Brick mason Patrick Sieben recently began a project to restore up to 225,000 brick on Guardian Angels Catholic church, it's adjoining friary, and garden walls.

The fifth annual Hooked on Books wrapped up on Saturday. Feb. 6 at Chaska High School. The literacy and arts fair includes book readings, author visits, book sales, and crafts.

With the sun shining and the temperatures more tolerable than in previous years, the masses flocked to Firemen’s Lake for the 53rd Annual Chaska Fire Department Fishing Contest.

Firemen spent the morning drilling 1,500 holes around the lake. Most of those holes would later be occupied by the 1,200 in attendance at the two-hour event.

A team of Southwest Newspapers reporters are covering the gubernatorial debate from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Bloomington. The Uptake will broadcast the debate live:

A small crowd gathered at City Square Park last Sunday for the the fifth annual Multicultural Holiday Celebration, sponsored by the city’s Human Rights Commission and Dunn Bros. The night featured music by Chaska High School’s chamber singers, discussion of various holiday traditions around the world, a visit from Santa and a piñata.

Chaska Middle School West hosted its annual Veterans Day program on Wednesday. The event began with a flag raising, gun salute and taps in front of the school.

In today's print edition of the Chaska Herald, we chronicle third-generation milkman Matt Heger. Follow Matt on his early morning route in the video below. He rises around 2 a.m. and finishes in the mid-afternoon.

Guardian Angels Catholic Church’s first AngelFest attracted hundreds of people last Saturday.

Colorful costumes, music and dancing were the order of the day during the Nordic Music Festival last Saturday afternoon at Lake Waconia Regional Park.