Submitted by David Schueller on September 3, 2010 - 1:03pm. A press release from the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge: Come walk with a ranger at the Chaska unit of Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge this coming Saturday.

Water samples from wells in Carver and McLeod counties will be collected over the next two months to get information on groundwater chemistry.

A guy in an Escalade at the Super America in Long Lake last week refused to affirmatively say he wasn't Kiefer Sutherland, averring only: "I get that a lot." More from C.J. Evan Kail' s got a huge problem with the casting call for "Victim 1," a low-budget horror movie he's co-written: How's he going to stop his mom from auditioning? Kail's mother ...

Seven weatherization agencies in Minnesota will receive $6 million in federal stimulus funds to use for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects, the U.S. Department of Energy said this week.

Sam Elliott, 8, of Carver, prepares to knock down the pins during a bowling game at Chaska's annual Touch a Truck event on Thursday evening.A Hundreds of parents and youngsters crowded the Chaska Community Center parking lot to get a close look at the city's street sweepers, fire trucks and other machines.

U.S. Sen. Al Franken today announcedA $23,666,000 in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding for three broadband projects in Minnesota.

Patrick and Lisa Schatz of Belle Plaine announce the birth of their daughter, Emma Ann Schatz, at 5:24 p.m. on July 7, 2010, in St Francis Regional Medical Center in Shakopee.

The Carver/Scott Master Gardener Program of the University of Minnesota Extension is now accepting applications for interns for the year 2011

According to a University of Minnesota Extension, Carver County press release, Master Gardener is a title conferred by the University of Minnesota Extension Service to men and women who have fulfilled two requirements:A

1) They have successfully completed 50 hours of Master Gardener classroom instruction in horticulture;A

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The Carver County deputies assigned to the cities of Chanhassen, Victoria, and Carver and the townships of Laketown, San Francisco and Dahlgren responded to the following calls from July 26 to Aug 1. July 26 At 5:50 p.m., responded to 300 block, Lake Drive East, Chanhassen, for report of fradulent use of prescription.