The Chaska City Council approved improvements to Hundertmark Road Monday night as part of the future Ridgeview Medical Center emergency facility. The free-standing emergency room, which will be located at the northeast corner of Highway 41 and Hundertmark Road, is expected to increase traffic dramatically when constructed, necessitating the roadway improvements.

Shakopee made it a regular-season sweep over the Chaska Cubs with a 5-4 victory Thursday night at Athletic Park.

The Cubs had ace righthander Ryan Seifert going great guns, but the Indians made the most of their five hits in the game.

The Cubs scored in the first inning, but that was all Shakopee lefty Tim Piechowski allowed over eight innings.

Will one night of drinking really affect my weight loss plan?

Everybody likes to throw a few back with friends - some a little more than others ;-)

But, if you’re on a weight loss plan one night of drinking can really set you back. The obvious reason is the excessive calorie consumption, but it goes way beyond that.

Check this out.

How Alcohol Makes You Fat

-Alcohol first passes through the esophagus as it travels to your stomach.

-From there, 20% of the alcohol is absorbed immediately by your bloodstream.

The new section of Highway 212 from Eden Prairie to Chaska will get beautified next spring thanks to $750,000 in federal stimulus dollars.

Eden Prairie, Chanhassen and Chaska will each get $250,000 worth of landscaping improvements along the new corridor.

By Mike Huang

What would I do if I wanted to open a restaurant in downtown Chaska?

First, I’d do some research. A long time ago, I learned that selling the same thing as the next guy would only be an uphill battle.

A few years ago, New York Times movie reviewer A.O. Scott wrote a eulogy for Charles Bronson.

Scott noted that “Mr. Bronson mixed it up with other roughneck character actors like Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine and George Kennedy, whose faces and physiques suggest that the 1960s were good years to be an ugly man in Hollywood.”

“Ugly” is a bad word, but I know what Scott was getting at. And his line came to mind when I was watching “Public Enemies” yesterday.

The Chaska Police Department released this statement pertaining to the emergency sirens that went off this morning:

"The outdoor warning sirens were activated in Chaska moments ago. This was a false alarm. The county is aware…

"The City of Chanhassen is in control of a remote device, which activates the sirens; indeed, the sirens were activated without a legitimate cause. Chanhassen wrongly activated the warning sirens for the cities of Chaska, Victoria, and Watertown. Perplexingly the sirens did not sound in Chanhassen.

Justin Yule is a local Chaska personal trainer, fitness boot camp instructor and fitness author. Today he shares his top 10 Nutrition Tips for Fat Loss & Fitness.

The results are in. According to The National Weight Control Registry found that 89% of people who lost 30 or more pounds and kept it off for at least one year accomplished their goals through a combination of diet and exercise. In that study only 10% succeeded using diet alone, and only 1% using exercise alone.

Computer science, rocketry, even robots – there’s no question about it, this isn’t your grandma’s 4-H.

And while members of the Sugar City 4-H in Chaska are markedly different from their early predecessors, this year they will pay homage to those that came before them.

Chaska’s 4-Hers are looking for memories and memorabilia from the club’s 75-year history. They are hoping to put together a scrapbook and a short film with the materials in order to celebrate the group’s past.

A project to turn the C.P. Klein mansion on the corner of Fourth and Walnut streets into a fine dining restaurant is back on, after some successful brainstorming to make the financing work.

Developers Norm and Jan Kraus gave the council an update at its meeting Monday night. Things looked bleak for the restaurant recently with financing problems that were forcing the city to begin considering other options for the historic building’s reuse.

Jack Hendrickson, 66, of Carver, died Saturday, June 27, 2009.

Funeral service is Thursday, July 2, at 11 a.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 300 Fourth Street East, Chaska. Visitation is Wednesday, July 1, from 4-8 p.m. at Huber Funeral Home, Excelsior. Visitation is also one hour prior to the service at the church on Thursday.

Huber Funeral & Cremation Services Excelsior Chapel, 952-474-9595. www.huberfunerals.com

This holiday weekend will be full of patriotic fun and events on Saturday. 

The Jonathan Association homeowners group will kick off its Fourth of July Saturday morning with a 5K fun run/walk on Jonathan trails, with registration at 8 a.m. and the run kicking off at 8:30 a.m.

Are you interested in reading the public notices published in the July 2, 2009 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 .pdf’s that can be opened with Adobe Acrobat.

In this week’s Rapid Fat Loss & Fitness Boot Camp Workout we’re going with 10-minute superset circuits.

A superset is a training method where you perform two exercises back to back with little to no rest. Supersets can be done with two exercises that target the same muscle group (i.e., chest) or opposing muscle groups (i.e., chest & back). However, one of the most effective ways to perform supersets, specifically for fat loss and total fitness, is to alternate between upper and lower body muscle groups (i.e., chest & hamstrings or back & quads).

There are no bullet holes left as proof that notorious gangster John Dillinger once inhabited Apartment 303 at the Lincoln Court Apartments in St. Paul.

Seventy-five years after his 12-day stint at the corner of Lexington Parkway and Lincoln Avenue, there is only the occasional stop, by local gangster tours, to serve as a reminder that the quiet building in the tree-lined neighborhood was once the site of an infamous shootout between Dillinger and the FBI. 

The following obituaries are from the July 2, 2009 print edition of the Chaska Herald newspaper:

Lynn Stephens-Headley, of Richmond, Va. and formerly of Shakopee, passed away suddenly Thursday, June 25, 2009.

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 June 22 – June 28:

 June 22

At 2:22 p.m., responded to the intersection of Highway 7/ Leslee Curve in Chanhassen where a vehicle hit a tree. A woman was cited for inattentive driving.

Lynn Stephens-Headley, of Richmond, Va. and formerly of Shakopee, passed away suddenly on Thursday, June 25, 2009.

Her memorial service will be held July 11 at the Presbyterian Church of Old Greenwhich, Conn. In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred to the family or donors choice.

By Richard Crawford

Carver County Commissioner Tom Workman took matters into his own hands Monday morning in an effort to satisfy lingering questions he has about a septic system on county-owned property in Waconia.