Jessica Huang is learning more and more what it’s like to be a young writer. She is a student in the University of Missouri’s Journalism programand recently she wrote a musical with her friend Charlie Title. “The inspiration for the play came from a story my friend told me of her time spent in Madagascar. It’s a love story of a white foreigner that falls in love with a native Madagascaran girl, and as things do, it spirals out of control." She and Title presented the musical at the Chaska Community Theatre on July 19, with members of the Chaska Valley Family Theatre. The video shows excerpts of their musical.

The Chaska River City Days Triathlon attracted nearly 300 athletes to Firemans Park in Chaska on Saturday, July 19, 2008.

Enjoy this selection of photos from the event.

Video by Forrest Adams

Community outreach programs from the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum provide hands-on learning opportunities each summer to inner-city kids in Minneapolis and St. Paul.

The Chaska Cubs amateur baseball team topped Victoria 5-3 on Sunday night at Athletic Park.

An announced crowd of 1,065 enjoyed free food and fine prizes, courtesy of Lenzen Chevrolet of Chaska.

Enjoy this selection of photos from the evening.

The Chaska/Chanhassen American Legion Post 57/580 baseball team won three of five games at the Jim Hanus Memorial Gopher Classic this past weekend.

Chaska/Chan started pool play with a 5-1 loss to Yankton, S.D. on Friday at the Eden Prairie High School field, but came back to whallop St. Louis Park 13-0.

Post 57/580 then topped the Rochester A's 4-1 on Friday and bested Grand Rapids 7-1 on Sunday, as Jeff Pavlovich had a home run and a double.

The grand opening celebration for the final segment of new Highway 212, connecting Eden Prairie to Carver, was held Tuesday afternoon. The roadway will open to drivers on July 14.

Energy, education, technology and healthcare were the topics covered last week by Gov. Tim Pawlenty as he spoke at the eighth-annual IWCO Direct supplier summit in Chanhassen. Watch the video of him talking about energy.

Dead fish floating in water that looks like green pea soup and stinks like a swamp might tell the story of a blue-green algae contamination.