Motorists will encounter delays and a detour when Highway 101 closes at the railroad crossing just north of Highway 5 in Chanhassen beginning at 9 a.m. on Tuesday. Highway 101 will reopen by 3 p.m. on Friday.

Forrest and Liping Adams welcomed a baby girl, Anika, into the world at 3:31 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 23, in Fairview Southdale Hospital. She was 7 pounds, 7 ounces, and 20 ½ inches tall. Big sister Karissa, 9, is very excited. So are Mom and Dad. Liping and Anika are scheduled to come home on Aug. 25.

August 12, 2010 - Thursday
District 112 School Board Candidate

After much consideration, I have decided to run for a school board seat with the Eastern Carver County Schools (District 112) rather than seek a second term on the Chanhassen City Council.

By Forrest Adams

In the hotly contested Carver County Commissioner races, unofficial primary voting results have narrowed down the field to four candidates – incumbents versus challengers.

Brian and Jenna Rodenz of Chanhassen announce the birth of their daughter, Julia Marie, at 12:25 p.m. June 22, 2010, in St. Francis Regional Medical Center, Shakopee.

The baby girl weighed 8 pounds, 13 ounces and was 21 1/4 inches long. She has blue eyes and brown hair.

Grandparents are Darrell and Sandy Rodenz of Eden Prairie and Tony and Claire Robling of Jordan. Great-grandparents are Bob and Celine Scholer of Chanhassen and Al and Mary Klingelhutz of Chanhassen.
She was baptized July 11 at St. Hubert’s Catholic Church in Chanhassen

He sold cocaine in Chaska, and now he's in jail. Marco Antonio Sosa-Ramierez, 32, of Eagan, was sent to prison for 74 months after a jury found him guilty of possessing and selling cocaine in Chaska on Jan. 5, 2010.

He broke a leg, and it had nothing to do with his superb acting.

A male patron to the Chanhassen Dinner Theater on Sunday afternoon apparently ran into one of the wooden support beams holding up the theater entrance. It broke, and the canopy over the entrance came down, said theater spokesperson Kris Howland.

Multiple law enforcement agents and Chanhassen Fire Chief Roger Smallbeck responded to the scene, though nobody was injured.

The 2010 Chaska River City Days Triathlon went a lot like the 2009
edition.

But just a little bit faster.

A pair of Chaskans repeated as overall champions on a sunsplashed
Saturday morning at Firemans Park, in the kickoff event for the upcoming
River City Days festivities.

Chaska native Nick Madrinich repeated as the men's overall champion,
finishing a second faster than his 1:10 time last year.

Money Magazine has ranked Eden Prairie the No. 1 large city to live in this year.

According to the ranking:

Not only is it family-friendly, it has a dynamite economy too.

At 5.1%, its unemployment rate is nearly one percentage point below the county rate and more than four points below the national average. It helps when you've got 50,000 jobs right in town.