Sonja Trom Eayrs has never been known to shy away from controversy. And with the upcoming release of a book targeting an industry she has battled for years, she’s preparing for more squabbling that will likely take place.
The impetus behind the book, “Dodge County, Incorporated: Big Ag and the Undoing of Rural America,” centers on what has happened to her family farm outside of Blooming Prairie over the past few decades.

As many communities across the State, including in Southern Minnesota, are navigating the impacts of the recent storms, which brought inches of rain to Dodge County, Kasson City Administrator Tim Ibisch said the city’s “infrastructure generally performed well during the most recent rain events.”

For the second straight year the Dodge Center Ambulance was recognized by the Minnesota Emergency Medical Services Regulatory Board.

For several years now, the city of Claremont has been offering an “empty lot program.” The city acquired nine lots from a development that did not materialize and has been trying to encourage people to take the lots and build affordable homes on them.

There was a special visitor at the Friday story time last week at the Kasson Public Library.
Munchkin, a miniature horse who also is affected by dwarfism, visited with the children while his owner, Amanda Peters of Zumbrota, read a story “authored” by Munchkin,

Whether you’re at a cafe, by the pool or on vacation, summer is the time for a good book.
David Greenfield, library director of the Kasson Public Library, said his favorite summer reading spot is on his front porch. That’s where you’ll currently find him curled up after library hours with “Black Magic,” the sixth book in the Erin O’Reilly Mysteries by Steven Henry.