City officials and business owners in most small towns across the country are interested in keeping the business they have and bringing more business to town. Members of the Kasson Economic Development Authority visited with the sales director of a company that specializes in those very things; Buxton out of Ft. Worth, Texas. 
The group met Feb 7 and Sales Director Cody Guntenson of Buxton attended the meeting by phone.

A group of women of the West Concord Trinity Lutheran Church recently donated 18 baby bundles to the Dodge County Public Health Department. 
The group gets together monthly and putting together the baby bundles is just one of the projects they work on.

Smaller car dealerships are falling by the wayside and often replaced with corporate ownership. But a reversal of that trend is happening in Steele County as a family dealer with strong small town connections takes over a prominent dealership.

What’s a man to do about a love of cars but is not able to have real ones?
That answer is simple. Collect model cars. Just ask Ray Six of West Concord. 
Ever since Six wrote a paper in high school about the history of automobiles, he’s been hooked on cars.

The Kasson Domino’s Pizza restaurant is back to full capacity and then some following a renovation that has been ongoing for the last few months.
According to Domino’s franchise owner, Marty (Paul) Gritz, the updated building is drastically more efficient and adheres to all current Domino’s franchise guidelines.

One of the busiest places in Kasson early on weekday mornings is the Just Like Home School Age Children Care building at 304 W. Main St. - the old Folkestad building.
The facility is licensed to care for 120 children before and after school and on snow days, holidays and during the summer.
All the students range in age from kindergarten through sixth grade.