Saturday, June 3, 2023

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May 16, 1973 Folmer Carlsen, Publisher Dedication of Carillon At St. John’s A Verdin Carillon will be dedicated at St. John’s this Sunday, May 20th. The Carillon bells and chimes play hymns and ring each day at 12 noon and 6 p.m. The Carillon was given to St. John’s, intended also for the benefit...
Question: Now that spring if finally here I am seeing a lot of tractors, sprayers and other large equipment on the highways. A number of them didn’t appear to be using their flashing lights, slow moving signs and escort when required. I am concerned this could cause a bad crash. Can you write about...
Note: The Police Blotter often contains sensitive information. With this in mind, block numbers deliberately do not indicate a specific address. Court newsDodge County The following case was heard in Dodge County District Court the week of April 30 with Judge Kevin Siefken presiding: Jacob L....
TREE CITY USA! Photo by Wayne Hendrickson Kasson city officials and members of the Kasson-Mantorville Lions Club planted trees at Meadowland Park in northeast Kasson last Friday as part of the Arbor Day Celebration. The city is a participant in the Arbor Day Foundation’s Tree City USA program. The trees were purchased by the Lions Club.
Just a week after Earth Day, local cities celebrated Arbor Day last Friday with the planting of trees as part of the Tree City USA program. In Kasson, the tree planting took place at Meadowland Park in the northeast portion of the city. Kasson-Mantorville fourth graders were on hand and helped Ben...
Submitted Photo Hayfield Citizen of the Year Kerry Fjerstad and volunteers at the community food shelf.
Kerry Fjerstad was totally duped into thinking her brother-in-law Rich Fjerstad was set to win the Hayfield Citizen of the Year Award when she attended a February Chamber of Commerce banquet. Then she discovered she was actually the one being honored. “I thought we were there for the award to go to...
Photo by Karen M. Jorgensen Kasson-Mantorville School Resource Officer and D.A.R.E. Instructor Jesse Kasal presents a certificate to Xander Urbanek for completing the D.A.R.E. program and also for placing in the top 20 Minnesota students in the D.A.R.E. poster contest sponsored by the Minnesota Twins.
Just over 170 fifth graders at Kasson-Mantorville Middle School filed into the school gym last Friday afternoon to celebrate their graduation from the school’s Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E) program. In addition to the students, parents and family members were also on hand for the...
Submitted Photo Yvonne Braun and her four sons, Jeff, Nathan. Michael and Ben.
Yvonne (Hemann) Braun grew up on a farm outside of Stacyville, Iowa, with 14 siblings, but her oldest brother passed away in 1951 when he was one years old. Yvonne was the twelfth child and was born on July fourth so her mother called her their little firecracker! They crop-farmed and milked cows...
BAPTIST Anchor of Hope Church203 E. Main St., Dodge CenterA Seventh Day BaptistCongregationanchorofhopesdb.com10 a.m. Saturday,Worship Service11:30 a.m. Sabbath Schooldodgecentersdb.org• 374-6755 First Baptist Church304 4th St. NW, KassonSunday, May 79:30 a.m. Sunday School10:30 a.m. Morning...
Kasson Church of Christ recently has done some refreshing of existing ministry and is preparing for new ministry endeavors. “Jesus said the greatest command is to love the Lord and secondly to love our neighbors as ourselves, so we have chosen to rebrand as the Love Your Neighbor Center,” church...
Community garden plots are available in Dodge County again this spring, according to the Dodge County Extension Office. The plots are located in Dodge Center, Kasson, and West Concord as part of the Dodge County Master Gardener Volunteer Program. The benefits of having one’s own garden spot is...

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