Ruth Tremblay’s fascination with barns came about simply enough.

“I’d always liked barns,” she said. But growing up in Florida, there weren’t a great number of barns to stumble upon. When she moved to Minnesota, though, it was a whole different story.

The smell of kerosene still takes Vernon Wigfield back. Back to Friday nights at the Chaska depot, where he would wait to catch the train back to his home in Carver. He would see a movie at the old Rex Theater and then head over to the depot where there were two lanterns always burning – one to let the train know to stop and another to send it through.

Steve Kingsbury, chair of the Guardian Angels Buildings, Grounds and Gardens Committee, notes the problems regarding the brick façade.

On a recent sunny day, the Rev. Paul Jarvis gave a less-than-sunny assessment of the Guardian Angels Catholic Church exterior.

Former Chaska resident Howard “Howie” Bielke, 78, died on Aug. 2 at St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Shakopee.

Bielke was one of a handful of Chaska and Carver Korean Veterans profiled for a September 2000 Herald article, “50-year-old ‘Forgotten War’ is remembered.”

As an assistant gunner/radio operator, Bielke gave the Herald readers good insight into the life of the infantry soldier. Here is an excerpt from the article:

The Scott Carver Threshers festival took place last weekend in St. Lawrence Township. Here are some videos of just a few of the sights and sounds from the event:

Today, Highway 212 is on the tip of everyone’s tongue.

However, about 100 years ago, everyone would have been talking about the “Yellowstone Trail.”

Before the days when the government plotted the course of roads, a group of small-town South Dakota businessmen spearheaded one of the first transcontinental automobile routes.

The ten most endangered historic places in Minnesota include a Shakopee house.

The Preservation Alliance of Minnesota released its 2008 list today, which includes an abandoned jail, a small-town bank, below-ground resources, and a mid-century Modern icon.

The list, the 15th annual compilation the Alliance has released, profiles the state's most endangered historic sites.

A restaurant, an environmental education center for hunters, a field research office – those are just a few of the reuse options that could keep the historic Gehl-Mittelsted farmhouse from facing the wrecking ball.

“It has to be viable and sustainable,” said Steve Wilmot, architect with the firm doing a reuse study on the building.