Most of the world crawled into a hole and pulled the hole in after them when the coronavirus hit the planet with deadly impact.
“I know vaccination requirements are unpopular...My administration has put them in place not to control your life, but to save your life and the lives of others,” said President Joseph R. Biden in comments made last week prior to Christmas.

Christmas is Saturday, Dec. 25. But what is Christmas? It’s a mad dash for retail businesses to end the calendar year with a burst of sales. In some cases, it’s a make or break time of the year.

Weather prognosticators were giving residents in the area a heads up for a snow dump that was building up in the Colorado Rockies and would hit us Friday afternoon.
Based on those advanced warnings many southeast Minnesota schools closed the doors for the day as a precaution.
Byron public schools dismissed early for K-5 at 12:40 p.m. and grades 6-12 were released at 1 p.m.

Whenever a business does something for the first time, there's a great chance of failure.
Dodge County Independent opened its doors to an open house at our new office location hoping that folks from Dodge County and Byron might show up to view our new office space, and celebrate Christmas in Kasson.

Communities all over Dodge County are gearing up to celebrate Christmas — the birth of the Messiah, Jesus Christ. Kasson and Mantorville are marking the kick off with Christmas in Kasson and Christmas in Mantorville on Saturday, Dec. 4.
In Kasson Santa’s Parade gets underway at 8:30 a.m. at the KM Community Education building and ending at the Kasson Fire Station at 9:30 a.m. where pictures with Santa until 10 a.m.

Dogged tenacity proves that a perfect record is not a pass that allows a person or a team to claim victory when facing a lesser opponent with a blemished record.
Kasson-Mantorville’s KOMETS proved that last Thursday night at US Bank Stadium when they took on the undefeated Becker Bulldogs in Minnesota State High School League semifinal action.