West Concord’s City Council last week officially accepted the resignation of City Administrator Kay Hanson. Council members also received the 2015 auditor’s report that showed that the Municipal Liquor Store again finished the year with negative numbers.

Absolutely crazy.
That’s the reaction of most people as they digested what took place in Dodge County over the weekend. 
A wild police chase involving a stolen cement mixer truck in the Kasson and Dodge Center area has folks buzzing all across the country. 

 Diane
Berg, 68,
of Cresco,
Iowa died
Friday,
March 12,
2016 in
Yuma, Arizona.
Diane was born January 19,
1948 in Rochester to Donald
and Mildred (Simmons) Jones.
Diane graduated from Kasson-
Mantorville High School
in 1966. She then attended
Rochester State Junior College
where she received an Associate
of Arts Degree in 1968. It was

 Dolores
A. Carrico,
86, former
Kasson
resident
passed away
peacefully
in the loving
arms of her
family on Tuesday, March 8 at
Meadows on Fairview, Wyoming,
Minnesota where she was
a resident for over seven years.
Dolores was born December
6, 1929 in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
She grew up in Rochester and
Kasson with her identical twin

 Harold
Solberg, 77,
of Kasson
passed away
March 28,
2016 at
St. Mary’s
Hospital,
Rochester,
MN.
He was born June 1, 1938
to Adolf and Alice Solberg in
Rushford. He served in the U.S.
Army from 1956-1958. On
November 13, 1960 he married
Janet Iverson in rural Kasson.
They had four children who
they raised in Kasson.

A wild police chase involving a stolen cement truck ended without any injuries Sunday afternoon in Dodge Center.
Deputies took an unidentified boy into custody after the hour-long chase through residential streets in Dodge Center and county roads between Dodge Center and Kasson. 

 
 Overall, the massive construction project that the Kasson-Mantorville School District took on is right on time and remains under budget. 

 
 Police in Kasson continue to investigate a report of an attempted abduction in the northeast part of town involving a 10-year-old girl on her way home from school. 
The alleged incident took place March 10 around 3:50 p.m. east of K-M Schools near the bicycle paths along 16th Street. There was a 10 minute delay in reporting the incident, according to police chief Ken Schuck. 

Members of the Triton High School choirs took part in the Solo and Ensemble contest at Riverland Community College in Austin last week.