The Minnesota Department of Health today announced that four additional free at-home rapid tests are available to all Minnesota households through the state’s online ordering program. This will be the last chance for Minnesotans to get free tests before the program ends.
The Spring Lake Park-Blaine-Mounds View Fire Department’s annual Santa Parade returns Dec. 5-8.
The Anoka-Hennepin School Board voted at its meeting on Monday, Nov. 21, 6-0 to finalize boundary changes for its elementary and middle schools. The changes will go into effect for the 2022-23 school year. No changes will be made to any high school boundaries, and the elementary and middle s…
Carver County commissioners, convening Nov. 1 as the county board of health, heard a public health report from Dr. Richard Scott, community health services administrator. It’s a report that is presented generally twice a year.
Education leaders and several recent media reports have raised concerns about significant declines in school math and reading test scores in Minnesota and across the nation.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Sun Patriot Newspapers and sunpatriot.com are discontinuing weekly updates on COVID-19 statistics and will instead move to a monthly update schedule. Watch the Waconia Patriot and Greater Carver County News & Times print editions for monthly updates. Updates will then also…
9,594 cases, 4 more than yesterday, for Morrison County as of 11 a.m., June 29, 2022, according to the Minnesota Department of Health. Data is no longer updated on weekends by the MDH.
County commissioners heard a mid-year county health report Tuesday, May 24, from Dr. Richard Scott, Carver County Health and Human Services deputy division director. It marked the first time in at least two years that COVID-19 was not exclusively the point of discussion, although the pandemi…
Morrison County’s COVID-19 cases have been on the rise during the past month, keeping in line with the state and nation as a whole.
Carver County Public Health has announced the operation of the Lake Waconia Event Center every Wednesday from 4-7 p.m. through May for COVID-19 testing operations.
COVID-19 trends remained in contrast for Morrison County in comparison to what has been seen statewide and nationally for the third week in a row, April 15 - 21.
The transmission of COVID-19 remained about the same in Morrison County during the week of April 8 - 14 as it had been during the previous seven-day period.
The number of COVID-19 cases were up slightly in Morrison County during the past week.
Morrison County Public Health reported only 21 active cases of COVID-19 within the county, as of Thursday.
The Princeton boys basketball team was able to get past Becker, by a 77-67 score to punch their ticket to the Minnesota State High School League's Class AAA State Tournament.
One Morrison County resident died and one other was hospitalized, during the week of March 11 - 17, due to COVID-19.
If you visit or have business to conduct in a Hennepin County building, you can leave your masks at home.
While the COVID-19 pandemic consumed considerable health care attention and nearly 60 percent of patient beds at Ridgeview Hospital in recent months, the Waconia-based regional medical provider also delivered considerable other services over the past year.
The past two years at Bridging have been bumpier than a trip down a ski hill on a mattress.
Even as case counts continued to plummet, Morrison County reached a sobering milestone in regard to COVID-19 during the past week.
The ISD 110 school board took a look at the numbers at their work session last Monday, Feb. 14 – enrollment numbers, federal relief dollar numbers and COVID-19 numbers.
As the COVID-19 case numbers continue to drop across the country, state and county level, area school districts continue to adapt their mitigation efforts.
COVID-19 numbers were down across the board, last week.
Morrison County continued to head in the right direction in terms of COVID-19 during the week of Feb. 11 - Feb. 17.
Masks will no longer be required starting on Tuesday, Feb. 22 for students at Orono Public Schools.
After a receiving a recommendation by Edina Superintendent Stacie Stanley to adjust COVID-19 mitigation measures, the Edina School Board voted unanimously Feb. 14 to revoke the district’s universal mask mandate in place of a “strongly recommended” masking policy.
Morrison County Health and Human Services (HHS) Director Brad Vold couldn’t help but see the irony in what he told the Morrison County Board of Commissioners regarding COVID-19, Tuesday.
Carver County has added more than 4,600 new COVID-19 cases to its cumulative caseload since the first of the year, according to data from the Minnesota Department of Health.
COVID-19 cases were down slightly last week after a big surge during the last week in January, but hospitalizations and deaths were back up in Morrison County.
Morrison County had its worst week yet in COVID-19 infections since the beginning of the Omicron surge.
Several community vaccination clinics are being held throughout Hennepin County as eligibility expands for certain ages and as the COVID-19 omicron variant surges across the state.
Following a U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this month, the city of Edina is not planning to implement a vaccine-or-testing policy for its employees.
The city of Edina, in partnership with Bloomington Public Health and Homeland Health Specialists, will host a free vaccination clinic 2-7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 28, at Braemar Golf Course, according to a news release.
The Westonka school district is extending some COVID-19 mitigation measures at buildings in the district, and adding some buildings to the list of facilities under the COVID-19 mitigation plan, according to the district.
For approximately three days, the Orono school district had a COVID-19 vaccination, testing and face-covering policy for employees.
The Watertown-Mayer school board spent a considerable amount of time discussing whether or not to approve a vaccination, testing, and face-covering policy at its meeting on Jan. 11 in order to comply with the COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) issued by the f…
Case numbers have been doubling every 1.5 to 3 days; peak expected to be reached soon
Mercy Hospital patient from Buffalo transferred to Texas hospital
Morrison County Public Health Director Brad Vold told the Board of Commissioners, Tuesday, that COVID-19 numbers are starting to surge again.
Determining it’s not feasible to enact a new mask mandate in response to the recent increase in COVID-19 infections, the Bloomington City Council chose instead to approve a resolution encouraging the community to follow safety guidance.
The pace of new infections among Edina Schools’ students has been rapid following winter break.
With COVID-19 infection rates surging in Edina, the city has established temporary safety measures to curb the spread of the virus.
Morrison County experienced a major spike in COVID-19 cases during the past week.
Oak Grove resident Nick Saggerson didn’t have COVID-19, but he was impacted by the unusually high number of patients in Mercy Hospital’s Coon Rapids emergency room this week as the omicron variant of the novel coronavirus swept the state.
Westonka schools are stepping up COVID-19 mitigation measures in the district after noting a sharp uptick in cases and a spike in staff shortages, according to district officials.
The Anoka-Hennepin School District will continue a districtwide mask mandate in elementary schools due to high absence rates among students and staff as the omicron variant of the novel coronavirus surges in Minnesota.
A citywide mask mandate will go into effect in the city of Golden Valley Thursday evening. The Golden Valley City Council opted to pass the mandate and declare a local emergency in a special meeting Jan. 11.
Effects of the COVID-19 Omicron variant are being felt pretty much everywhere across the state and nation - and lately, in the Waconia school district.
Morrison County Public Health reported three more deaths and eight new hospitalizations during the eight-day period of Dec. 30, 2021 - Jan. 6.
