Thursday, March 28, 2024

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The New York Rangers in National Hockey League’s draft selected Kasson’s Brody Lamb, a member of the Dodge County Wildcats, on July 24. Lamb was picked 104th overall. New York acquired Lamb by trading with the LA Kings for Brendan Lemieux on March 27, 2021. Lamb, a senior in 2021-22 has committed...
Survival Days returned to West Concord last weekend with activities getting under way Thursday evening and concluding Friday afternoon. The Guns (law enforcement) took on the Hoses (fire departments, EMS) Thursday night in a charity softball game. The guns enjoyed a lopsided victory this year and...
Its draw as a Rochester bedroom community has fueled new home construction in Kasson, with Bigelow Homes at work on three subdivisions in town. “We’re all from Kasson-Mantorville,” said developer Tony Bigelow. “It’s where we live now, where we went to high school, and where our kids go to school....
The Hargroves, Rick and Lisa, and their children Kylie and Trevor, are all fans of traveling around on their motorcycles.
Liz (Pape) Harwood has taught band at Kasson-Mantorville for 20 years, touching the lives of hundreds of students. She currently teaches the 5th through 8th-grade bands, drawing on her own life experiences using musical training as a vehicle to develop middle school students into excellent young...
Attendance at the Dodge County Free Fair from July 14- 18 was up substantially, easily surpassing 38,000 people, said fair organizers. “We don’t have a way to measure,” said Marilyn Lermon, president of the Fair Board. “We don’t have a gate entrance fee so people walk in and out. But we definitely...
The Mid-American Renegade Sprint Non Wing Tradition- als made the second of three scheduled appearances at Chateau Speedway in Lansing Friday night. The field put on a caution free night of racing in both the heats and in the feature. With five of the top ten winningest drivers in the various...
Patty Jo Zimmerman Hanson looks out of her ice cream truck. Known throughout the area as Mrs. Patty, she travels Dodge County this summer providing sweet treats to residents.
Once her “It’s a Small World” jingle is cued up, Mrs. Patty of Mrs. Patty’s Sweet Treats pulls her ice cream truck onto the road and starts traipsing through neighborhoods. New to the ice cream truck market this summer, Patty Jo Zimmerman Hanson serves Dodge Center, Kasson, and Mantorville in the...
West Concord’s 36th annual Survival Days celebration gets under way tonight, Thursday, with the Guns vs. Hoses benefit softball game followed by three days of fun activities in West Concord. Highlight of this year’s event will be the Memorial Park Ribbon cutting at 6:30 p.m. Friday. Guns vs. Hoses...
Keegan Leth is a 2017 Kasson-Mantorville grad who participated in soccer, Student Council, and played trumpet in the band. During his junior year, he started the process of filling out online applications for the U.S. military academies. He had a medical evaluation, background checks, and when...
“This is Mike,” says down-to-earth Mike Neubeck, Byron Public Schools new superintendent as he answers his cell phone. Neubeck comes to Byron from Mahtomedi Public Schools, where he served as principal of the middle school for 11 years. Before his stint in the northeast suburb of St. Paul, Neubeck...

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