

Holy Family Catholic scored six times in the first period, leading 9-0 at one point, in a 10-1 home win over Litchfield/Dassel-Cokato Tuesday.

Chaska girls basketball won its third straight game, defeating host Richfield 75-41 Tuesday.

After 31 years behind the microphone courtside at Williams Arena, this will mark the final season for University of Minnesota men’s basketball public address announcer Dick Jonckowski of Shakopee.

The Chaska High School Speech Team competed in Eden Prairie Saturday. The team took 4th place overall, with 18 finalists, including seven novice (1st year) competitors.

Three local Chaska High School seniors from Boy Scout Troop 589 — Jonathan Early, Conner Kujak and Jacob Meier — were presented with the Eagle Scout Award, scouting’s highest rank, on Jan. 22.

The Guardian Angels Youth Leadership Team and Guardian Angels School students recently created fleece blankets to donate to hospitalized children.

Are you interested in reading the public notices published in the January 26, 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…

Feb. 2, 1922: A bunch of our young fellows, 8th graders, went to Carver Sunday afternoon and defeated the Carver lads at basket ball. We understand the score was 18 to 5 in favor of Chaska. The Chaska boys showed…