There are only 112 days remaining in 2020. Many can’t wait.
Pending something catastrophic or a dramatic resurgence of COVID-19, the New Year, 2021, will be a true time of celebration. Needless to say, 2020 has been a nightmarish year for most folks in Minnesota and Dodge County, specifically.

The Byron boys soccer team had a good week beating Cannon Falls 4-2 on Monday and Lourdes 2-0 on Thursday in Hiawatha Valley League action. 

Although the annual Marigold Days celebration was cancelled earlier this summer by the Marigold Days Committee because of the COVID-19 pandemic, that doesn’t mean there will not be some activities in town this weekend.
Mantorville Chamber members have put together a Mantorville Days celebration that will start Thursday and continue through Sunday on a reduced scale.

Jim and Crystal Whitmarsh both grew up in Michigan but moved to Kasson in 2017. Jim attended Michigan Tech University, majoring in mechanical engineering and also received an MBA there, while Crystal attended Finlandia University in Hancock, Mich. Both schools are located in the Keweenaw Peninsula of Upper Michigan.

Last Friday evening as most folks were heading home for the weekend and happened to pass Daniel’s Restaurant on South Mantorville Ave., they may have been surprised with the large number of cars that had jammed the parking lot at Daniel’s.
It was saying goodbye to the Daniels family, owners for 42 years of the breakfast, lunch and dinner restaurant.

Patrick Dugall Chase, 73, of Mantorville, died Monday, Aug. 24, 2020 at Mayo Clinic Hospital St. Marys Campus in Rochester.
Pat was born on April 1, 1947 to Charles and Marie (Doleshall) Chase in Winslow, AZ.  On April 1, 2006 he married Dianne Welke and she survives him. 

Area youth anglers are headed to the state championship next month, as part of the Kasson-Mantorville Youth Fishing Team’s 2020 season.
Twenty-one Kasson-Mantorville students in grades 6-12 participate on the co-ed team. The team will take six anglers to the state tournament; those students earned their spot on the state team based on their scores from summer tournaments.