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Vintage Base Ball Coming to School House Fall Festival

The Rochester Roosters Base Ball Club has challenged West Concord residents to a game of Base Ball. That’s right, Base Ball, as baseball was known in 1860. The match will take place at West Concord’s ball field on September18, at the Schoolhouse Fall Festival, featuring nearly 30 vendors, three...

Burned Out Businesses Find New Home in Kasson

Recovering from a fire and losing everything their businesses had, three tenants of 1760 Millwork Manufacturing in Kasson are moving on and regrouping. Daisy Mae, Cherished Antiques and TG’s Recreated teamed together in the Millwork building, which went up in flames on August 26 from spontaneous...

K-M soccer teams score wins

Kasson-Mantorville’s boys and girls soccer teams both scored wins in matches last week. SOCCER BOYS DEFUSE BOMBERS Kasson-Mantorville’s boys soccer bunch traveled to Cannon Falls last Tuesday, August 31, for a showdown with the Bombers. Emerging with a 3-0 victory, the KoMets were relentless in...

Owen Hoegh came back to old school to teach, coach

Owen Hoegh was born in Austin, Tex., and along with his two younger siblings, moved to Byron while he was in the fifth grade as his dad was transferred by IBM. Owen participated in football, basketball, and baseball as well as band, choir, and school musicals. One of his special memories is that he...

Dodge County’s fairgrounds hosts the big rigs this weekend during the Big Iron Classic on Saturday.

Big Iron Classic is ‘half the lights of Vegas and twice the fun’

With more than 700 trucks rolling in and an expected attendance of 20,000, the Big Iron Classic in Kasson this weekend, September 10-11 is an event worth checking out. “It’s a pretty big blow out,” said Jim Finn, organizer of the event, which dates back to September of 2000. “I have a feeling we...

Marigold Days returns to Mantorville for a weekend of fun

Marigold Days returns to Mantorville this weekend for its 2021 installment of all the old favorites. Marigold Days began 56 years ago with the humble marigold, a hearty and colorful little flower native to the Americas. What began as a flower show to promote the planting of marigolds in Mantorville...

Highway 14 still on target for November opening

Highway 14 construction is on track to open the highway to the public in November, Minnesota Department of Transportation officials said last week. “The contractor indicates there will be traffic on the new route in November,” said Mike Dougherty, communications director for MnDOT’s District 6. The...

Area volleyball, soccer teams begin new season

Byron soccer boys start season with hard-fought loss Byron boys traveled to Two Rivers High School (formerly Sibley High School) on Saturday afternoon, August 28, to open the season, after rain washed out the previous Thursday night game. The game started fairly uneventfully, until seven minutes in...

Art Raske spoke of his story of spending World War II in Germany before finally returning to the United States in 1952.

Raske family finally back in U.S.

(Editor’s Note: Arthur Raske has been a resident of Kasson since 2008. As a very young child he found himself caught up in an international conflict. A family visit to see his grandparents in in 1939 turned into a multi-year stay in Nazi Germany and a harrowing escape from East to West Germany...

Cause of Kasson fire still unknown

On August 25, a fire hit businesses in Kasson, with Fire Chief Joe Fitch saying the bulk of the damage was to the property and equipment inside the building at 301 5th St. SE. The call for service came in at 9:13 p.m., he said, and no injuries were reported. Businesses affected were Daisy Mae...