🌱 Patch AM: How a Shakopee hockey showcase helps power Shannon’s lasting legacy

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In today's newsletter:

• How a Shakopee hockey showcase helps power Shannon’s lasting legacy
• Why a Shakopee Amazon warehouse sold for nearly $100 million
• Why a North Dakota dealer is headed to Shakopee’s women’s prison

Also on today's calendar: 2026 U.S. AIR FORCE SNOCROSS NATIONAL and 1 more event.

Today's riddle: I think I’ll wear only one boot today. 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Colder with a little snow, with a high of 27 and low of -1 degrees. ⛄️ Brr!
• Thursday: Partly sunny and colder, temps: high: 13, low: 7.
• Friday: Partly sunny and cold, with a high of 11 and low of 7 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Keeping Shannon's spirit alive: Dan and Jennifer O'Hara are the 2025 PB Sports People of the Year (postbulletin.com) — Shakopee took a turn in the spotlight when Hockey Day Minnesota 2025 came to Valleyfair, where Dan and Jennifer O’Hara shared their daughter Shannon’s legacy and foundation work. Their nonprofit has turned community support into hundreds of scholarships and major donations for brain tumor research, with bright lime-green gear and statewide hockey events keeping Shannon’s spirit visible across Minnesota.
   

• Top Twin Cities industrial property sales of 2025 (finance-commerce.com) — A massive Amazon fulfillment center in Shakopee sold this year for $99.5 million, making it the highest-priced industrial property deal in the Twin Cities market. The 840,000-square-foot warehouse changed hands at a discount from its 2020 sale price, reflecting shifting expectations for online retail distribution while underscoring Shakopee’s importance in the region’s logistics economy.
   

• Grand Forks woman sentenced to 86 months for involvement in fatal fentanyl overdose (grandforksherald.com) — A Grand Forks woman has been sentenced to more than seven years at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Shakopee after pleading guilty to third-degree murder for supplying fentanyl in a fatal East Grand Forks overdose. She remains in custody with credit for time served, while another woman also faces related murder charges tied to the same incident.
   

📸 Around Shakopee

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Shakopee

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★ Featured events ★

Wednesday December 31

• S.O.B.s at Turtles
  Turtle's Bar & Grill, 132 1st Ave E, Shakopee
  7:00 pm

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Other local events

Saturday January 3

• Shakopee Library's Beans & Books at the Shakopee Brewhall
  Shakopee Brewhall , 124 1st Ave E , Shakopee
  9:00 am

Wednesday January 7

• Bound by Books
  Belle Plaine Library
  4:00 pm

Friday January 9

• 2026 U.S. AIR FORCE SNOCROSS NATIONAL
  Canterbury Park , 1100 Canterbury Rd , Shakopee
  12:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Wednesday December 31

• Family New Year’s Eve
  Edinborough Park , 7700 York Ave S , Edina
  10:00 am
• Stick and Puck
  Burnsville Calendar , 251 Civic Center Parkway , Burnsville
  11:00 am
• Noon Year's Eve
  Eden Prairie Library , 565 Prairie Center Drive , Eden Prairie
  11:00 am
• Pinstripes Noon Years Eve Party! - Edina, MN
  Pinstripes , 3849 Gallagher Dr , Edina
  11:00 am
• Public Skating
  Burnsville Calendar , 251 Civic Center Parkway , Burnsville
  11:00 am
• Noon Year's Eve Party
  Club Prior , 16210 Eagle Creek Ave SE , Prior Lake
  11:00 am
• Noon Year's Eve Celebration
  Chaska Public Library , Children's area , Chaska
  11:30 am
• City Offices Closed
  City of Excelsior Calendar Excelsior, MN 55331
  12:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Free food thru 12/31 at Carver County libraries.
  5 pics for details. Share with those in need, or pick up a bag for them if they don’t drive. (Nextdoor Pheasant Run)
• Looking for recommendations on contractors to finish a basement.
  Framing, electrical, drywall, flooring, ceiling, painting. Do you have company you loved? Let me know your recs! Thanks! (Nextdoor Ridgeview Estates)

• Sam's Club posted a job opening for (USA) Sam's Custodian in Shakopee. Apply here.
• Indrotec, a DBA of IG, Inc. posted a job opening for Shipping Associate in Shakopee. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Shakopee here.

🗞 Nearby News

Prior Lake

• The 20 most affordable cities in Minnesota to buy a house (knsiradio.com)

Eden Prairie

• Ancient tools, long way home - Eden Prairie Local News (eplocalnews.org)
• Trading cards spark Eden Prairie Target theft charge (eplocalnews.org)
• Space invaders (eplocalnews.org)

Minnetonka

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: I heard there’s only a 50 percent chance of snow.
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