Community News and Views – Carver, Minnesota, USA
For the last year I’ve been hosting Carver Current out of a server in my home. This has been convenient and worked well for the most part.
Recently I migrated to a different server in my house, and since then, I’ve had about 5 days of downtime and significantly slower response times.
In order to increase speed and reliability, I have migrated the site again to a virtual server in a data center. Hopefully this will really improve things for everyone. Thanks for reading!
Like to play bingo? How about forty games of bingo? When???? You ask.
The Carver Black Sox formally invite all of you interested in playing bingo and
having fun to come to the Village Hall on Friday, November 18th at 7 PM. You can play bingo until 11 PM. There will be food and beverages served.
There’s a meat raffle, as well. So be sure to mark on your calendars, November 18th, and plan on going to The Carver Black Sox Turkey and Ham Bingo!! It’s fun for all ages!!!
Read this month’s Villager Tower for complete information on Steamboat Days, as well as the story of Carver’s very own steamboat!
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Villager Tower #277 August / September
The Villager Tower has been written and published since 1983 by Ricki Schultz. She can be contacted at (952) 448-5126 and [email protected].
The Chaska Herald has some great pictures and history of the rail line and bridge, connecting Chaska and Carver, that is being removed this summer.
The 5.6-mile stretch of rail running between Louisville in Scott County through Carver and into Chaska was constructed by the Minneapolis-St. Louis Railway in 1870 and 1871 at a cost of $20,000 per mile, according to von Walter’s research. The grand opening run was made from here to Minneapolis on Nov. 25, 1871.
Here’s the remaining demolition schedule for weeks beginning:
Aug. 1, 8 and 13: Remove wood bridge trestle.
Aug. 22, 29, and Sept. 7: Work continues on bridge. Remove road crossings in Chaska.
Sept. 14 thru Oct. 10: Complete steel bridge span removal.
Oct. 17 thru Oct. 24: Demolish concrete piers.
Oct. 31 through Nov. 7: Final cleanup and re-grading.
Read more: Chaska Herald – Historic rail line soon to be history
