Wayzata News

A 59-year-old Wayzata man was killed Thursday in northern Minnesota when a tree fell and hit him, according to the Lake County Sheriff's Office.

Josh Scanlon, 21, is back at the family outdoor business nine years after an accident left him in a wheelchair.

As part of the "Trojans Give Back" campaign, 28 football players from Wayzata High School pulled, chopped and tackled buckthorn, an invasive species in Minnesota, on Saturday, May 11.

Wayzata police wrote the third-highest number of speeding tickets per capita among cities in the Twin Cities metro area, according to a report on WCCO-TV . That year, Wayzata police wrote 646 tickets for excessive speed.

Friday and next Sunday: These SPCO concerts are made of two exquisite pairings. The first is of two French masterpieces, by Arthur Honegger and Camille Saint-Sans. Honegger's "Summer Pastoral" is an early work, inspired by a 1920 vacation in the Swiss Alps.

Minnesota's walleye season officially opens at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, and forecasts call for clear skies with morning lows in the 30s and afternoon highs in the 50s.

The water quality of most Lake Minnetonka bays ticked up a notch or remained static in the last year, according to data released today by the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District , and graded as generally good or better in most areas.

Anti-Cargill stickers were placed on stop signs in several different areas of Wayzata over the weekend.

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There are officially two Republicans who have stepped forward in a quest to be the GOP challenger to Governor Mark Dayton in 2014.

Flavorful Fish Dishes WHEN: 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 22 at Falcon Ridge Middle School in Apple Valley.

The Freshwater Society, which since the 1960s has called when the ice is out for the season, declared the lake ice-free as of about 1:30 a.m. Thursday, May 2. It was the third time in a nearly complete 158-year record that ice-out has occurred on that date.

Reservations appreciated at rsvp@thecobrasociety.com, or 612-338-1620. 200 W. Wayzata Blvd., Wayzata.

An aide at a Long Lake assisted-living center took powerful painkillers from several ailing clients and was caught by Wayzata police officers with two of the pills in her bra, according to two investigations.

The following are a selection of notable incidents responded to by the Wayzata Police Department between April 24 and April 29.

As the weather turns warmer , maybe it's a good time to take the top down, enjoy a burger and a malt and take in a warm evening at a drive-in? Everyone remembers the classic drive-in restaurant.

A new Marshalls department store, stocked with natty school clothes, should arrive as a Bay City Mall shopping option by August.

Now that spring is here, remember to check for ticks. "An adult female deer tick was found in sec 9 of Minnetonka today ," Metropolitan Mosquito Control District reported on Facebook Friday.

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Blue Water Theatre Company of Wayzata has announced their second annual summer elementary school theatre camp for students currently in grades three, four and five .