Carver County News

By Unsie Zuege A Carver County woman is hoping her land will be recognized as an important archeological site and that it will be preserved under the permanent protection of the Archeological Conservancy.

Thieves in Carver County have targeted an experimental grapevine that could lead to a new type of wine.

By Mark W. Olson What should people get out of the new veterans exhibit? Carver County Historical Society curator Larry Hutchings, taking a brief break from his work bench, ponders the question before replying that he hopes it a oecomforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable.a The Veterans Gallery, in the county historical society ...

Someone might be trying to cheat their way to creating, and profiting off of a new kind of wine.

Faribault County commissioners have voted to freeze the pay of elected officials in 2010 while giving a 3 percent increase to some employees.

Is Mille Lacs County a "high welfare" county, as some county residents have charged during the past few decades? How do you define welfare and the different programs that Mille Lacs County Family Services operates? Leo Vos, director of Mille Lacs County Family Services since 1996 and an employee in that department since 1976, talked to the Mille ...

Submitted by sfiecke on November 2, 2009 - 3:14pm. Voters have the chance to remake the face of city and school government on Tuesday, electing eight to office and determining whether Shakopee schools continue to receive an extra $4.3 million per year from the tax levy.

A garage explosion forced a family from their home in Carver County late Sunday night.

Submitted by Mathias Baden on October 29, 2009 - 11:45am. State Rep. Paul Kohls, R-Victoria, is suspending his campaign for Minnesota governor.

Tattoo artist Dwayne Holt thinks it is deplorable that anyone in Minnesota can open a tattoo parlor and start giving tattoos or piercing navels, noses and other body parts without a state license and no worry of state regulation.

Carver County Commissioner Tom Workman has received an apology from the head of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency over a letter of warning the agency had sent him ordering him to stop commenting on the legality of a septic system at a county-owned facility in Waconia.

A Delano man and a Watertown woman have been arrested in connection with a rash of burglaries in the Watertown and Delano area during the past month, according to Carver County Sheriff Byron 'Bud' Olson.

The Carver County Board has decided to hire not one but two inspectors to examine the controversial septic system at the county-owned Waconia ballroom to see if it is legal.

Police arrested a 24-year-old suspect Thursday in connection with a month-long string of burglaries in Carver, Wright and western Hennepin counties.

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has issued a gag order to Carver County Commissioner Tom Workman, telling him to cease and desist in commenting on the legality of the septic system at the county-owned Waconia ballroom because he is acting too much like a licensed inspector.

Carver County septic system case raises questions about fairness. Last update: October 18, 2009 - 5:14 PM Septic system code compliance may not be the most glamorous of topics, but it's an issue that many Minnesotans grapple with.

Even before the bottom fell out of the economy this year, almost 11 percent of Stearns County's children were living in poverty.

OnBase equals bottom line results for the 2009 RealSolutions winners -- Hyland honors customers at OnBase Training & Technology Conference who use the ECM software suite in new ways to get notable results CLEVELAND, Oct.

More from West Metro For several years, Carver County officials have been trying to force Lowell and Janet Carlson to replace the septic system on their Norwood-Young America farm, finally threatening them with a jail sentence earlier this month if they did not comply.

Bring your items to the Carver County Environmental Center on Friday, Oct. 23, and receive $20 in FREE recycling fees.