The Dodge County Sheriff’s Chaplains hosted their 1st Annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Event Saturday afternoon at The Studio on Main Street in Kasson.
The event featured a silent auction; three live bands drew more than 100 attendees who came to support Dodge County’s law enforcement personnel.

The MTC Spring Comedy show, “The Outsider,” by Paul Slade Smith, directed by Madeline Sarasio Meyer, will open April 10 at the Mantorville Opera House.
The show runs through April 26. Show times are on Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m, Sunday at 2 p.m.

Kasson City Administrator Tim Ibisch briefed the city council earlier this month on a proposed bill that would create a levy cap for municipalities.
“This week, Republican lawmakers in the Minnesota Senate unveiled a package of tax relief bills — among those pieces of legislation is a proposal from Sen. Michael Kreun that would blunt the rapid pace of property tax increases,” Ibisch wrote in his report.

It’s been just over two months since agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrived in force in Minnesota — and in Dodge County.
While this region of the state didn’t draw the international headlines and national media coverage that came out of the Twin Cities, it wasn’t without issues.
That troubled Mike Sinner, who knows a thing or two about how members of law enforcement — any law enforcement — should act.

Just when everyone thought the snow was gone for the winter season, a blizzard that swept across southeast Minnesota Sunday and Monday shut down schools, churches, and just about everything else.
By Sunday afternoon, school districts across the area, including Byron, Hayfield, Kasson-Mantorville and Triton, made the call to cancel school on Monday.

After years of debate, Dodge County publisher Rick Bussler is asking a judge to decide whether the Claremont, Dodge Center, West Concord, Kasson, Mantorville, Hayfield Messenger is qualified to print legal notices as an official newspaper.