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An incident early Friday morning has led to a lockdown and ultimate early dismissal at Waconia High Schools, according to district officials.
With Thanksgiving done with, it’s time to start thinking about the next round of holidays. With that comes the purchase of a Christmas tree. To help out the community, the NYA Lions Club have worked for years to bring in Christmas trees for locals to pick up throughout Western Carver County.
The city of Cologne has been mulling a major downtown infrastructure project for the better part of the year. Another potential component of that could be railroad crossing improvements.
The Watertown-Mayer girls basketball team got a monster game from Maggie Czinano Dec. 3 when they defeated a Holy Family Catholic team that is coming off of an appearance at state, as Czinano tallied 27 points in the 59-55 win. The junior shot 55 percent from the field and netted a pair of t…
The Waconia girls basketball team had only one game last week, but made the most of it, with 15 players scoring a total of 103 points in the 103-45 victory over Bloomington Jefferson Dec. 5.
When taking on Belle Plaine Dec. 7, the Central girls basketball team overcame an early deficit to keep the game close going into the break.
An incident early Friday morning has led to a lockdown and ultimate early dismissal at Wacon…
With Thanksgiving done with, it’s time to start thinking about the next round of holidays. W…
The city of Cologne has been mulling a major downtown infrastructure project for the better …
By day, Brent Johnson is a marketing and sales manager for a large manufacturing company. By…
Jeri Bowers is a woman passionate about making the lives of others better, of creating feeli…
An incident early Friday morning has led to a lockdown and ultimate early dismissal at Waconia High Schools, according to district officials.
Two people are in custody and facing murder and related charges following the overdose of a man in Waconia, according to the Carver County Sheriff’s Office.
Did you know that Waconia’s fire department is staffed primarily by people who could be your neighbors? People who leave their jobs, families and the comfort of their homes to respond to your emergency?
Advocates for Highway 212 road improvements made their case for additional state funding last Tuesday before the Minnesota Senate’s capital improvement committee.
Waconia Parkway North could be re-open by mid-November. The main thoroughfare on the west end of downtown Waconia has been closed since May for street, sidewalk and trail reconstruction, and sanitary sewer, watermain and storm sewer replacement.
Business
Kellie Sites, who has been the face and voice of the Waconia Chamber of Commerce for more than a dozen years, is departing her post in June 2020.
Coldwell Banker Burnet is pleased to announce the grand opening of its new Waconia office located at 121 W. Main Street, Waconia. Last Tuesday, Nov. 19, local company president Matt Baker, several affiliated agents and staff, and Waconia Chamber of Commerce ambassadors celebrated the opening…
By day, Brent Johnson is a marketing and sales manager for a large manufacturing company. By evening and weekends, he is a budding entrepreneur, operating a virtual/e-commerce business with help from his family out of the basement of their Waconia home.
An incident early Friday morning has led to a lockdown and ultimate early dismissal at Wacon…
Everyone can do something for the community, and Watertown-Mayer Community Learning Center i…
In an effort to support students, no matter what, the staff at Central Elementary School hav…
Sarah Lehrke
About 60 school nutrition services directors from around the state were in Waconia one day l…
To the editor,
To the editor,
Did you know that our state has something called the “Minnesota Homeless Veterans Registry?”
When smoking goes down like gummy bears it’s no surprise that nicotine use among teens is rising at a critical rate.
This editorial is the sixth in a series on issues facing Minnesota’s aging population.
Replacement of leaking, drafty windows.
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